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Driving to California : an unconventional introduction to philosophy /

"We are all philosophers. We make moral decisions, worry over what is the best thing to do, and contemplate where our lives are going. In a series of original and entertaining sketches, short stories, plays and his own 'philosophical autobiography' Professor Colin Radford expounds the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Radford, Colin, D. Phil
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©1996.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: What is philosophy?
  • Part one: The examined life
  • Part two: Work(s). Knowledge, by examples
  • Life, flesh and animate behaviour: a reappraisal of the argument from analogy
  • Driving to California
  • On the positive desiribility of evil
  • Morality, utilitarianism and the noble art
  • Fakes
  • How can we be moved by the fate of Anna Karenina?
  • Part three: Play(s). The unexpected examination
  • The angel
  • Ronald, the reluctant rhinoceros
  • The appointment
  • The seminar.