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The Philosophy of Biology: An Episodic History (The Evolution of Modern Philosophy) / Marjorie Grene, David Depew

My wife is a philosophy teacher and she enjoys with the book because give a new point of view to introduce her Highschool students in these themes. maybe it's not a textbook, but it's more friendly and funny.

This book will teach you nothing about philosophy. I would have given this book a negative star review but thats not an option on this grading scale. The most common theme in this book is telling you how philosophers work. they tell you a step by step processes that are oversimplified and can be combined to make less steps or in some cases one step. what is important in philosophy is what the questions are then what the suggested answers are and finally how to understand how to come to the suggested answer. br / br /I would reccomend a book called sophies world which is advertised as a story ( that is really boring ) but is actually a text book that does what I suggested earlier. if you can force yourself to read through sophies world you will actually learn something about philosophy. Anyone who reads this book will notice there is a lot of information that was just added in to make the textbook long enough to be considered a text book. one example is how the book tells us that platos written work is considered a philosophical work as opposed to a work of art. wow how important. another problem is the definition format. instead of explaining a philosophical aspect they just waste the readers time an example of this is aristotles term catharsis which is "a cleansing or purging" the book could have just stated that some people feel plays arouse emotions while others feel they purge emotions and then explained the argument behind both views.

My philosphy proffessor gave us a list of books to choose from so that we could write a paper on it. This was on the list and since I have always been a huge Seinfeld fan I bought it. I thoroghly enjoyed the book. It made me think about the characters more than I ever did watching the show, and it even made me laugh a little once or twice. I highly recommend this book!

This is the first book I have read from the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series. I am especially impressed with the very high degree of intellectual integrity and sophistication maintained throughout. The philosophy promised in the title is not glossed over or dumbed-down for a general audience. Yet, this book is eminently comprehensible and entertaining to the lay person (e.g., me). If you like to analyze shows that possess depth and subtlety, as "the office" no doubt does, you will not be disappointed here!

Although I do not agree with everything that is included in this book, I found it filled with the type of advice and wisdom that can be a true help in daily living. Botton addresses the many areas where the average human being needs consolation - in unhappiness, frustration, inadequacy, incompetence, etc - by accessing the wisdom of philosophers from Socrates to Nietzsche. He pulls from them not the lofty abstractions about things like consciousness and being, but the more mundane and practical ruminations about matters like fear of approaching a potential mate or the feeling of inadequacy in comparison to ones peers. You can gain a sense of peace and perspective from Botton's exposition of his philosophers' thoughts, much the way people of faith gain the same from their religious beliefs. Indeed, there are similarities in the ways in which religion and philosophy approach these themes of consolation such as, for example, Socrates' notion that happiness comes from freedom, friends and thought - not so distinct a lifestyle, as it may appear, from Christian asceticism. I liked this book enough to order Botton's other works and I can not wait to get started on them.

This is one of the best anthologies I've ever found on the issues discussed within Philosophy of Religion. It covers different readings from Saint Teresa of Jesus, St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, up to William Alston, Blaise Pascal, Soren Kierkegaard, C. S. Lwis, John Hick, David Hume, William Rowe among many others. The book selects readings from the following subjects: Religious Experience, Faith and Reason, the attributes of God (the problems of his existence, his omnipotence, his omniscience and its relations with voluntary action, his timelessness, etc), theistic arguments (specially the ontological and cosmological arguments), the problem of evil, knowledge of God, religious language, miracles, among many others. Highly recommended.

Amazon advertizes and depicts this book with a dust cover. The book arrived without the dustcover, which for a bibliophile is akin to a painting sold without the frame...or something like that. Anyway, Coppleston's 15 volume tome has been regarded and accepted as the (definitive) discourse on the History of Western 'thought' since the late 1940's, and a re-reading of Vol. 1 (after nearly 30 years) has done nothing to diminish my sense of its stature or worth. The History is not 'easy' reading, but IS worth every minute of the time you can devote to it, especially in a world that seems to treat THINKING as passe. br / The only reason I reserved the fifth star is I'm still ticked about the missing dust cover.

I have the 1988 edition so I can't vouch for this edition. br /But I have to say if it is anything like this one then by all means grab it. A very readable style with plenty of humours illustrations that make this an unputdownable book. Don't let the cartoons fool you though, you will learn alot.

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