Pocket Professor Philosophy : Everything You Need to Know about Philosophy,9780671534882

Pocket Professor Philosophy : Everything You Need to Know about Philosophy

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ISBN13: 9780671534882
ISBN10: 0671534882
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-07-01
Publisher(s): Pocket Books
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Summary

From the five branches of philosophy to the 20th century's three philosophic schools, this compendium explains Kant, questions Socrates, and picks Locke's brain.

Table of Contents

What Is the Meaning of Life?
1(1)
What Philosophy Isn't
1(5)
Philosophy: What It Is
6(1)
What Professional Philosophers Talk About When They Philosophize
7(1)
Five Main Branches of Philosophy
7(2)
The Basics, Philosophically Speaking
9(4)
Philosophy: Does It Matter?
13(7)
Three Views on Whether Life Has Meaning
20(7)
Do-It-Yourself Philosophy
27(1)
What Else You Know and Don't Know About The Meaning of Life
27(1)
Is There Method in the Madness or Madness in the Method?
28(1)
Three Methods of Philosophic Analysis
28(6)
The Grand and Glorious History of Isms
34(29)
What Is the Life Worth Living?
63(15)
The Judeo-Christian Heritage
78(3)
The Darth Philosopher
81(12)
The Author of Unholy Unhappiness
93(7)
To Believe or Not to Believe...
100(5)
The Philosophy Hall of Fame
105(12)
Index 117

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