The Theory and Practice of Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9781138539044 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 496 str.

Abraham Edel

Opis

There is an historical element throughout philosophy

Spis treści

1: The Nature and Role of Philosophy; I: The Nature of Explanation; 2: Essence and Purpose: the Teleological Approach; 3: Causality and the Mechanistic Approach; 4: The Meaning of Law and the Nature of System; II: Empirical or Scientific Method; 5: Science and Its Method; 6: The Demand for Absolute Knowledge; 7: Testing by Experience; 8: Sense-Perception; 9: Critiques of Science; 10: Science, Truth, and Reality; III: What is a Man?; 11: Man as a Twofold Being; 12: Man as Ultimately Mental; 13: Man a Machine; 14: A Naturalistic Account of Man; 15: Problems of the Self; IV: Of Human Bondage and Human Freedom; 16: Values, Ends, and Means; 17: Freedom; 18: Liberty; 19: Techniques of Freedom and Liberty; 20: Democracy; V: The Direction of Human Affairs; 21: Materialism and Idealism; 22: Interpretation of Religion; 23: Interpretation of Art; 24: The Idealist Outlook on Human Affairs; 25: The Materialist Outlook on Human Affairs

O autorze

Abraham Edel