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Brief Guide to Ideas

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ISBN-10: 0310227747

ISBN-13: 9780310227748

Edition: 2000

Authors: William Raeper, Linda Edwards

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Philosophy -- dry and remote? Think again. It's as relevant as tonight's news, as immediate as the choices you make in a career. If you want to interact wisely with the world you live in, you need to understand the ideas that shape its commerce, launch its humanitarian efforts, trigger its wars, and profoundly impact the way you yourself approach God, life, and relationships. Postmodernism, Platonism, Humanism, Existentialism, Feminism, Rationalism, Fundamentalism, New Age . . . They're more than just terms. They're structures of thought you encounter constantly. This book gives you a fundamental grasp of what they are and how they influence your dealings with the world . . . and its…    
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Book details

List price: $22.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Zondervan
Publication date: 2/7/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

How and What Can We Know?Epistemology
Knowledge and Reason
Plato and the Ancient Greeks
Theories of Knowledge
Plato and Aristotle
Faith and Reason
Augustine
Who Am I?
The Question of Identity
The Nature of the Soul
Aristotle and Identity
Mind and Body Divided
RenT Descartes' Dualism
What Price the Soul?
Modern Debate on the Mind/Body Problem
Does God Exist?
Philosophy of Religion
From Plato to Bertrand Russell
Arguments for the Existence of God
The Five Ways
Thomas Aquinas
The Argument from Religious Experience
The Bible and the Mystics
Routes to Knowledge
Rationalism and Empiricism
Knowing through the Mind
RenT Descartes
Knowing through our Senses
John Locke and Bishop Berkeley
The Limits of Knowing
David Hume
Why Do We Exist?
Existentialism
Faith: the Highest Way of Living
S�ren Kierkegaard
The Nature of Being
Martin Heidegger
Free to Choose
Jean-Paul Sartre
All in the Mind?
Psychology
God as Psychological Projection
Ludwig Feuerbach
The Unconscious Mind
Sigmund Freud
The Collective Unconscious
Carl Gustav Jung
How Should Society Be Organized?
Politics
The Republic
Plato
The Ultimate Political Pragmatist
Niccolo Machiavelli
Class Conflict
Karl Marx
Is Man the Measure of All Things?
Humanism
The Rise of Humanism
Erasmus and the Renaissance
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
Humanism in the Modern World
John Stuart Mill
Who is Jesus?
The Person of Christ
Christology through the AgesJesus, the Son of God
The Kingdom of God
Jesus of Nazareth
Revelation and Response
Some People of Faith
What Place Has the Bible?
The Question of Interpretation
The Struggle for Understanding
The Early Christians
The ReformationMartin Luther and John Calvin
Interpreting the Bible Today
Conservatives and Radicals
Does Science Have the Answers?
Science and Belief
Creation and Evolution
Charles Darwin
The Meaning of Modern Science
Einstein and the New Physics
Miracles in a Scientific World
The Argument with Hume
The Nature of Meaning
Skepticism and Pluralism
The Enlightenment
Immanuel Kant
Language Games
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Pluralism
Reality is Relative
What Are the Boundaries of Reality?
The Paranormal
The Quest for the Transcendent
Christianity and the Paranormal
The Devil and All His Works
Belief in Satan Today
The Problem of Evil and Suffering
An Age-old Question
God the Mother?
Feminism
The Maleness of Reason
A Feminist Viewpoint
Patriarchy and Women
Mary Wollstonecraft and Others
Male and Female in the Bible
Feminist Theology
Anything Goes?
Relativism Versus Certainty
Moral Relativism
William James and the American Pragmatists
Postmodernity
Culture in Change
Fundamentalism
Reality is Certain
Renaissance or Delusion?
New Age Thinking
Shifting the Paradigm
Modern New Age Movements
The Me-Cult
New Age Psychology
Tomorrow's World
A Bird's-eye View
Appendix: For Further Thinking
Glossary
Index