[Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture 05] • Philosophy by Kaye, Sharon -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Dedication About the Author Title Contents Introduction 1 Plato and justice

Do the right thing The Forms Idealism The Allegory of the Cave The good life Love Justice?

2 Aristotle and friendship

Seize the day The four causes Teleology The golden mean Three types of friendship Logic Realism

3 Anselm and God as supreme being

The Age of Faith The ontological proof Defining God Gaunilo’s response Two kinds of existence? The problem of evil Defence of God

4 Aquinas and God as cosmic creator

The consolation of philosophy Cosmological proof The Big Bang The everlasting universe The teleological proof Evolution Anthropic considerations

5 Descartes and the soul

Think again The method of doubt The malignant demon The cogito God and the world The Cartesian circle Dualism Qualia

6 Hobbes and freedom

You’ve got to want it Determinism Human animals Compatibilism The state of nature Absolute sovereign The social contract

7 Locke and knowledge

Shipshape The problem of personal identity The memory criterion Personal responsibility Empiricism Primary and secondary qualities Berkeley’s slippery slope

8 Hume and causality

That wasn’t supposed to happen The problem of induction What is a cause? Relations of ideas vs. matters of fact Miracles The bundle theory of personal identity

9 Kant and duty

Liar, liar, pants on fire! An epistemological compromise Transcendental idealism Deontology The categorical imperative (first formulation) Applying the categorical imperative The categorical imperative (second formulation) Good will

10 Mill and happiness

Do the right thing! Utilitarianism Hedonism Lazy Town The concern for quality Acts vs. rules Liberty and equality

11 Nietzsche and meaning

You better love your life The will to power Master–slave morality Zarathustra Übermensch Nihilism/perspectivalism Continental philosophy

12 Wittgenstein and language

Organic machines The mystery of language Logic Analytic philosophy The builder’s game Meaning as use Family resemblance Behaviourism

13 Sartre and existence

The choice and the given The problem of human existence Nothingness Free will Bad faith Existentialism The fundamental project First candidate: relationships Second candidate: political activism Third candidate: art

14 Dewey and truth

The secret of learning Art Technology Nature Truth Pragmatism Education

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