Reading Philosophy: Selected Texts with a Method for Beginners

by Samuel Guttenplan, Jennifer Hornsby, Christopher Janaway

A key introductory philosophy textbook, making use of an innovative, interactive technique for reading philosophical texts   Reading Selected Texts with a Method for Beginners, Second Edition,  provides a unique approach to reading philosophy, requiring students to engage with material as they read. It contains carefully selected texts, commentaries on those texts, and questions for the reader to think about as they read. It serves as starting points for both classroom discussion and independent study. The texts cover a wide range of topics drawn from diverse areas of philosophical investigation, ranging over ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, aesthetics, and political philosophy.  This edition has been updated and expanded. New chapters discuss the moral significance of friendship and love, the subjective nature of consciousness and the ways that science might explore conscious experience. And there are new texts and commentary in chapters on doubt, self and moral dilemmas. This book   is an ideal resource for beginning students in philosophy, as well as for anyone wishing to engage with the subject on their own.   

Genres: Philosophy, Nonfiction

352 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2002

Reviews

[HM · Rating 4 out of 5]

An attractive outset for a beginner like me who prefers to start with questions and concepts, rather than chronological history of philosophy.

از روش کتاب برای شروع فلسفه خوانی، لذت می برم و این ایده به ذهنم رسید که یا ترجمه اش کنم یا با اقتباس از آن دنبال گرداوری کتابی از مفاعیم فلسفی به زبان ساده و موجز باشم . مفاهیم و مباحث اصلی فلسفه چون

فلسفه چیست ؟
تردید و شک
مرگ
غشق
زمان
هنرو زیبایی
عدالت و آزادی
اخلاق
هویت
شناخت
هستی
...

اگرچه فصل های کتاب اصلی عبارتند از

شک
خود
تراژدی
برابری
تناقض
هویت
آزادی
علیت
کیفیات

در هر فصل پس از معرفی کوتاه موضوع، متن مرتبط و ساده ای از فیلسوف هایی چون دکارت، لاک ، هیوم و کانت و سایرین را با کمی ویرایش و ساده سازی می آید و بعد نویسندگان از خواننده سئوالاتی می پرسند و شرح و توضیحات تکمیلی خود را ارایه و منابع بیشتر مبحث را معرفی می کنند

[Anandvaidya · Rating 5 out of 5]

Emmencely helpful

The selection of passages!
It's as if you are being served with the gist of the Author's argument. Saving you from going through outdated language of the masters and exactly landing you at the crux of the argument.
I recommend this book to everyone interested in the deeper problems of human existence

Anand