Philosophy: A Beginner's Guide

by JennyTeichman (Author), KatherineC.Evans (Author)

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  1995

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  This text provides an introduction to philosophy as it is studied in the English spoken language. It is intended both for the interested lay reader and for anyone faced with the realities of academic philosophy and in need of guidance, reassurance, and a sense of why the subject matters. The authors guide the reader through the most central and important questions of philosophy; the nature of existence, knowledge, freedom, God, morality, politics, science, reason and human purpose. This edition includes two new chapters on Life and Death and Marx and Marxism . Jenny Teichman is the author of The Mind and the Soul , Illegitimacy , Pacificsm and the Just War and Philosophy of the Mind

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  1991

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  This introduction to philosophy sets out to introduce the interested lay reader to the subject, and to provide the student or academic with a justification for studying it. The authors divide the subject into six fields - metaphysics, ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of science, logic and the philosophy of life. They begin with a definition of philosophy as the study of abstract, ultimate and general problems. They then guide the reader through several major philosphical topics such as existence, knowledge, freedom, God morality, politics, science, reason and human purpose.