Wonder and Critical Reflection An Invitation to Philosophy

Name: Wonder and Critical Reflection An Invitation to Philosophy
Price: 103.4 USD
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ISBN: 9780130400413

ISBN-10: 0130400416

ISBN-13: 9780130400413

Edition: 2001

Authors: Tom D. Christenson

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For use as the first text in Introduction to Philosophy courses. Using honesty, enthusiasm, and humor, this text addresses and answers questions posed by students new to the study of philosophyabout how critical philosophy is, the kinds of questions it raises, its cultural and social value, and the applicability of philosophy to their lives. Philosophy gives examples of a wide variety of thinkers from the ancientsSocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Diogenes, Guatama Siddhartha, up to twentieth-century thinkers including Wittgenstein, Sartre, deBeauvoir, Roger Scruton, and Iris Murdoch. Each chapter contains a brief summary of major themes, an introductory student-voiced dialogue, a clarifying…

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List price: $55.40
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 10/5/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English




The Idea of Philosophy



Three Common Temptations



Philosophy as Cultural Criticism



Philosophy as Cultural Conservation



Philosophy and the Labyrinth of Language



Freedom and Self-Determination



The Search for the Authentic Self



Questions, Questions and More Questions!