Philosophy: Paradox and Discovery - Brossura

Shipka, Thomas A; Minton, Arthur J

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ISBN 10: 0070425256 ISBN 13: 9780070425255

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 1995

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PHILOSOPHY: PARADOX AND DISCOVERY, 4/e presents philosophy as an immediate, vital, and challenging process of discovery. The text has been specifically designed to help students evaluate their beliefs on basic issues and to see philosophy as a process of discovering and examining the paradoxes inherent in those issues. The forty-one readings in PHILOSOPHY: PARADOX AND DISCOVERY are drawn from classic and contemporary sources.

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Contenuti:

Preface

Introduction: What is Philosophy?

The Search for Bedrock: Paradox

The Search for System: Discovery

Philosophy and Science

Value of Philosophy

PART 1: PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION

The Paradoxes of Religion

CHAPTER 1: IS THERE A GOD?

Problem Introduction

Anselm of Canterbury The Ontological Argument for the Existence of God (from the PROSLOGION)

Thomas Aquina The Five Ways (from SUMMA THEOLOGICA)

Thomas Jefferson God as the Designer of the Universe (from a Letter to John Adams)

Paul Kurt A Critique of Belief in God (from THE NEW SKEPTICISM)

CHAPTER 2: THE PROBLEM OF EVIL

Problem Introduction

Mark Twain Letters From The Earth

John Hick Free Will, Moral Growth, and Evil (from THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION)

J. L. Mackie Evil and Omnipotence

CHAPTER 3: FAITH AND REASON

Problem Introduction

W. K. Clifford The Ethics of Belief

William James The Will to Believe

PART 2: KNOWLEDGE

The Paradoxes of Appearance

CHAPTER 4: SKEPTICISM AND THE SELF

Problem Introduction

Rene Descarti Meditations I and (from MEDITATIONS ON FIRST PHILOSOPHY)

Gilbert Ryle The Myth of the Ghost in the Machine (from THE CONCEPT OF MIND)

Christopher Bach Evidence Suggestive of Reincarnation (from LIFECYCLES)

CHAPTER 5: PERCEPTION AND KNOWLEDGE

Problem Introduction

Plato The Role of Perception in Knowing (from THEAETETUS and THE REPUBLIC)

George Berkeley Perception and Matter (from THREE DIALOGUES BETWEEN HYLAS AND PHILONOUS)

David Hume Our Knowledge of Cause and Effect (from AN ENQUIRY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING)

CHAPTER 6: TRUTH

Problem Introduction

William Jame The Pragmatic Test (from PRAGMATISM)

Bertrand Russel Truth as Correspondence: A Reply to James (from PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS)

Brand Blanshard Truth as Coherence (from THE NATURE OF THOUGHT)

PART 3: FREE WILL AND DETERMINIST

The Paradox of Freedom

CHAPTER 7: FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY

Problem Introduction

Clarence Darrow

Leopold and Loe The Crime of Compulsion

Jean-Paul Sartre Existence Precedes Essence

William James The Dilemma of Determinist

Bruce Wallet Freedom Without Responsibility

Sidney Hood Moral Freedom in a Determined World (from THE QUEST FOR BEING)

PART 4: MORALITY

The Paradox of Moral Experience

CHAPTER 8: SOURCES OF MORALITY: RELIGION AND SOCIETY

Problem Introduction

Kai Nielse The Connection Between Morality and Religion

Ruth Benedict Culture and Morality

James Rachel The Challenge of Cultural Relativise (from THE ELEMENTS OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY)

CHAPTER 9: THE SEARCH FOR OBJECTIVITY

Problem Introduction

Aristotle Virtue and Rationality (from NICHOMACHEAN ETHICS)

Immanuel Kan The Categorical Imperative (from FOUNDATIONS OF THE METAPHYSICS OF MORALS)

John Stuart Mill The Greatest Happiness Principle (from UTILITARIANISM)

Ayn Ran The Ethics of Emergencies

Carol Gilligan

Moral Orientation and Moral Development

PART 5: POLITICAL AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY

The Paradoxes of Government

CHAPTER 10: THE LAW AND THE INDIVIDUAL

Problem Introduction

Plato Our Duty to the Law (from THE CRITO)

Martin Luther King, Jr Letter from Birmingham Jail

CHAPTER 11: DEMOCRACY, FASCISM, AND COMMUNIST

Problem Introduction

John Lock Limited Government: The Natural Rights Approach (from THE SECOND TREATISE ON GOVERNMENT)

John Stuart Mill Limited Government: The Utilitarian Approach (from ON LIBERTY)

Carl Cohen Fascist (from FOUR SYSTEMS)

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engel Communist

CHAPTER 12: FUTURE PROSPECTS

Problem Introduction

Roy Weatherford The Need for World Government (from WORLD PEACE AND THE HUMAN FAMILY)

John Hicks World Religions and the Golden Rule (from AN INTERPRETATION OF RELIGION)

Margaret Battin Euthanasia: The Way We Do It. The Way They Do It

Bernard Rollin Animal Production and the New Social Ethic for Animals

FURTHER READING

INDEX OF AUTHORS AND TITLES

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Book by Thomas A Shipka

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• Editore: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0070425256
• ISBN 13: 9780070425255
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 4
• Numero di pagine: 528