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The Big Questions: A Short Introduction to Philosophy

Philosophy is all about our beliefs and attitudes about ourselves and the world. Doing philosophy, therefore, is first of all the activity of stating, as clearly and as convincingly as possible, what we believe and what we believe in. This does
not mean, however, that announcing one’s allegiance to some grand-sounding ideas or, perhaps, some impressive word or “ism” is all that there is to philosophy. Philosophy is the development of these ideas, the attempt to work them out with all their implications and complications. It is the attempt to see their connections and compare them with other people’s views—including the classic statements of the great philosophers of the past. It is the effort to appreciate the differences between one’s own views and others’ views, to be able to argue with someone who disagrees and resolve the difficulties that they may throw in your path. One of our students once suggested that she found it easy to list her main ideas on a single sheet of paper; what she found difficult was showing how they related to one another and how she might defend them against someone who disagreed with her. In effect, what she was saying was something like this: she would really enjoy playing quarterback with the football team, as long as she didn’t have to cooperate with the other players—and then only until the other team came onto the field. But playing football is cooperating with your team and running against the team that is out to stop you; philosophy is the attempt to coordinate a number of different ideas into a single viewpoint and defending what you believe against those who are out to refute you. Indeed, a belief that can’t be tied in with a great many other beliefs and that can’t withstand criticism may not be worth believing at all.

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No. Panggil

Online

Penerbit

Belmont, California, USA : Wadsworth Cengage Learning., 2006

Deskripsi Fisik

444 p. : 23 cm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-1-133-61064-9

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NONE

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

electronic

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

Edisi

Ninth Edition

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Philosophy introductions
Philosophy
Introductions

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Solomon, Robert

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