Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 666 pages) |
Series |
Toronto studies in philosophy |
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Toronto studies in philosophy.
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Contents |
Preface -- Note on texts and quotations -- Introduction: what philosophy is -- Socrates and the road to wisdom -- Plato and the road to reality -- Descartes and the road to certainty -- Hume and the road back to common life -- Sartre and the road to freedom -- Conclusion |
Summary |
In each of its five main parts - in turn, focusing on Socrates, Plato, Descartes, Hume, and Sartre - Inroads discusses, from a philosophical rather than a religious or scientific perspective, those questions that make up the common inheritance of academic philosophy and ethico-religious thought |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 7, 2016) |
Subject |
Philosophy -- Introductions.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- General.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Philosophy.
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Genre/Form |
Introductions.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781442623323 |
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1442623322 |
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