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The primary purpose of philosophy is to help us better understand the critical issues in life. Sadly, in this modern world we often relegate philosophy to the ivory tower and to dusty tomes forgotten on the library shelf. With The Relevance of Philosophy to Life, eminent American philosopher John La...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lachs, John
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 1995.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Philosophische Anthropologie.
Philosophische Anthropologie
Philosophy, American.
Philosophical anthropology.
Philosophy, American > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Series Editor's Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Relevance of Philosophy to Life (starting p. 3)
  • 2 Reflections on Current French Philosophy (starting p. 11)
  • 3 Relativism and Its Benefits (starting p. 19)
  • 4 Values and Relations (starting p. 29)
  • 5 How Relative Are Values? or Are Nazis Irrational and Why the Answer Matters (starting p. 40)
  • 6 A Community of Psyches: Santayana on Society (starting p. 50)
  • 7 Dogmatist in Disguise (starting p. 62)
  • 8 Grand History and Ordinary Life (starting p. 70)
  • 9 Aristotle and Dewey on the Rat Race (starting p. 83)
  • 10 Violence as Response to Alienation (starting p. 98)
  • 11 Persons and Technology (starting p. 113)
  • 12 Professional Advertising in an Ignorant World (starting p. 126)
  • 13 Education and the Power of the State: Reconceiving Some Problems and Their Solutions (starting p. 133) / John Lachs, Shirley M. Lachs
  • 14 Law and the Importance of Feelings (starting p. 152)
  • 15 Questions of Life and Death (starting p. 163)
  • 16 Humane Treatment and the Treatment of Humans (starting p. 170)
  • 17 Resuscitation (starting p. 176)
  • 18 Active Euthanasia (starting p. 181)
  • 19 When Abstract Moralizing Runs Amok (starting p. 188)
  • 20 On Selling Organs (starting p. 195)
  • 21 Personal Relations Between Physicians and Patients (starting p. 199)
  • 22 The Element of Choice in Criteria of Death (starting p. 209)
  • 23 Human Natures (starting p. 228)
  • 24 The Philosophical Significance of Psychological Differences Among Humans (starting p. 243)
  • 25 Persons and Different Kinds of Persons (starting p. 254)
  • Epilogue: To Have and To Be (starting p. 265)
  • Index (starting p. 273)

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