The big questions : (Record no. 11119)
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| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 2016951800 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781305955448 (pbk) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Transcribing agency | HNU |
| Description conventions | rda |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Edition number | 23 |
| Classification number | 100 So47 |
| Placement Code | GC |
| Item number | 2017 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Solomon, Robert C. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 14100 |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The big questions : |
| Remainder of title | a short introduction to philosophy / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Robert C. Solomon, Kathleen M. Higgins. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | Tenth edition. |
| 264 ## - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Boston, Massachusetts, USA : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Cengage Learning, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | ©2017. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xvii, 446 pages : |
| Other physical details | illustrations ; |
| Dimensions | 23 cm. |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text. |
| Content type code | text. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Previous editions : 2014, 2010. Includes index. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | PREFACE.Doing Philosophy. A Little Logic. Closing Questions. Key Words. Works Cited. Other Suggested Readings.1. PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTIONS.What is Philosophy? Opening Questions. Key Words. Works Cited. Other Suggested Readings.2. THE MEANING OF LIFE.Opening Questions. What Kind of Meaning? The Meanings of Life. Closing Questions. Key Words. Works Cited. Other Suggested Readings.3. GOD.Opening Questions. Believing in God, Gods and Goddesses. The Traditional Western Conceptions of God. The Problem of Evil. Faith and Reason: Grounds for Believing. Religious Tolerance: Ritual, Tradition, and Spirituality. Doubts. Closing Questions. Key Words. Works Cited. Other Suggested Readings.4. THE NATURE OF REALITY.Opening Questions. The Real World. What is Most Real? The First Metaphysicians. Early Nonphysical Views of Reality. Plato's Forms. Aristotle's Metaphysics. Mind and Metaphysics. Idealism. Teleology. Metaphysics and the Everyday World. Closing Questions. Key Words. Works Cited. Other Suggested Readings.5. THE SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH.Opening Questions. What is True? Two Kinds of Truth. Rationalism and Empiricism. The Presuppositions of Knowledge. Skepticism. Knowledge, Truth, and Science. The Nature of Truth. Rationality. Subjective Truth and the Problem of Relativism. Closing Questions. Key Words. Works Cited. Other Suggested Readings.6. SELF.Opening Questions. The Essential Self. The Self and Its Emotions. The Egocentric Predicament. The Mind-Body Problem. Other Theories of the Self. Closing Questions. Key Words. Works Cited. Other Suggested Readings.7. FREEDOM.Opening Questions. Freedom and the Good Life. Free Will and Determinism. Closing Questions. Key Words. Works Cited. Other Suggested Readings.8. MORALITY AND THE GOOD LIFE.Opening Questions. Moral Philosophy. Pleasure and the Good Life. The Place of Self-Interest: Egoism Versus Altruism. Morality: Relative or Absolute? Morality and Theories of Morality. Duty-Defined Morality. Consequentialist Theories. Aristotle and the Ethics of Virtue. Feminist Ethics: The Ethics of Care. Closing Questions. Key Words. Works Cited. Other Suggested Readings.9. JUSTICE AND THE GOOD SOCIETY.Opening Questions. Morals and Society. The Nature of Society. Who Should Rule? The Question of Legitimacy. Anarchism, the Free Market, and the Need for Government. What is Justice? The Meaning of Equality. The Origins of Justice and Social Contract. Justice Beyond Our Borders. Rights and the Self. Justice Denied: The Problem of Race. Sexual Politics: The Rise of Feminist Philosophy. Closing Questions. Key Words. Works Cited. Other Suggested Readings.10. BEAUTY.Opening Questions. Aesthetics, Beauty and Truth. Enjoying Tragedy. Arguing About Taste, Art, Ethics, and Religion. Why Is It Art? The Aesthetics of Popular Culture. Closing Questions. Key Words. Works Cited. Other Suggested Readings.11. NON-WESTERN PHILOSOPHY.Opening Questions. Beyond the Western Tradition. The Challenges of Broadening Our Horizons. Other Cultures, Other Philosophies. Closing Questions. Key Words. Works Cited. Other Suggested Readings.Appendix A: Writing Philosophy.Opening Questions. The Rules of Good Writing in Philosophy. Indirect Styles. Works Cited. Other Suggested Readings.Appendix B: Deductive Logic Valued Argument Forms.Works Cited.Appendix C: Common Informal Fallacies.Informal Fallacies. Works Cited.Glossary.Index. |
| 521 ## - TARGET AUDIENCE NOTE | |
| Target audience note | Senior High School |
| Source | Humanities and Social Sciences (HUMSS) |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE | |
| Language note | In English. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Philosophy. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 5939 |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Higgins, Kathleen M. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 14101 |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Classification part | 100-199 |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Date last checked out | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | GC | Senior High School Library | Senior High School Library | General Circulation Section | 03/13/2018 | Library Fund | 4 | GC 100 So47 2017 | SHS000214 | 11/27/2024 | 11/27/2024 | 07/02/2018 | Books |
