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020 _a9781305955448 (pbk)
040 _beng
_cLearning Resource Center
_dHoly Name University.
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_a100/So471
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_aSHS 100/So471
521 _aSHS
100 _aSolomon, Robert C.
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245 _aThe big questions :
_ba short introduction to philosophy /
_cRobert C. Solomon, Kathleen M. Higgins.
250 _aTenth edition.
264 _aBoston, Massachusetts, USA :
_bCengage Learning,
_c©2017.
300 _axvii, 446 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c23 cm.
336 _atext.
_btext.
500 _aPrevious editions : 2014, 2010. Includes index.
505 _aPREFACE.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.
546 _aIn English.
650 _aPhilosophy.
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700 _aHiggins, Kathleen M.
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