04402nam 2200637 450 991079790630332120231110225610.01-119-06699-91-119-06697-2(CKB)3710000000576835(EBL)4356687(SSID)ssj0001601078(PQKBManifestationID)16310812(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001601078(PQKBWorkID)12618562(PQKB)11768932(MiAaPQ)EBC4356687(DLC) 2015032355(Au-PeEL)EBL4356687(CaPaEBR)ebr11152620(CaONFJC)MIL892896(OCoLC)918986682(MiAaPQ)EBC7104401(Au-PeEL)EBL7104401(EXLCZ)99371000000057683520160223h20162016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThinking philosophically an invitation to join the great debates /David RoochnikChichester, England :Wiley Blackwell,2016.20161 online resource (233 p.)New York Academy of Sciences Description based upon print version of record.1-119-06707-3 1-119-06725-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.New York Academy of Sciences PhilosophyThought and thinkingPhilosophy.Thought and thinking.100Roochnik David309464MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910797906303321Thinking philosophically3683980UNINA