Plato's sun : an introduction to philosophy /
Lawless, Andrew,
Plato's sun : an introduction to philosophy / Andrew Lawless. - Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, (c)2005. - 1 online resource (xiii, 364 pages).
Includes bibliographies and index.
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- What is philosophy? -- Metaphysics: the search for the god's-eye view -- Wittgenstein's ladder: the modern reaction to metaphysics -- Epistemology: the ghost in the metaphysical machine? -- Logic and its place in the universe -- Ethics: the good, the bad, and the beautiful -- Philosophy and language: the house of being -- Appendix 1. The twelve-coin puzzle and the paradox of the heap -- Appendix 2. Ethics and the 'other.'
9781442627796
Philosophy--Introductions.
Electronic Books.
BD21 / .P538 2005
Plato's sun : an introduction to philosophy / Andrew Lawless. - Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, (c)2005. - 1 online resource (xiii, 364 pages).
Includes bibliographies and index.
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- What is philosophy? -- Metaphysics: the search for the god's-eye view -- Wittgenstein's ladder: the modern reaction to metaphysics -- Epistemology: the ghost in the metaphysical machine? -- Logic and its place in the universe -- Ethics: the good, the bad, and the beautiful -- Philosophy and language: the house of being -- Appendix 1. The twelve-coin puzzle and the paradox of the heap -- Appendix 2. Ethics and the 'other.'
9781442627796
Philosophy--Introductions.
Electronic Books.
BD21 / .P538 2005