An Introduction to the Love of Wisdom: An Essential and Existential Approach to PhilosophyUniversity Press of America, 2004 - 370 páginas The purpose of this engaging book is twofold: to explain and justify the primary objects and methods of the discipline of philosophy, and to show how philosophy is relevant to a person's life and happiness. Both purposes are implied in the idea of wisdom in its theoretical and existential dimensions. Philosophy is the 'love of wisdom, ' and wisdom involves coming into a right relation to the world of beauty, goodness, and truth |
Contenido
Introduction | 1 |
Philosophy and Our Everyday Experience | 27 |
The Basics of Being | 53 |
The Human Person | 81 |
Empirical and Philosophical Methodologies | 109 |
GodThe Supreme Being? | 155 |
The Reality of Value as the Basis for the Moral Law | 191 |
Morality and Person | 221 |
Appearances Illusions and Realities | 251 |
Fullness of Human Life | 279 |
A Philosophy of Conversion | 309 |
How to Write a Philosophy Paper | 343 |
Dictionary of Terms | 351 |
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Términos y frases comunes
absolute action addiction Adeimantus analysis animal argument assert beauty beetle body C.S. Lewis causal cause chapter character claim concrete connatural contingent contrast Descartes Dietrich von Hildebrand dimension discussed distinction effect empirical sciences essence structure eternal ethical ethical relativism evil example existence of God existential explain fact freedom given happiness Hildebrand human person idea illusion individual inner unity insight insofar instance instincts intellectual intuition intelligibility investigate judgment justice knowledge lived experience meaning merely metaphysical moral values morally relevant motivation nature necessary essence needs objective objects philosophy one's ontological value perfect philosophy Plato possess possible presupposes principle principle of contradiction priori psyche pure question real existence reality realm reason refers relation scientific sense simply Socrates someone soul species spirit of wonder spiritual subjectively satisfying teleological argument term things tion transcendent true truth ultimate understanding universal value response Victor Frankl wisdom world of value