The Study of PhilosophyRowman & Littlefield, 2001 - 413 pages The Study of Philosophy provides a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the history of philosophy in the West. S. Morris Engel walks the reader through the story of philosophy, starting with its nature and origins; progressing to the central questions emerging from its four main branches of logic, metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics; and culminating in an overview of modern and contemporary movements, most notably the philosophy of Wittgenstein and the existentialism of Kirkegaard, Nietzsche, and Sartre. Carefully crafted supplements enhance the volume, demonstrating for students the relevance of philosophy to the world and to themselves. A Collegiate Press Book |
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Contents
How Philosophy and Religion Differ | 7 |
You Asked About PhilosophyWilliam Lyons | 13 |
It Began Here | 20 |
The Problem of Becoming | 28 |
Ionian Science Before SocratesF M Cornford | 40 |
And so I go about the world | 51 |
Socratess Chroniclers | 58 |
ApologyPlato | 84 |
The Will to BelieveWilliam James | 210 |
The Rationalists | 218 |
The Empiricists | 228 |
The Kantian Synthesis | 239 |
Meditations on First PhilosophyRené Descartes | 261 |
Platos Theory of FormsA E Taylor | 271 |
Aristotles Theory of Ethics | 279 |
Kants Theory of Ethics | 288 |
PHILOSOPHYS METHOD | 103 |
Logic as the Study of Argument | 109 |
Eliminating Verbiage | 115 |
Distinguishing Deductive and Inductive Arguments | 122 |
Common Fallacies | 132 |
The Fallacies of Presumption | 139 |
Fallacies of Relevance | 150 |
PHILOSOPHYS MAIN QUESTIONS | 161 |
The Design Without | 167 |
The Idea of God | 175 |
Excerpts from Dialogues Concerning Natural ReligionDavid Hume | 198 |
The Utilitarian Theory | 295 |
The Emotive Theory | 306 |
Goodness and Happiness | 312 |
Nichomachean EthicsAristotle | 318 |
MODERN DIRECTIONS | 333 |
Existentialism | 359 |
Wittgenstein Existentialism and The History of Philosophy | 365 |
Existentialism and HumanismJeanPaul Sartre | 374 |
The Value of PhilosophyBertrand Russell | 392 |
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