The Basics deservedly remains the most recommended introductionto philosophy on the market. Right and Wrong 3. Appearance and Reality 6.
Nigel Warburton is freelance philosopher. He is author of several books for Routledge including Philosophy: The Classics , Philosophy: The Basics is a highly successful series of accessible guidebooks which provide an overview of the fundamental principles of a subject area in a jargon-free and undaunting format.
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Each chapter considers a key area of philosophy, explaining and exploring the basic ideas and themes including: What is the nature of reality? Why can music be so profound?
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Clean Kant - Groundwork of Metaphysic of Morals. Immanuel Kant's ethical stance is uncompromising: In this reading from his book Philosophy: The Classics, Nigel Warburton outlines the main features of Kant's approach and sketches some criticisms.. Clean Kant - Critique of Pure Reason. What is our relation to reality? Are some features of our experience conditions of our having any experience at all? Clean Rousseau - Social Contract. How should society be organised?
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Clean Hume - Dialogues. Does the apparent design in the natural world point to the existence of an omnipotent, omniscient and benevolent God? In his posthumous Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, perhaps his finest work, David Hume put some devastating criticisms of the Clean Hume - Enquiry. How do we learn about the world? David Hume's answer, like Locke's, was via experience. In this podcast, based on Nigel Warburton's Philosophy: The Classics, outlines Hume's views on a number of issues such as induction, causation, and miracles.
Clean Locke - 2nd Treatise. What are the legitimate powers of the State? Nigel Warburton sketches the main features of this work and outlines some criticisms of it in this podcast Clean Locke - Essay. Is a newborn's mind a blank slate? What makes you the same person that you were several years ago despite bodily changes?
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Clean Spinoza - Ethics. What kind of freedom can human beings achieve? Is the mind distinct from the body? Are we and everything in the universe part of God? Clean Hobbes - Leviathan. Why would anyone give up their freedom to become part of an organised state? Clean Descartes - Meditations. Can I know anything for certain?
Can I even be sure that I exist? Descartes pushed scepticism to its limits in his Meditations. Nigel Warburton explains Descartes' key ideas and some of the criticisms that can be levelled against them. Clean Machiavelli - The Prince.
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Is this just a handbook for psychopaths, or a satirical attack on his contemporaries, or did Machiavelli have a moral message? The Classics, Nigel Warburton explains the central themes from Machiavelli's great.. Clean Boethius - The Consolation of Philosophy. What consolation can Philosophy provide to a condemned man? Boethius wrote The Consolation of Philosophy while awaiting torture and execution.