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Philosophy : key texts / Julian Baggini and Gareth Southwell.

By: Baggini, JulianMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012Edition: Second revised editionDescription: ix, 204 pages ; 23 cmISBN: 9780230296619 (hardback); 9780230296626 (paperback)Subject(s): Philosophy | PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General | PHILOSOPHY / General | PHILOSOPHY / Movements / GeneralDDC classification: 100

Contents:

Styles of reading Arguments f Assessing premises Inferences The archaeology of arguments Arguments within arguments Back to style The principle of charity Six key texts 1 Plato: Republic (c.375 BC) Background The text Preliminary discussion: What is justice? The basis of society Education Rulers and auxiliaries Society and the individual Women, marriage and family The philosopher rulers The good The education of the philosopher Unjust societies Art revisited Afterlife Conclusion 2 Rene Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy (1641) Background The text First meditation Second meditation Tbe piece of wax Third meditation The existence of God Fourth meditation Fifth meditation Sixth meditation Conclusion 3 David Hume: An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (1748) Background The text I Of the Different Species of Philosophy II Of the Origin of Ideas III Of the Association of Ideas IV Sceptical Doubts Concerning the Operations of the Understanding V Sceptical Solution of these Doubts VI Of Probability VII Of the Idea of Necessary Connexion VIII Of Liberty and Necessity IX Of the Reason of Animals X Of Miracles XI Of a Particular Providence and of a Future State XII Of the Academical or Sceptical Philosophy 4 John Stuart Mill: On Liberty (1859) Background The text I Introductory II On the Liberty of Thought and Discussion III Of Individuality, as One of the Elements of Well-Being IV Of the Limits to the Authority of Society over the Individual V Applications Conclusion 5 Friedrich Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil (1886) Background The text Preface Part One: On the Prejudices of Philosophers Part Two: The Free Spirit Part Three: The Religious Nature Part Four: Maxims and Interludes Part Five: On the Natural History of Morals Part Six: We Scholars Part Seven: Our Virtues Part Eight: Peoples and Fatherlands Part Nine: What is Noble? From High Mountains: Epode Conclusion 6 Jean-Paul Sartre: Existentialism and Humanism (1947) Background The text The attack on existentialism Humanism Existentialism Subjectivity Anguish Abandonment Despair The cogito The human condition Does it matter what you do? Can you judge others? A case of give and take Humanism again Conclusion Glossary Further Reading

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Styles of reading
Arguments f
Assessing premises
Inferences
The archaeology of arguments
Arguments within arguments
Back to style
The principle of charity
Six key texts
1 Plato: Republic (c.375 BC)
Background
The text
Preliminary discussion: What is justice?
The basis of society
Education
Rulers and auxiliaries
Society and the individual
Women, marriage and family
The philosopher rulers
The good
The education of the philosopher
Unjust societies
Art revisited
Afterlife
Conclusion
2 Rene Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy (1641)
Background
The text
First meditation
Second meditation
Tbe piece of wax
Third meditation
The existence of God
Fourth meditation
Fifth meditation
Sixth meditation
Conclusion
3 David Hume: An Enquiry concerning Human
Understanding (1748)
Background
The text
I Of the Different Species of Philosophy
II Of the Origin of Ideas
III Of the Association of Ideas
IV Sceptical Doubts Concerning the Operations of the
Understanding
V Sceptical Solution of these Doubts
VI Of Probability
VII Of the Idea of Necessary Connexion
VIII Of Liberty and Necessity
IX Of the Reason of Animals
X Of Miracles
XI Of a Particular Providence and of a Future State
XII Of the Academical or Sceptical Philosophy
4 John Stuart Mill: On Liberty (1859)
Background
The text
I Introductory
II On the Liberty of Thought and Discussion
III Of Individuality, as One of the Elements of Well-Being
IV Of the Limits to the Authority of Society over the
Individual
V Applications
Conclusion
5 Friedrich Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
Background
The text
Preface
Part One: On the Prejudices of Philosophers
Part Two: The Free Spirit
Part Three: The Religious Nature
Part Four: Maxims and Interludes
Part Five: On the Natural History of Morals
Part Six: We Scholars
Part Seven: Our Virtues
Part Eight: Peoples and Fatherlands
Part Nine: What is Noble?
From High Mountains: Epode
Conclusion
6 Jean-Paul Sartre: Existentialism and Humanism (1947)
Background
The text
The attack on existentialism
Humanism
Existentialism
Subjectivity
Anguish
Abandonment
Despair
The cogito
The human condition
Does it matter what you do?
Can you judge others?
A case of give and take
Humanism again
Conclusion
Glossary
Further Reading

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