David Stewart

H. Gene Blocker

Fundamentals of Philosophy offers a balance of expository text and readings. It organizes readings topically in a wide range of philosophical areas: Logic, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, social and political philosophy, philosophy of religion, esthetics, and non-western philosophy. It features a good blend of ancient, modern, and contemporary readings carefully edited for substance, length and readability. It includes study aids: suggestions for further reading, questions for discussion, and an extensive glossary. It also discusses the way non-western philosophies approach some basic problems. New to this edition: a chapter on the history of philosophy and a selection on critical thinking.

Fundamentals of Philosophy

This reader offers a broad scope and diversity of classic and contemporary selections -- and a narrative and format that presents difficult issues and readings in a simplified but not condescending manner. Covers the full range of philosophical questions. Organizes readings and narrative into topical sections, each of which addresses a particular facet of philosophical thought -- logic, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of religion, esthetics, and social/political philosophy. Represents a wide range of philosophical styles and temperaments -- from Kant, Berkeley, Hume, and Descartes to Tolstoy, Sartre and Susan Sontag.

Christopher L. Starling

By doing so, and by providing an overview of Japanese philosophy from the seventh century to the present, the authors contribute to a greater cross-cultural understanding between East and West."--BOOK JACKET.

Japanese Philosophy

Liyuan Zhu

Li-yüan Chu

This book is a collection of translations of recent work by contemporary Chinese aestheticians. Because of the relative isolation of China until recently, little is known of this rich and ongoing aesthetics tradition in China. Although some of the articles are concerned with the traditional ancient Chinese theories of art and beauty, many are inspired by Western aesthetics, including Marxism, and all are involved in cross-cultural comparisons of Chinese and Western aesthetic traditions.

Contemporary Chinese Aesthetics

The Metaphysics of Absurdity

An overview of Japanese philosophy from the seventh century to the present.

H. Gene Blocker

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