An Introduction to the Love of Wisdom

An Essential and Existential Approach to Philosophy

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An Introduction to the Love of Wisdom

An Essential and Existential Approach to Philosophy

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The purpose of this engaging book is twofold: to explain and justify the primary objects and methods of the discipline of philosophy, and to show how philosophy is relevant to a person's life and happiness. Both purposes are implied in the idea of wisdom in its theoretical and existential dimensions. Philosophy is the 'love of wisdom,' and wisdom involves coming into a right relation to the world of beauty, goodness, and truth.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Acknowledgments
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 Philosophy and Our Everyday Life
Chapter 4 Basics of Being
Chapter 5 The Human Person
Chapter 6 Empirical and Philosophical Methodologies
Chapter 7 God-The Supreme Being?
Chapter 8 Value as the Basis for the Moral Law
Chapter 9 Morality and Person
Chapter 10 Appearances, Illusions, and Realities
Chapter 11 Fullness of Human Life
Chapter 12 A Philosophy of Conversion
Chapter 13 How to Write a Philosophy Paper
Chapter 14 Dictionary of Terms
Chapter 15 Index

Product details

Published Aug 28 2004
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 380
ISBN 9780761830061
Imprint University Press of America
Dimensions 214 x 181 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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