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The Fundamental Questions of Philosophy (Routledge Revivals)
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The Fundamental Questions of Philosophy (Routledge Revivals)
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First Published in 1951, this outline work on the theory of knowledge and metaphysics is intended both for university students who have recently started on the subject and for any who, without having the advantage of studying it at university, wish by private reading to acquire a general idea of its nature.
The book deals with all the main questions arising within the field in so far as they can be stated and discussed profitably and simply. The topics discussed include the place of reason in knowledge and life, the possibility of knowledge beyond sense-experience, the theory of perception, the relation of body and mind, alleged philosophical implications of recent scientific doctrines, the problem of evil and the existence of God.
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Index
Absolute, the, 138–40
theory of space and time, 143–4, 176
Accordance v. Correspondence
Action, philosophy and, 24–5
Activity theory of causation, 169–72
Aesthetics, 17
Affective side of our nature, 103–4
Analysis, philosophical, 17–18, 88 ff.
Analytic: synthetic propositions, 33 ff., 166
Antinomies, 147–53
A. priori, ch. II passim
Appearances, 132, 152–3
Aristotle on form: matter, 135
on the infinite, 150
on universals, 218
Arithmetic, 26–7, 34, 62
Arnold, Matthew, 118
Axioms, of Euclid, 34–5, 146–7
Behaviourism, 101–2
applied to belief, 106
Belief: knowledge, 51–2, 93
as psychological state, 104 ff.
undetermined? 191–2
Bergson, on time, 145
Berkeley, on matter, 73 ff., 83–4, 86, 138
on God, 83
on causation, 169–70
on universals, 216 ff.
use of ‘materialism’, 142
Body: mind, 101–2, 114–15, 123–36
Brain, 124, 125, 128, 132
Broad, Prof. C. D., 200
Buddhism, 245
Cause, ch. VIII passim
importance of idea, 12, 159
origin of idea, 43–4, 172
general principle that every change has a cause, 182 ff.
metaphysical arguments based on, 136–8, 170–1, 208, 209–10, 223–5, 231
Causal argument for physical objects, 80–7
Causal correction between body and mind, 123–9
Causation and freedom, ch. IX passim
Certainty, 49–50, 51–2, 99–100
Change: permanent, 97
Christianity, 11, 207
Cognitive side of our nature, 103–4
Coherence, 55–6...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Full Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- I. What Philosophy is and why it is Worth Studying
- II. The ‘A Priori’ and the Empirical
- III. Truth
- IV. Matter
- V. Mind
- VI. The Relation of Matter and Mind
- VII. Space and Time
- VIII. Cause
- IX. Freedom
- X. Monism v. Pluralism. Universals
- XI. God
- Bibliography
- Index