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Author: Robert Solomon
THE BIG QUESTIONS, 10th Edition, covers philosophy’s central ideas in an accessible, approachable manner. You’ll explore timeless “big questions” about the self, God, justice, and other meaningful topics, gaining the context you need for an understanding of the foundational issues, as well as the confidence to establish your own informed positions on these “big questions.” This edition is now also available with MindTap Philosophy, a system of tools and apps -‚Äì from note taking to flashcards — that help you understand course concepts, achieve better grades, and set the groundwork for your future courses.
The Big Questions A Short Introduction to Philosophy 10th Table of contents:
Introduction: Doing Philosophy
Beyond Buzzwords
Articulation and Argument: Two Crucial Features of Philosophy
Concepts and Conceptual Frameworks
Doing Philosophy with Style
A Little Logic
Deduction
Induction
Criticizing Arguments
Closing Questions
Key Words
Other Suggested Readings
Chapter 1. Philosophical Questions
What Is Philosophy?
Key Words
Other Suggested Readings
Chapter 2. The Meaning of Life
What Kind of Meaning?
Children as Meaning
God as Meaning
Afterlife as Meaning
No Meaning at All
The Meanings of Life
Life as a Game
Life as a Story
Life as Tragedy
Life as Comedy
Life as a Mission
Life as Art
Life as an Adventure
Life as Disease
Life as Desire
Life as Tranquility
Life as Altruism
Life as Honor
Life as Learning
Life as Suffering
Life as an Investment
Life as Relationships
Closing Questions
Key Words
Other Suggested Readings
Chapter 3. God
Believing in God
Gods and Goddesses
The Traditional Western Conceptions of God
God as Transcendent
God as Immanent
God as Totally Immanent: Pantheism
God as Universal Spirit
God as Process
God as Transcendent Creator: Deism
God as the Unknown Object of Faith
God as a Moral Being
The Problem of Evil
Denial of God
Two Kinds of Evil
Denial of Evil
The Least of the Evils
The Aesthetic Solution
The Free-Will Solution
Justice in the Afterlife
God’s “Mysterious Ways”
Working Out an Answer
Faith and Reason: Grounds for Believing
The Cosmological Argument
The Argument from Design
The Ontological Argument
Rational Faith
Pascal’s Wager
Irrational Faith
Religious Tolerance: Ritual, Tradition, and Spirituality
Doubts
Closing Questions
Key Words
Other Suggested Readings
Chapter 4. The Nature of Reality
The Real World
What Is Most Real?
The Reality Behind the Appearances
The Basis of Metaphysics
The First Metaphysicians
Thales
The Pre-Socratic Materialists
Early Nonphysical Views of Reality
Plato’s Forms
Aristotle’s Metaphysics
Mind and Metaphysics
René Descartes
Baruch Spinoza
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
Idealism
Teleology
Metaphysics and the Everyday World
Closing Questions
Key Words
Other Suggested Readings
Chapter 5. The Search for Truth
What Is True?
Two Kinds of Truth
Empirical Truth
Necessary Truth
Rationalism and Empiricism
The Presuppositions of Knowledge
Skepticism
René Descartes and the Method of Doubt
David Hume’s Skepticism
The Resolution of Skepticism: Immanuel Kant
Knowledge, Truth, and Science
The Nature of Truth
The Coherence Theory of Truth
The Pragmatic Theory of Truth
Rationality
Why Be Rational?
Subjective Truth and the Problem of Relativism
Closing Questions
Key Words
Other Suggested Readings
Chapter 6. Self
The Essential Self
Self as Body, Self as Consciousness
The Self and Its Emotions
The Egocentric Predicament
The Mind-Body Problem
Behaviorism
Identity Theory and Eliminative Materialism
Functionalism
Against the Mind-Body Problem
Other Theories of the Self
The Self as a Choice
No Self, Many Selves
The Self as Social
The Self and Relationships
Closing Questions
Key Words
Other Suggested Readings
Chapter 7. Freedom
Freedom and the Good Life
Why Is Freedom So Important to Us?
What Is Political Freedom?
Concepts of Self and Our Notions of Freedom
Free Will and Determinism
Determinism Versus Indeterminism
The Role of Consciousness
Compatibilism, or Soft Determinism
In Defense of Freedom
Closing Questions
Key Words
Other Suggested Readings
Chapter 8. Morality and the Good Life
Moral Philosophy
Pleasure and the Good Life
The Place of Self-Interest in Morality: Egoism Versus Altruism
Morality—Relative or Absolute?
Morality and Theories of Morality
Duty-Defined Morality
Immanuel Kant and the Authority of Reason
Consequentialist Theories
Utilitarianism: Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill
Aristotle and the Ethics of Virtue
Feminist Ethics: The Ethics of Care
Closing Questions
Key Words
Other Suggested Readings
Chapter 9. Justice and the Good Society
Morals and Society
The Nature of Society
Who Should Rule? The Question of Legitimacy
Anarchism, the Free Market, and the Need for Government
What is Justice?
The Meaning of Equality
The Origins of Justice and the Social Contract
Justice Beyond Our Borders
Rights and the Individual
Libertarianism
Liberalism
Communitarianism
Justice Denied: The Problem of Race
Sexual Politics: The Rise of Feminist Philosophy
Women and the Body
Plato: Patriarch or Early Feminist?
Feminist Epistemology and Feminist Science
Feminist Philosophy of Language
Closing Questions
Key Words
Other Suggested Readings
Chapter 10. Beauty
Aesthetics
Beauty and Truth
Enjoying Tragedy
Arguing About Taste
Art, Ethics, and Religion
Why Is It Art?
The Aesthetics of Popular Culture
Closing Questions
Key Words
Other Suggested Readings
Chapter 11. Non-Western Philosophy
Beyond the Western Tradition
The Challenges of Broadening Our Horizons
Other Cultures, Other Philosophies
Native American Philosophy
African Philosophy
Latin American Philosophy
Middle Eastern Philosophy
South Asian Philosophy
East Asian Philosophy
Closing Questions
Key Words
Other Suggested Readings
Appendix A. Writing Philosophy
Appendix B. Deductive Logic Valid Argument Forms
Appendix C. Common Informal Fallacies
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