Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 521 g
Buch, Englisch, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 521 g
ISBN: 978-0-07-283351-5
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education
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* indicates new to this editionPART ONE: THE MEANING OF LIFEPlato (427-347BCE), APOLOGY: "A Life Worth Living"*Chuang-tzu (c. 250 BCE), THE CHUANG-TZU: "Living in Accord with the Tao"Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), MY CONFESSION: "The Inevitability of the Question, 'What is the Aim of Life?'"Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), EXISTENTIALISM AND HUMANISM: "The Human Condition"PART TWO: PHILOSOPHY OF MINDPlato(427-347), PHAEDO: "Do Minds Survive after Death?"*KATHA UPANISHAD (c. 500 BCE): "The Self-God"*QUESTIONS OF KING MILIINDA(c. 100 CE): "The Self in Flux"Lucretius (c. 94-55 BCE), ON THE NATURE OF THINGS: "The Mind as Body"Rene Descartes (1569-1650), MEDITATIONS and THE PASSIONS OF THE SOUL: "The Distinction between Mind and Body"*Anne Conway (1631-1678), THE PRINCIPLES OF THE MOST ANCIENT AND MODERN PHILOSOPHY: "Blurring the Distinction Between Mind and Body"George Berkeley (1685-1753), THREE DIALOGUES BETWEEN HYLAS AND PHILONOUS: "Consciousness, not Matter, the True Reality"*David Hume (1711-1776), TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE: "The Mind as a Bundle of Perceptions"Gilbert Ryle (1900-1976), THE CONCEPT OF MIND: "Descartes' Myth"John Searle (b. 1932), MINDS, BRAINS, AND SCIENCE: "The Mind-Body Problem"PART THREE: PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGIONAnselm (1033-1109), PROSLOGIUM: "The Ontological Argument"Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274), SUMMA THEOLOGICA: "Five Ways of Proving God's Existence"*Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), THOUGHTS: "Waging on Belief in God"*David Hume (1711-1776), AN EQUIRY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING: "The Irrationality of Believing in Miricles"*David Hume (1711-1776), DIALOGUES CONCERNING NATURAL RELIGION: "Against the Design and Cosmological Arguments"*J.L. Mackie (1917-1981), EVIL AND OMNIPOTENCE: "The Logical Problem of Evil"PART FOUR: EPISTEMOLOGYPlato (427-347), THE REPUBLIC: "The Ascent to True Knowledge: The Divided Line and Cave"*Sextus Empiricus (c. 200 CE), OUTLINES OF PYRRHONISM: "The Goals and Methods of Skepticism"Rene Descartes (1569-1650), MEDITATIONS: "Certainty and the Limits of Doubt"John Locke (1632-1704), ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING: "The Origin of All Our Ideas in Experience"*David Hume (1711-1776), ENQUIRY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING, Sections 4 and 5: "Empiricism and the Limits of Knowledge"Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON: "How Knowledge is Possible"William James (1842-1910), PRAGMATISM: A NEW NAME FOR SOME OLD WAYS OF THINKING: "Pragmatism's Conception of Truth"Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY: "Appearance and Reality"Arthur Eddington (1882-1944), THE NATURE OF THE PHYSICAL WORLD: "Common Sense Knowledge and Scientific Knowledge"*Richard Rorty (b. 1931), PHILOSOPHY AND THE MIRROR OF NATURE: "Critique of Traditional Epistemology"PART FIVE: FREE WILL AND DETERMINISM*Epictetus (c. 50-c. 120), HANDBOOK: "Resigning Oneself to Fate"*David Hume (1711-1776), ENQUIRY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING: "The Argument for Determinism"*Thomas Reid (1710-1796), ESSAYS ON THE ACTIVE POWERS OF MAN: "The Argument for Free Will from Common Sense Beliefs"William James (1842-1919), THE DILEMMA OF DETERMINISM: "How Can We Explain Judgements of Regret"John Searle (b. 1932), MINDS, BRAINS, AND SCIENCE: "The Freedom of the Will"PART SIX: ETHICS*Mencius (390-305 BCE) and Hsun-tzu (298-238 BCE), THE MENCIUS and THE HSUN-TZU: "Is Human Nature Inherently Good or Evil?"Plato (427-347 BCE), EUTHYPHRO: "Does God Create Morality?"Aristotle (384-322 BCE), NICHOMACHEAN ETHICS: "Morality and Virtue"*Epicurus (341-271 BCE), LETTER TO MENOECEUS: "Pleasure and Life's Aim"Immanual Kant (1724-1804), FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSICS OF MORALS: "The Categorical Imperative"John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), UTILITARIANISM: "Utilitarianism: Basing Morality on Consequences"Friederich Nietzsche (1844-1900), BEYOND G