Philosophy

Key Texts

By: Julian Baggini

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Designed for complete beginners, "Philosophy: Key Texts" is an introduction to philosophy and gives a clear, readable overview of five major texts by Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Sartre, and Russell. As well as providing help in how to analyze these sources, Baggini encourages the reader to question the arguments and positions presented. Invaluable at the start of a course of study, as a concise revision aid, or as a lucid, jargon-free guide for anyone who wants an insight into philosophy, "Philosophy: Key Texts" can be used either independently of, or together with, its companion volume "Philosophy: Key Themes."

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Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
Styles of reading	p. 2
Arguments	p. 3
Assessing premises	p. 5
Inferences	p. 6
The archaeology of arguments	p. 7
Arguments within arguments	p. 8
Back to style	p. 9
The principle of charity	p. 9
Five key texts	p. 10
Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics (c.334-323 BCE)	p. 11
Background	p. 11
The text	p. 12
The proper method of philosophy	p. 12
Teleology	p. 13
The Good for human life	p. 15
Happiness	p. 18
Moral virtue	p. 20
The doctrine of the mean	p. 22
The role of pleasure	p. 23
Choice, freedom and responsibility	p. 26
Five routes to truth	p. 28
Conclusion	p. 31
Rene Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy (1641)	p. 35
Background	p. 35
The text	p. 36
First meditation	p. 37
Problems	p. 39
Second meditation	p. 41
Problems	p. 42
The piece of wax	p. 44
Third meditation	p. 45
The existence of God	p. 46
Fourth meditation	p. 49
Fifth meditation	p. 51
Problems	p. 52
Sixth meditation	p. 55
Problems	p. 56
Outstanding problems	p. 56
Conclusion	p. 57
David Hume: An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (1748)	p. 61
Background	p. 61
The text	p. 61
Of the different species of philosophy	p. 62
Of the origin of ideas	p. 64
Of the association of ideas	p. 66
Sceptical doubts concerning the operations of the understanding	p. 66
Sceptical solution of these doubts	p. 68
Of probability	p. 70
Of the idea of necessary connexion	p. 71
Of liberty and necessity	p. 73
Of the reason of animals	p. 75
Of miracles	p. 76
Of a particular providence and of a future state	p. 78
Of the academical or sceptical philosophy	p. 79
Bertrand Russell: The Problems of Philosophy (1912)	p. 85
Background	p. 85
The text	p. 86
Appearance and reality	p. 86
The existence of matter	p. 88
The nature of matter	p. 90
Idealism	p. 91
Acquaintance and description	p. 92
Induction	p. 94
Knowledge of general principles	p. 96
How is a priori knowledge possible?	p. 98
The world of universals	p. 99
Our knowledge of universals	p. 101
On intuitive knowledge	p. 104
Truth and falsehood	p. 105
Knowledge, error and probable opinion	p. 107
The limits of philosophical knowledge	p. 109
The value of philosophy	p. 111
Jean-Paul Sartre: Existentialism and Humanism (1947)	p. 115
Background	p. 115
The text	p. 116
The attack on existentialism	p. 117
Humanism	p. 117
Existentialism	p. 118
Subjectivity	p. 119
Anguish	p. 120
Abandonment	p. 122
Despair	p. 125
The cogito	p. 126
The human condition	p. 127
Does it matter what you do?	p. 128
Can you judge others?	p. 129
A case of give and take	p. 130
Humanism again	p. 130
Conclusion	p. 131
Glossary	p. 134
Further Reading	p. 136
Index	p. 137
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