How ought we to live? What really exists? How do we know? This book introduces many themes in ethics, knowledge, and the self, via readings from Plato, Hume, and other writers. It emphasizes throughout the point of doing philosophy, explains how many areas of philosophy are related, and explores the contexts in which philosophy was and is done.

General Information

ISBN : 9780192854216
Publisher : Oxford Uni Press
Imprint : Oxford Uni Press
Weight (g) : 0.123
Publication date : 01 January 2002
Produced in : United Kingdom
Product Type : books

Other Specifications

Author : Edward Craig
Bind : Paperback
Edition : 0205
Dewey classification : 100
Pages : 144
Illustrations : numerous halftones and line drawings

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Table of contents

1. Introduction; 2. What should I do? Plato's Crito; 3. How do we know? Hume's, Of Miracles; 4. What am I? An unknown Buddhist on the Self: 'The Chariot' from The Questions of; KING MILINDA; 5. Some themes; 6. Of 'isms'; 7. Some more high spots -- a personal selection; 8. What's in it for whom?; Bibliography