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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0199985502
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0199985500
• Author:  Lewis Vaughn

Living Philosophy, a historically organized, introductory hybrid text/reader, guides students through the story of philosophical thought from the Pre-Socratics to the present, providing cultural and intellectual background and explaining why key issues and arguments remain important and relevant today. Featuring an exceptionally clear and accessible writing style, this unique volume brings philosophy to life with well-chosen excerpts from philosophers’ works, abundant in-text learning aids, and compelling color photos and illustrations.

Table contents:

CHAPTER 1 Why Philosophy

CHAPTER 2 The Pre-Socratics and the Sophists

CHAPTER 3 Socrates: An Examined Life

CHAPTER 4 Plato: The Really Real

CHAPTER 5 Aristotle: Reason and Nature

CHAPTER 6 Eastern Thought

CHAPTER 7 The Hellenistic Era

CHAPTER 8 The Medieval Period

CHAPTER 9 Descartes: Doubt and Certainty

CHAPTER 10 From Hobbes to Hume

CHAPTER 11 Kant’s Revolution

CHAPTER 12 John Stuart Mill and Utilitarianism

CHAPTER 13 Hegel and Marx

CHAPTER 14 Existentialism

CHAPTER 15 The Pragmatists: Peirce and James

CHAPTER 16 Feminist Philosophers

CHAPTER 17 The Contemporary Period

CHAPTER 18 The Meaning of Life

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