Inroads: Paths in Ancient and Modern Western PhilosophyUniversity of Toronto Press, 01/01/2003 - 666 من الصفحات This unique introduction to philosophy is designed as a companion volume to a number of classic philosophical texts widely used in first- and upper-year philosophy courses. While remaining clear and readable, Inroads provides detailed analyses of fundamental issues in metaphysics and morals: the existence of God, the meaning of death, and the elements and definitions of the 'good life' for humankind. Combining a historical with a systematic approach, Murray Miles's work straddles the customary divisions between ancient and modern, and Anglo-American and continental European philosophy. In each of its five main parts - in turn, focusing on Socrates, Plato, Descartes, Hume, and Sartre - Inroads discusses, from a philosophical rather than a religious or scientific perspective, those questions that make up the common inheritance of academic philosophy and ethico-religious thought. Other features include a detailed glossary of philosophical terms, suggestions for further reading, and questions for reflection and review. Inroads is a useful text for first-year undergraduate courses or, equally, a sound resource for the general reader looking for a good grounding in philosophy and its history. |
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Problems Periods Genres | 3 |
Philosophy and Higher Education | 24 |
The Order of Knowing | 37 |
The Order of Being | 47 |
Philosophy and MythicoReligious Thought | 66 |
Philosophy and Science | 92 |
Philosophy and Logic | 110 |
Recommended readings and references | 145 |
DESCARTES AND THE ROAD TO CERTAINTY | 361 |
Subjectivism and Dualism | 363 |
Doubt and Certainty | 369 |
Mind and Matter | 383 |
Truth and Circularity | 406 |
The Existence of God | 424 |
Man and World | 456 |
Recommended readings and references | 482 |
Questions for reflection discussion and review | 146 |
SOCRATES AND THE ROAD TO WISDOM | 147 |
Sources and Outline | 149 |
Life and Character | 158 |
Defence of the Philosophic Life | 187 |
Socratic Piety | 204 |
Virtue and Happiness | 225 |
Concluding Appraisal | 248 |
Recommended readings and references | 255 |
Questions for reflection discussion and review | 256 |
PLATO AND THE ROAD TO REALITY | 257 |
Doctrines and Influences | 259 |
New Defence of the Philosophic Life | 267 |
Soul Death Immortality | 275 |
Cyclical Argument | 287 |
Recollection Argument | 295 |
Affinity Argument | 309 |
The Metaphysics of Form | 318 |
Concluding Appraisal | 350 |
Recommended readings and references | 359 |
Questions for reflection discussion and review | 360 |
Questions for reflection discussion and review | 484 |
HUME AND THE ROAD BACK TO COMMON LIFE | 485 |
Philosophical Works and Outlook | 487 |
An Empiricist Critique of Reason | 497 |
The Unmaking of Miracles | 517 |
The Undoing of Divine Justice | 536 |
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Questions for reflection discussion and review | 554 |
SARTRE AND THE ROAD TO FREEDOM | 557 |
Life Work and Basic Philosophical Outlook | 559 |
Atheistic Humanism | 568 |
Criticisms of Existentialism | 576 |
Human Reality | 592 |
Will and Emotion | 601 |
Decisionism | 610 |
Recommended readings and references | 629 |
GLOSSARY OF PHILOSOPHICAL TERMS | 637 |
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