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About this book
A provocative sequel to The Torchlight List, this book examines the answers that thinkers throughout the agesāfrom Plato in ancient Greece to contemporary psychologists and scientistsāhave proposed for life's great questions: Do human beings have free will? Is a good society possible? Is patriotism ethical? and Ā Can modern science penetrate the mind? Exploring the moral ideals, attitudes, and religious beliefs that affect everyday life, this account is an exhilarating introduction to philosophy and a manual for becoming a fully alive member of the human race. It is also a stunning exploration of the challenges that 21st-century scienceāfrom brain research to the discovery of dark matter in the universeāpose to long-held philosophic beliefs.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- On becoming a philosopher
- WHAT IS GOOD?
- Does a moral reality tell us what is good?
- Does moral language tell us what is good?
- Does economics tell us what is good?
- Do we tell ourselves what is good?
- Can we debate what is good?
- WHAT IS POSSIBLE?
- Is the good society possible?
- Is free will possible?
- What if both possibilities are open?
- Are spontaneous occurrences possible?
- WHAT EXISTS?
- Does sense experience tell us what exists?
- Do instruments tell us what exists?
- Has science taught us what exists?
- Does God exist?
- Does the absolute exist?
- Changing the person you are
- Further reading
- Teasers
- Acknowledgements
- Also by Jim Flynn
- The Torchlight List
- Copyright