An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion
10 best books like An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion (Brian Davies): Protagoras and Meno, The Great Philosophers: An Introduction to Western Philosophy, Selected Essays, The European Philosophers from Descartes to Nietzsche, Metaphysics, Truth: A Guide, Evolution as a Religion (Routledge Classics), Utilitarianism and Other Essays, The Atheist's Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life without Illusions, How to Read Kierkegaard
| Author | Plato |
| ISBN | 0140449035 |
Exploring the question of what exactly makes good people good, Protagoras and Meno are two of the most enjoyable and accessible of all of Plato's dialogues. Widely regarded as his finest dramatic work, the Protagoras, set during the golden age of Pericles, pits a youthful Socrates against the revered...
Beginning with the death of Socrates in 399 BC, and following the story through the centuries to recent figures such as Bertrand Russell and Wittgenstein, Bryan Magee's conversations with 15 contemporary writers and philosophers provide an account of Western philosophy and its greatest thinkers....
| Author | David Hume |
| ISBN | 0192836218 |
In his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collection, drawing largely on his Essays Mortal, Political, and Literary (1776 edition), comprehensively shows how far he succeeded.
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| Author | Monroe C. Beardsley |
| ISBN | 0375758046 |
“Between the earliest and the latest of the works included here, we have two hundred and fifty years of vigorous and adventurous philosophizing,” Monroe Beardsley writes in his Introduction to this collection. “If the modern period can be only vaguely or arbitrarily bounded, it can at least...
| Author | Peter van Inwagen |
| ISBN | 0813390559 |
In this classic, exciting, and thoughtful text, Metaphysics , Peter van Inwagen examines three profound questions: What are the most general features of the world? Why is there a world? and What is the place of human beings in the world? Metaphysics introduces to readers the curious notion that is metaphysics,...
| Author | Simon Blackburn |
| ISBN | 0195315804 |
The author of the highly popular book Think, which Time magazine hailed as "the one book every smart person should read to understand, and even enjoy, the key questions of philosophy," Simon Blackburn is that rara avis--an eminent thinker who is able to explain philosophy to the general reader. Now...
| Author | Mary Midgley |
| ISBN | 0415278333 |
According to The Guardian, Midgley is 'the foremost scourge of scientific pretentions in this country; someone whose wit is admired even by those who fee she sometimes oversteps the mark'. This book examines how science comes to be used as a substitute for religion and points out how badly that role...
| Author | John Stuart Mill |
| ISBN | 0140432728 |
Clear, eloquent and profound, Mill's Utilitarianism has had an enormous influence on moral philosophy and is the idea introduction to ethics.
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) was a reformer who applied the test of utility to the law and politics of his day. Legislators must aim at 'the greatest happiness...
| Author | Alex Rosenberg |
| ISBN | 0393080234 |
We can't avoid the persistent questions about the meaning of life-and the nature of reality. Philosopher Alex Rosenberg maintains that science is the only thing that can really answer them—all of them. His bracing and ultimately upbeat book takes physics seriously as the complete description...
| Author | John D. Caputo |
| ISBN | 1862079153 |
خیلی آموزنده بود. مخصوصاً در مورد سپهر اخلاقی و زیباپرستی نکات جدید و جذابی گفته بود که توی چهار پنج کتابی که راجع به کیرکگور خونده بودم، اشاره ای به این نکات...
| Author | Ray Monk |
| ISBN | 0393328201 |
Approaching the writing of major intellectuals, artists, and philosophers need no longer be daunting. How to Read is a new sort of introduction--a personal master class in reading--that brings you face to face with the work of some of the most influential and challenging writers in history. In lucid,...
| Author | John Leslie Mackie |
| ISBN | 0140135588 |
Recently, I decided to delve into meta-ethics, more specifically twentieth century-meta-ethics. With the fear of over-generalizing, up to the twentieth century ethics was pretty straightforward. There were: ethics rooted in metaphysics (Christianity, Kant, Spinoza, etc.); ethics rooted...
| Author | Étienne Gilson |
| ISBN | 0300092997 |
In this classic work, the eminent Catholic philosopher Étienne Gilson deals with one of the most important and perplexing metaphysical problems: the relation between our notion of God and demonstrations of his existence. Gilson examines Greek, Christian, and modern philosophy as well as the thinking...
| Author | Peter Singer |
| ISBN | 0631187855 |
In this volume, some of today's most distinguished philosophers survey the whole field of ethics, from its origins, through the great ethical traditions, to theories of how we ought to live, arguments about specific ethical issues, and the nature of ethics itself. The book can be read straight through...
Sir Anthony Kenny here continues his fascinating account of the history of philosophy, focusing on the thousand-year-long medieval period. This is the second volume of a four-book set in which Kenny will unfold a magisterial new history of Western philosophy, the first major single-author history...
| Author | Alvin Plantinga |
| ISBN | 0801497353 |
In this book Alvin Plantinga wrestles with one of the central issues in the philosophy of religion: can belief in God be rationally justified? Plantinga reviews in detail the traditional and modern arguments for and against the existence of God and concludes that all fail. He then turns to the related...
| Author | R.J. Hollingdale |
| ISBN | 0521002958 |
Hollingdale's biography remains the single best account of the life and works for the student or nonspecialist. This classic biography of Nietzsche was first published in the 1960s and was enthusiastically reviewed at the time. Long out of print, it is now reissued with its text updated in the light...
Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction
| Author | Michael J. Loux |
| ISBN | 0415401348 |
Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction is aimed at students of metaphysics who have already completed an introductory philosophy course. This third edition of the successful textbook provides a fresh look at key topics in metaphysics and includes two new chapters on time and causation.
Wherever...
| Author | Alasdair MacIntyre |
| ISBN | 0415173981 |
In this classic work, Alasdair MacIntyre guides the reader through the history of moral philosophy from the Greeks to contemporary times. He emphasizes the importance of a historical context to moral concepts and ideas. MacIntyre illustrates the relevance of philosophical queries on moral concepts...
| Author | Josef Pieper |
| ISBN | 0898703190 |
One of the great philosophers of the 20th Century, Josef Pieper, gives a penetrating introduction and guide to the life and works of perhaps the greatest philosopher ever, St. Thomas Aquinas. Pieper provides a biography of Aquinas, an overview of the 13th century he lived in, and a wonderful synthesis...
| Author | Roger Scruton |
| ISBN | 0140275169 |
"Remarkable" said "The Wall Street Journal" about Roger Scruton's "Modern Philosophy." "It will be enjoyed by academic specialists and armchair philosophers alike." Now this emminent philosopher takes the discipline beyond theory and "intellectualism, " presenting it in an empirical, accessible,...
