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Author Miles, Murray Lewis, 1946- author.

Title Inroads : paths in ancient and modern western philosophy / Murray Miles
Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 666 pages)
Series Toronto studies in philosophy
Toronto studies in philosophy.
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.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- General.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
Philosophy.
Genre/Form Introductions.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442623323
1442623322