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Invitation to Philosophy: Issues and Options

Honer, Stanley M.; Hunt, Thomas C.

 
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Synopsis

Using an issues-and-options approach in a handbook format, this text deals with each major topic in philosophy by using a succinct, readable presentation and critique of the representative options within each topic. A continuum helps students see the options available to answer a variety of basic questions and the relationship each option has to the others. The options found on the continuum are discussed and followed by a case study drawn from contemporary life that helps students to apply the options.

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Review

Preface. Prologue. 1. What is Philosophy? 2. Philosophical Thinking. 3. Perception and Truth. 4. Epistemology: How We Know. 5. Metaphysics: What is Real? 6. Freedom and Determinism. 7. Philosophy and Religion. 8. Philosophy and Ethics. 9. Philosophy and Esthetics. 10. Philosophy and Human Nature. 11. Philosophy in Politics. Epilogue. Appendix: Writing Philosophy Papers Glossary. Index.

About the Author

John L. Safford (Ph.D., The University of California, Riverside) is professor of government and philosophy at the University of South Carolina, Sumter.

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