Plato's Sun : An Introduction to Philosophy /
Writing an introductory text for philosophy is an exceedingly difficult task. The discipline has spent a century or more in existential crisis with the attack on metaphysics dating back at least to Nietzsche and carried forward in different ways by Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and Derrida, to name a few...
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Toronto, Ontario :
University of Toronto Press,
2005.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- What is philosophy?
- Metaphysics: the search for the god's-eye view
- Wittgenstein's ladder: the modern reaction to metaphysics
- Epistemology: the ghost in the metaphysical machine?
- Logic and its place in the universe
- Ethics: the good, the bad, and the beautiful
- Philosophy and language: the house of being
- Appendix 1. The twelve-coin puzzle and the paradox of the heap
- Appendix 2. Ethics and the 'other.'