Western philosophy : an anthology
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- ISBN: 1405124784 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9781405124782 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 1405124776 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9781405124775 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Physical Description:
xxxii, 849 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
print - Edition: 2nd ed.
- Publisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2008.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Pt. XI. Beauty and Art -- 1. Art and Imitation -- Republic / Plato -- 2. Nature and function of Dramatic Art -- Poetics / Aristotle -- 3. Idea of Beauty -- Inquiry concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony, Design / Francis Hutcheson -- 4. Aesthetic Appreciation -- Of the Standard of Taste / David Hume -- 5. Concept of the Beautiful -- Critique of judgement / Immanuel Kant -- 6. Metaphysics of Beauty -- On Aesthetics / Arthur Schopenhauer -- 7. Two Faces of Art -- Birth of Tragedy / Friedrich Nietzsche -- 8. Value of Art -- What is Art? / Leo Tolstoy -- 9. Imagination and Art -- Psychology of Imagination / Jean-Paul Sartre -- 10. What is Aesthetics? -- Lectures on Aesthetics / Ludwig Wittgenstein -- 11. Basis of Judgements of Taste -- Aesthetic Concepts / Frank Sibley -- 12. Artistic Representation and Reality -- Languages of Art / Nelson Goodman -- Pt. XII. Human Life and its Meaning -- 1. How to Accept Reality and Avoid Fear -- On the Nature of the Universe / Lucretius -- 2. Life Guided by Stoic Philosophy -- Moral Letters / Seneca -- 3. Meaning through Service to Others -- Confessions / Augustine -- 4. Contentment with the Human Lot -- On Experience / Michel de Montaigne -- 5. Human Condition, Wretched yet Redeemable -- Pensees / Blaise Pascal -- 6. Human Life as a Meaningless Struggle -- On the Vanity of Existence / Arthur Schopenhauer -- 7. Death of God and the Ascendancy of the Will -- Thus Spake Zarathustra / Friedrich Nietzsche -- 8. Idealism in a Godless Universe -- Free Man's Worship / Bertrand Russell -- 9. Futility and Defiance -- Myth of Sisyphus / Albert Camus -- 10. Involvement versus Detachment -- Absurd / Thomas Nagel -- 11. Religious Belief as Necessary for Meaning -- Absurdity of Life without God / William Lane Craig -- 12. Seeing our Lives as Part of the Process -- Philosophy's Life / Robert Nozick. |
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Lansdowne Library | BD 21 W43 2008 (Text) | 26040002797039 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |