Plato's sun : an introduction to philosophy /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lawless, Andrew (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Philosophy > Introductions.
Philosophie > Introductions.
PHILOSOPHY > Essays.
PHILOSOPHY > Reference.
Philosophy.
Introductions.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.'

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