James A. Harold

Introduction to the Love of Wisdom

An Essential and Existential Approach to Philosophy

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9780761830061
• ISBN-10: 0761830065
• Artikelnr.: 21622611

Autorenporträt

James A. Harold is Professor of Philosophy at Franciscan University of Steubenville. Professor Harold graduated from Pepperdine University (M.A., Psychology), University of Dallas (M.A. Philosophy), with a doctorate in Philosophy from the International Academy of Philosophy. He is the author of two books: An Introduction to the Love of Wisdom (UPA, 2004) and Rationality Within Modern Psychological Theory: Integrating Philosophy and Empirical Science (Lexington, 2016). Harold, with his wife Teresa, are living in Steubenville, Ohio. They have four children and twenty-four grandchildren.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Acknowledgments
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 Philosophy and Our Everyday Life
Chapter 4 Basics of Being
Chapter 5 The Human Person
Chapter 6 Empirical and Philosophical Methodologies
Chapter 7 God-The Supreme Being?
Chapter 8 Value as the Basis for the Moral Law
Chapter 9 Morality and Person
Chapter 10 Appearances, Illusions, and Realities
Chapter 11 Fullness of Human Life
Chapter 12 A Philosophy of Conversion
Chapter 13 How to Write a Philosophy Paper
Chapter 14 Dictionary of Terms
Chapter 15 Index