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What the Tortoise Taught Us
The Story of Philosophy
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2010
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What the Tortoise Taught Us offers a lively, concise journey through western philosophy that explores the lives of major philosophers, their ideas, and how their thinking continues to influence our lives today. Using a chronological approach, Burton Porter shows how various philosophers address life's big questions. By putting each philosopher and their ideas into historical context, he helps us understand how certain ideas developed based on the thinking of the time, and how those ideas have influenced our modern perceptions. Using familiar language and interesting anecdotes, Porter provides us with an extremely readable and lively history that takes themes that characterize each age to reflect on the greater human experience. The book includes the philosophies and lives of the ancient philosophers such as Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, and continues through time into the Middle Ages with St. Thomas Aquinas, to the Renaissance, and beyond. Porter explores the metaphysics of Descartes and Hobbs; the epistemology of Hume and Berkeley, and the ethics of Kant and Mill among others. Finally he concludes with contemporary issues, including racism, abortion and modern feminism. Porter is able to explain these complex ideas in a clear, simple, and straightforward way. What the Tortoise Taught Us is a balanced and approachable look at life's basic questions through the eyes of the philosophers that have helped shape modern thought.
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Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-0551-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-0553-6
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
206
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Chapter 01. The Beginning of Reflection No access Pages 1 - 24
Chapter 02. Being Governed By the Mind: Rational Thought No access Pages 25 - 56
Chapter 03. Religious Faith: The Philosophy of Religion No access Pages 57 - 80
Chapter 04. Personal Identity and Human Nature: Metaphysics No access Pages 81 - 108
Chapter 05. How Things Seem and What They Are: Epistemology No access Pages 109 - 130
Chapter 06. The Purpose of Living: Ethics No access Pages 131 - 160
Chapter 07. Contemporary Trends No access Pages 161 - 190
