The big questions : short introduction to philosophy /
Robert C. Solomon and Kathleen Higgins
- 9th edition
- Australia : Wadsworth Cengage Learning, c2014
- xix, 444 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Includes index.
Introduction : Doing psychology -- Chapter 1 : Philosophical questions -- Chapter 2 : The Meaning of life -- Chapter 3 : God -- Chapter 4 : The Nature of reality -- Chapter 5 : The Search for truth -- Chapter 6 : Self -- Chapter 7 : Freedom -- Chapter 8 : Morality and the good life -- Chapter 9 : Justice and the good society -- Chapter 10 : Non-Western philosophy -- Chapter 11 : Beauty
This book is an attempt to help you do just that -- to do philosophy, to state what you believe, using the great philosophers and the great ideas of the past as inspiration, as a guide to ways of putting together your own views, and to provoke the present alternatives that you may not have thought of on your own.