Thinking philosophically : an invitation to join the great debates / / David Roochnik

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910797906303321
• Autore: Roochnik David
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chichester, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2016; 2016
• ISBN: 1-119-06699-9; 1-119-06697-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (233 p.)
• Collana: New York Academy of Sciences
• Disciplina: 100
• Soggetti: Philosophy; Thought and thinking
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Brief Contents -- Contents -- Prologue -- Chapter 1 An Introduction to Philosophy -- What Makes Philosophers Tick? -- Five Questions -- Reading Great Books -- An Introduction to Socrates -- Note -- Chapter 2 Alone or With Others? -- The Question -- Rousseau's Answer -- The State of Nature -- Society -- Aristotle's Answer -- Community Is Natural -- Teleology -- By Nature Political -- Animals with Logos -- By Nature Unequal -- Resolving the Dispute: Social-Political or Solitary? -- Notes -- Chapter 3 What Should We Do? -- The Question -- Mill's Answer -- What Is Happiness? -- Utilitarianism Is Crude -- Utilitarianism Is Selfish -- Utilitarianism Becomes Moral Fanaticism -- Utilitarians Are Frigid -- Utilitarianism Is Expedient -- Utilitarianism Is Unjust -- Utilitarianism Is Fantasy -- Kant's Answer -- The Good Will -- Consequences and Morality -- Duty -- Universality -- Egalitarianism -- Ordinary Moral Intuitions -- The Dear Self -- Resolving the Dispute: Consequences or Duty? -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Whom Should We Emulate? (1) -- The Question -- Aristotle's Answer -- Happiness and Excellence -- Precision in Ethics -- Character -- Aristotle on Climate Change -- Nietzsche's Answer -- Resolving the Dispute: Virtue or Power? -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Whom Should We Emulate? (2) -- The Question -- Confucius's Answer -- Filial Piety -- Ritual -- Leadership -- Teleology ; -- What if the Father Is a Bad Guy? -- Lao-Tzu's Answer -- Anti-Teleology -- Water -- Paradox -- Non-Action (Wu Wei) -- Resolving the Dispute: Superior Man or Child? -- Notes -- Chapter 6 What Do You Know? -- The Question -- Descartes's Answer -- Descartes's Education -- The Cogito -- The Existence of God -- Masters and Possessors of Nature -- Hume's Answer -- Ideas from Impressions -- Principles of Association -- Skeptical Doubts.; Skeptical Solution of Skeptical Doubts -- Hume on Global Warming -- Resolving the Dispute: Rationalism or Empiricism? -- Notes -- Chapter 7 Being in Time -- The Question -- Saint Augustine's Answer -- Time and the Eternal -- The Cry of the Present -- The Subjective Reality of Time -- Reason to Pray -- The Nature of Sin -- Digression 1: Pythagoras -- Digression 2: Platonic Forms -- Nietzsche (on Heraclitus) on Time -- Becoming -- Play -- Resolving the Dispute: Being or Becoming? -- Notes -- Epilogue -- Works Cited -- 1 An Introduction to Philosophy -- 2 Alone or With Others? -- 3 What Should We Do? -- 4 Whom Should We Emulate? (1) -- 5 Whom Should We Emulate? (2) -- 6 What Do You Know? -- 7 Being in Time -- Index -- EULA.