The Latest Answers to the Oldest Questions: A Philosophical Adventure with the World's Greatest Thinkers - Tapa dura

Fearn, Nicholas

 
9780802118394: The Latest Answers to the Oldest Questions: A Philosophical Adventure with the World's Greatest Thinkers
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ISBN 10: 0802118399 ISBN 13: 9780802118394
Editorial: Grove Pr, 2007

Sinopsis

<div>The work of the classic philosophers is well known. But where can the general reader discover what today&#8217;s philosophers believe about what it is to be a human being? In his serious, challenging, and remarkably accessible new book, Nicholas Fearn turns to contemporary philosophers to ask the age old questions: Who am I? What do I know? What should I do? In a work that is part travelogue, part search for higher meaning, Fearn consults with thinkers from around the world (including John Searle, Martha Nussbaum, Daniel Dennett, Jacques Derrida, among many others) to create an impressive survey of recent thought. Variously, they believe that free will, identity, and consciousness are not what they seem; that the difference between virtue and wickedness can be a matter of sheer luck; and that, one day, we will all be vegetarians. Kearn discovers that the topics haven&#8217;t changed, though our world has. Or has it? Moving deftly from pop culture to the writings of Plato, <i>The Latest Answers to the Oldest Questions</i> is a brilliant and entertaining guide to the current state of the philosophical art.</div>

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Reseña del editor

Features interviews with some of the modern world's foremost thinkers on key philosophical questions about the nature of the self and the purpose of life, in a contemporary tour that includes the perspectives of such figures as Derek Parfit, David Wiggins, and Bernard Williams. By the author of Zeno and the Tortoise.

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Editorial
Grove Pr
Año de publicación
2007
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0802118399
ISBN 13 
9780802118394
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
225
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