Philosophy: The Power of Ideas, Brief
by Moore, Brooke Noel; Bruder, Kenneth; Fox, EllenEdition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1995-01-13
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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This brief, inexpensive paperback version of the second edition of Moore and Bruder' s popular introductory text provides a unique topical/historical overview of each major subfield of philosophy.
Table of Contents
1. Dangerous Stuff 2. Metaphysics and Epistemology: Beginnings 3. Metaphysics and Epistemology: The Hellenistic and Christian Eras 4. Metaphysics and Epistemology: The Modern Period 5. Metaphysics and Epistemology: The 18th and 19th Centuries 6. Ethics 7. Political Philosophy 8. Philosophy of Religion 9. Some Current Issues in Philosophy 10. More Current Issues in Philosophy 11. Feminist Philosophy 12. The Continental Philosophers 13. Eastern Philosophy Brief Selections from Primary Works / From Plato, the Republic / From Epicurus, “Epicurus to Menoecceus” / From Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism / From St. Anselm, Proslogion / From René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy / From Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil / From Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism and Humanism / From John Searle, Minds, Brains, and Science / From James Rachels, “Killing and Starving to Death” / From Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex Appendix 1: Logic Appendix 2: Truth Appendix 3: Knowledge Glossary Index
3. Metaphysics and Epistemology: The Hellenistic and Christian Eras 4. Metaphysics and Epistemology: The Modern Period 5. Metaphysics and Epistemology: The 18th and 19th Centuries 6. Ethics 7. Political Philosophy 8. Philosophy of Religion 9. Some Current Issues in Philosophy 10. More Current Issues in Philosophy 11. Feminist Philosophy 12. The Continental Philosophers 13. Eastern Philosophy Brief Selections from Primary Works / From Plato, the Republic / From Epicurus, “Epicurus to Menoecceus” / From Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism / From St. Anselm, Proslogion / From René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy / From Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil / From Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism and Humanism / From John Searle, Minds, Brains, and Science / From James Rachels, “Killing and Starving to Death” / From Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex Appendix 1: Logic Appendix 2: Truth Appendix 3: Knowledge Glossary Index
5. Metaphysics and Epistemology: The 18th and 19th Centuries 6. Ethics 7. Political Philosophy 8. Philosophy of Religion 9. Some Current Issues in Philosophy 10. More Current Issues in Philosophy 11. Feminist Philosophy 12. The Continental Philosophers 13. Eastern Philosophy Brief Selections from Primary Works / From Plato, the Republic / From Epicurus, “Epicurus to Menoecceus” / From Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism / From St. Anselm, Proslogion / From René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy / From Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil / From Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism and Humanism / From John Searle, Minds, Brains, and Science / From James Rachels, “Killing and Starving to Death” / From Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex Appendix 1: Logic Appendix 2: Truth Appendix 3: Knowledge Glossary Index
7. Political Philosophy 8. Philosophy of Religion 9. Some Current Issues in Philosophy 10. More Current Issues in Philosophy 11. Feminist Philosophy 12. The Continental Philosophers 13. Eastern Philosophy Brief Selections from Primary Works / From Plato, the Republic / From Epicurus, “Epicurus to Menoecceus” / From Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism / From St. Anselm, Proslogion / From René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy / From Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil / From Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism and Humanism / From John Searle, Minds, Brains, and Science / From James Rachels, “Killing and Starving to Death” / From Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex Appendix 1: Logic Appendix 2: Truth Appendix 3: Knowledge Glossary Index
9. Some Current Issues in Philosophy 10. More Current Issues in Philosophy 11. Feminist Philosophy 12. The Continental Philosophers 13. Eastern Philosophy Brief Selections from Primary Works / From Plato, the Republic / From Epicurus, “Epicurus to Menoecceus” / From Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism / From St. Anselm, Proslogion / From René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy / From Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil / From Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism and Humanism / From John Searle, Minds, Brains, and Science / From James Rachels, “Killing and Starving to Death” / From Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex Appendix 1: Logic Appendix 2: Truth Appendix 3: Knowledge Glossary Index
11. Feminist Philosophy 12. The Continental Philosophers 13. Eastern Philosophy Brief Selections from Primary Works / From Plato, the Republic / From Epicurus, “Epicurus to Menoecceus” / From Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism / From St. Anselm, Proslogion / From René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy / From Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil / From Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism and Humanism / From John Searle, Minds, Brains, and Science / From James Rachels, “Killing and Starving to Death” / From Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex Appendix 1: Logic Appendix 2: Truth Appendix 3: Knowledge Glossary Index
13. Eastern Philosophy Brief Selections from Primary Works / From Plato, the Republic / From Epicurus, “Epicurus to Menoecceus” / From Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism / From St. Anselm, Proslogion / From René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy / From Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil / From Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism and Humanism / From John Searle, Minds, Brains, and Science / From James Rachels, “Killing and Starving to Death” / From Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex Appendix 1: Logic Appendix 2: Truth Appendix 3: Knowledge Glossary Index
Appendix 1: Logic Appendix 2: Truth Appendix 3: Knowledge Glossary Index
Appendix 3: Knowledge Glossary Index
Index
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