Philosophy & This Actual World : An Introduction to Practical Philosophical Inquiry

✍ Scribed by Martin Benjamin

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Year: 2002
Tongue: English
Leaves: 242
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Academic philosophy has become so technical and inbred that it often fails to connect with the questions and concerns of educated nonspecialists. Martin Benjamin aims to bridge this gap. Presupposing little or no formal background,Philosophy & This Actual World addresses general questions of knowledge, reality, mind, will, and ethics, as well as more specific questions about moral pluralism, assisted suicide, the nature of death, and life's meaning. At the same time, it incorporates the advances of academic philosophers like Wittgenstein, Rorty, Putnam, and Rawls, making it equally as valuable to the scholar as to the philosophically uninitiated.

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