The Secret Codes of the Mind, Volume 1 (Hardcover)
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Editorial: Kudin & Sons Academic Press, 2026
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Hardcover. The Secret Codes of the Mind: Introduction to Philosophy is the revised and expanded second edition of Volume I of Andrew V. Kudin's six-volume academic textbook in philosophy. Built on decades of university teaching and research, this volume presents philosophy as a disciplined intellectual practice: a way of forming concepts, testing assumptions, clarifying arguments, and confronting the fundamental problems of reality, knowledge, value, reason, and freedom.Designed for college courses, general education programs, independent study, and serious readers, the book combines systematic structure with accessible prose. It presents major thinkers, texts, and historical contexts through the problems that give philosophy its force. Students encounter the history of philosophy as a field of living argument, where concepts are tested, positions are compared, and ideas become instruments of disciplined thought.Volume I contains five substantial lectures.Lecture 1 defines philosophy and examines its major branches: metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, logic, and political philosophy. The chapter shows how these fields shape inquiry beyond the classroom.Lecture 2 introduces major philosophical methods and their application to the art of living. Readers receive practical tools for interpretation, criticism, conceptual analysis, comparison, doubt, dialogue, and self-examination.Lecture 3 studies philosophical categories as instruments for ordering thought and experience. Being, causality, truth, unity, diversity, essence, relation, and change become part of a disciplined vocabulary for understanding the world.Lecture 4 explores the metaphysics of the universe through consciousness, matter, space, and time, tracing central questions from ancient cosmology through rationalist and modern debate.Lecture 5 examines freedom, determinism, responsibility, and illusion. It asks what it means to act, choose, deliberate, and remain accountable within conditions the individual did not create.The textbook is built for active study. Each lecture includes discussion questions, suggested readings, analytical exercises, and review material that can be used in the classroom or by independent readers. Its structure allows instructors to build a course around core philosophical problems while giving students a clear path from introductory understanding to serious analysis.This volume is suitable for introductory philosophy courses, critical thinking courses, humanities programs, and readers seeking a rigorous entrance into metaphysics, epistemology, logic, ethics, and the philosophical study of freedom. It offers an academically grounded beginning to the larger six-volume textbook. A rigorous academic introduction to philosophy for college courses, covering metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, logic, political philosophy, philosophical methods and categories, and the problem of freedom. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…
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- Título
- The Secret Codes of the Mind, Volume 1 (Hardcover)
- Autor
- Andrew V. Kudin
- Editorial
- Kudin & Sons Academic Press
- Año de publicación
- 2026
- Estado
- new
- Encuadernación
- Hardcover
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 10
- 1971325198
- ISBN 13
- 9781971325194
- Edición
- 2ª Edición
- Serie
- Libro 1 de 8: THE SECRET CODES OF THE MIND
Philosophy begins when the obvious stops being obvious.
Introduction to Philosophy, Volume I of The Secret Codes of the Mind, approaches philosophy as an intellectual practice: a disciplined way of questioning what appears obvious and following an argument farther than habit usually allows.
Built on more than four decades of university teaching and research, this Second Revised and Expanded Edition is a comprehensive philosophy textbook for college courses and independent readers. The volume introduces the major branches of philosophy, investigates the fundamental categories through which thought organizes reality, explores questions of consciousness, matter, space, time, and freedom, and examines sixteen distinct methods of philosophical analysis.
WHAT VOLUME I COVERS
Lecture 1. Definition of Philosophy, Main Branches, Concepts, and Their Practical Application
What philosophy investigates, how its principal branches differ, and why metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, logic, and political philosophy continue to shape questions of knowledge, value, and human action.
Lecture 2. Philosophical Methods and Their Application in the Art of Living
The methods of philosophical analysis meet problems that resist easy answers and works of literature in which those problems take concrete form. The lecture follows assumptions to their consequences and carries the same discipline into the examination of one’s own life.
Lecture 3. Philosophical Categories: From Chaos to Order in the Understanding of Being
Being, causality, truth, unity, difference, quantity, and quality form part of the conceptual architecture through which thought organizes experience. The lecture examines how such categories make reality intelligible before we begin arguing about what reality ultimately is.
Lecture 4. The Metaphysics of the Universe: Consciousness and Matter in Time and Space
Consciousness and matter, space and time raise some of philosophy’s most persistent questions about reality. Ancient cosmology, modern philosophy, and contemporary debate approach them from different directions.
Lecture 5. Freedom: Between Reality and Illusion
Free will and determinism open the problem; autonomy and responsibility make its consequences unavoidable. How much of what we call freedom survives once necessity, circumstance, and the conditions of choice are taken seriously?
Each lecture includes Questions and Assignments for active engagement with the text, together with Recommended Literature for deeper study.
FOR INSTRUCTORS
Volume I is designed for college-level Introduction to Philosophy courses and can serve as a core text for a problem-centered approach. Philosophical analysis and critical thinking begin in the first lecture and continue through the assignments. The volume also establishes the conceptual foundation for the books that follow in The Secret Codes of the Mind.
FOR INDEPENDENT READERS
No previous study of philosophy is required. The book begins at the foundation, yet it never treats the beginner as intellectually passive; from the opening lecture onward, the reader is expected to question, compare, judge, and revise.
Philosophy matters when an idea no longer stays on the page. It begins to alter what you notice, what you accept as evidence, and how readily you trust the assumptions behind your own decisions.
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