An Introduction to Philosophy,Year 1989 - Hardcover

An Introduction to Philosophy

Contents 1 Introduction 2 Common thought science and reflective thought 3 Problems touching the external world 4 Sensations and things 5 Appearances and realities 6 Problems touching the mind 7 Mind and body 8 How we know there are other minds 9 Other problems of world and mind 10 Some types of philosophical theory 11 Realism and idealism 12 Monism and dualism 13 Rationalism empiricism criticism and critical empiricism 14 The philosophical sciences 15 Psychology 16 Ethics and aesthetics 17 Metaphysics 18 The philosophy of religion 19 Philosophy and the other sciences 20 Why we should study the history of philosophy 21 Some practical admonitions Index An investigation into the origin of words however interesting in itself can tell us little of the uses to which words are put after they have come into being If we turn from etymology to history and review the labors of the men whom the world has agreed to call philosophers we are struck by the fact that those who head the list chronologically appear to have been occupied with crude physical speculations with attempts to guess what the world is made out of rather than with that somewhat vague something that we call philosophy today jacket 305 pp. Artikel-Nr. 98682

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