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Philosophy goes to the movies [electronic resource] : an introduction to philosophy / Christopher Falzon.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Falzon, Christopher, 1957-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
Subjects:
Philosophy > Introductions.
Philosophy in motion pictures.
Electronic books.
Philosophy.
Introductions.
Table of Contents:
  • Plato's cave
  • Descartes, dreams and demons
  • Rationalism and empiricism
  • Is seeing believing?
  • Kant and relativism
  • The truth and nothing but
  • Plato and the parts of the soul
  • Descartes and dualism
  • Locke and personal identity
  • Kant, personhood and moral worth
  • The ring of Gyges
  • Plato and inner balance
  • Religion and morality
  • Kant: doing one's duty
  • Utilitarianism
  • Existentialism: absurdity, freedom and bad faith
  • Plato's ants
  • Liberalism: the heroic individual
  • Marxism: the social individual
  • Three faces of power
  • Scientific utopias
  • Playing God: scientific hubris
  • Alienation in a technological society
  • Recent technology, new views
  • Reasoning and arguing
  • When arguments go wrong
  • Closed thinking
  • The importance of being critical.

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