Pathways in Philosophy

An Introductory Guide with Readings
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-19-513131-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 574 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1057 g

This introduction to philosophy combines the two approaches most commonly employed to teach philosophy to college freshmen - the problems approach and the historical approach. It includes chapters on the major problems or questions in philosophy - what we can know, what exists, the mind-body problem, the existence of God, what is moral, etc. - and it addresses these problems by focusing each chapter on a particular text by a major philosopher.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jacquette, Dale

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- Introduction: A Compass and a Map

- PART ONE: METAPHYSICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY

- 1: The Soul and its Wisdom

- Plato's Meno

- 2: Substance and the Changing World

- Aristotle's Metaphysics

- 3: Universals, Particulars, and the Concept of Truth

- Ockham's Summa Logicae I

- 4: Reason, Knowledge, and Certainty

- Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy

- 5: Existence and Nature of God

- Berkeley's Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous

- PART TWO; ETHICS AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

- 6: Moral Rights, Obligations and Responsibility

- Kant's Grounding of the Metaphysics of Morals

- 7: Consequences of Actions in Ethical Conduct

- Mill's Utilitarianism

- 8: Individual Values and the Will to Power

- Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality

- 9: Philosophical Analysis of the Concept of Good

- Moore's Principia Ethica

- 10: Justice and the Social Good in Political Decision Making

- Rawl's A Theory of Justice

Über Autor(innen)

(Professor of Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University, USA)