Roots of Wisdom : A Tapestry of Philosophical Traditions
ISBN: 9780495808961 | 0495808962
Edition: 6thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 1/1/2010
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ROOTS OF WISDOM, Sixth Edition, helps you understand the universal and current philosophical issues that concern all of us, such as, who we are, how we know, and how we should live. No other book offers such breadth of multicultural coverage coupled with a clear, concise, and approachable writing style. Women philosophers and non-Western philosophies are integrated throughout the text, which places the worldviews of many cultures in conversation with one another, addressing specific philosophical topics. Mitchell uses striking color and black and white images to illustrate our diverse cultural inheritance, using fine art, cartoons, poetry, movies, and popular music to bring the issues of philosophy to life for the student. This new edition features four new color inserts to illustrate philosophical themes as well as new material on animal intelligence, brain science, Asian approaches to war, and from President Obama's memoir on race and identity.
| Preface | |
| What is Everything Really Like? | |
| Questions of Metaphysics | |
| Historical Interlude | |
| A Worldwide Context for Western Philosophy | |
| Why Philosophy? | |
| Is This All There Is? | |
| Reality and Being | |
| Is What You See What You Get? | |
| Historical Interlude | |
| Philosophy and Early Christianity | ... MORE |
| Human Nature | |
| Who or What are We, and What are We Doing Here? | |
| Philosophy and Ultimate Reality | |
| Is Anyone in Charge? | |
| How Am I to Understand the World? | |
| Questions of Epistemology | |
| Historical Interlude | |
| from the Medieval to the Modern World | |
| Knowledge Sources | |
| Do You See What I See? | |
| Truth Tests | |
| Do You Swear to Tell the Truth . . . ? | |
| Aesthetic Experience | |
| Is Truth Beauty and Beauty Truth? | |
| by What Values Shall I Live in the World? | |
| Questions of Axiology | |
| Historical Interlude | |
| from the Modern to the Post Modern World | |
| Political Philosophy | |
| Is Big Brother Watching? | |
| Social Philosophy | |
| Am I My Brother's or Sister's Keeper? | |
| Ethics | |
| What Will it Be: Truth or Consequences? | |
| Historical Interlude | |
| A Revolution in Philosophy? | |
| Appendix | |
| Glossary | |
| Index | |
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