Plato's Sun : : An Introduction to Philosophy / / Andrew Lawless.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. What is Philosophy?
- 2. Metaphysics: The Search for the God's-Eye View
- 3. Wittgenstein's Ladder: The Modern Reaction to Metaphysics
- 4. Epistemology: The Ghost in the Metaphysical Machine?
- 5. Logic and its Place in the Universe
- 6. Ethics: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful
- 7. 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'
- Notes
- Glossary of Names
- Glossary of Key Terms
- Glossary of Greek Terms
- Suggested Readings
- Index