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A Very Short Introduction
Edward Craig
ISBN: 9780192854216
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Edition: illustrated edition
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How ought we to live? What really exists? How do we know? This lively and engaging book is the ideal introduction for anyone who has ever been puzzled by what philosophy is or what it is for. Edward Craig argues that philosophy is not an activity from another planet: learning about it is just a matter of broadening and deepening what most of us do already. He shows that philosophy is no mere intellectual pastime: thinkers such as Plato…
How ought we to live? What really exists? How do we know? This book introduces important themes in ethics, knowledge, and the self, via readings from Plato, Hume, Descartes, Hegel, Darwin, and Buddhist writers. It emphasizes throughout the point of doing philosophy, explains how different areas of philosophy are related, and explores the contexts in which philosophy was and is done.
| ISBN | 0192854216 | | Volumes | 1 | | ISBN13 | 9780192854216
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 123 | | Publisher | Oxford University Press | | Published in | Oxford | | Imprint | Oxford Paperbacks | | Series ISSN | 55 | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Very Short Introductions | | Publication date | 21 Feb 2002 | | Height (mm) | 176 | | Library of Congress | 2002283596 | | Width (mm) | 113 | | DEWEY | 100 | | Spine width (mm) | 9 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Academic level | General | | Pages | 144 | | Alternative ISBN | 9789626343449 |
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| | | List of illustrations | | | | 1 | | Philosophy: A very short introduction | | 1 | | 2 | | What should I do? Plato's Crito | | 11 | | 3 | | How do we know? Hume's Of Miracles | | 24 | | 4 | | What am I? An unknown Buddhist on the self: King Milinda's chariot | | 35 | | 5 | | Some themes | | 45 | | 6 | | Of 'isms' | | 61 | | 7 | | Some more high spots: A personal selection | | 74 | | 8 | | What's in it for whom? | | 100 | | | | Bibliography: Where to go next | | 119 | | | | Index | | 127 |
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