Title: Inroads : paths in ancient and modern western philosophy /
Authors: Miles, Murray.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Philosophy Introductions
Abstract: "Combining a historical with a systematic approach, Murray Miles's work straddles the customary divisions between ancient and modern, but also between Anglo-American and continental European philosophy. In each of five main parts devoted to Socrates, Plato, Descartes, Hume, and Sartre, respectively, 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 of other kinds. Other features include a detailed glossary of philosophical terms, suggestions for further reading, and questions for reflection and review. Inroads is a useful text for first- or upper-year undergraduate courses or, equally, a sound resource for the general reader looking for a good grounding in philosophy and its history."--Jacket.
Contents: Introduction: What Philosophy Is -- 1. Problems, Periods, Genres -- 2. Philosophy and Higher Education -- 3. The Order of Knowing -- 4. The Order of Being -- 5. Philosophy and Mythico-Religious Thought -- 6. Philosophy and Science -- 7. Philosophy and Logic -- pt. 1. Socrates and the Road to Wisdom -- 8. Sources and Outline -- 9. Life and Character -- 10. Defence of the Philosophic Life -- 11. Socratic Piety -- 12. Virtue and Happiness -- 13. Concluding Appraisal -- pt. 2. Plato and the Road to Reality -- 14. Doctrines and Influences -- 15. New Defence of the Philosophic Life -- 16. Soul, Death, Immortality -- 17. Cyclical Argument -- 18. Recollection Argument -- 19. Affinity Argument -- 20. The Metaphysics of Form -- 21. Concluding Appraisal -- pt. 3. Descartes and the Road to Certainty -- 22. Subjectivism and Dualism -- 23. Doubt and Certainty -- 24. Mind and Matter -- 25. Truth and Circularity -- 26. The Existence of God -- 27. Man and World -- pt. 4. Hume and the Road Back to Common Life -- 28. Philosophical Works and Outlook -- 29. An Empiricist Critique of Reason -- 30. The Unmaking of Miracles -- 31. The Undoing of Divine Justice -- pt. 5. Sartre and the Road to Freedom -- 32. Life, Work, and Basic Philosophical Outlook -- 33. Atheistic Humanism -- 34. Criticisms of Existentialism -- 35. Slogan and Basic Doctrines -- 36. Human Reality -- 37. Will and Emotion -- 38. Decisionism.