Being Philosophical guides readers through the perplexing initial moments of meeting philosophy by taking them inside philosophical thinking as an activity.
In a beginner-friendly voice, Stephen Hetherington elucidates how intellectual ‘tools’ from a diversity of traditions, East and West, can enable us to start doing philosophy – that is, to think ‘from scratch’ in a philosophical way. He explores many classical topics and issues that have preoccupied philosophers from Plato, early Buddhists and Confucius to Karl Marx and beyond – selves, souls, identity, will, knowing and reasoning, acting morally, and more – and presents possible methods for responding to different theories.
Inviting and conversational, Being Philosophical is the book needed by every new philosophy student – or anyone wondering whether they might want to explore the world of philosophy.
Inhoudsopgave
Extended Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Who Are You?
2 Philosophical Reading and Writing
3 How Do You Know?
4 Philosophical Reasoning
5 How Should You Act?
6 Philosophical Viewing
Index
Over de auteur
Stephen Hetherington is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales.
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