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Philosophy & Living - Softcover

Blumenau, Ralph

 
9780907845331: Philosophy & Living
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0907845339 ISBN 13: 9780907845331
Publisher: Imprint Academic, 2002

Synopsis

Philosophy can be very abstract and apparently remote from our everyday concerns. In this book Ralph Blumenau brings out for the non-specialist the bearing that thinkers of the past have on the way we live now, on the attitude we have towards our lives, towards each other and our society, towards God and towards the ethical problems that confront us. The focus of the book is those aspects of the history of ideas which have something to say to our present preoccupations. After expounding the ideas of a particular thinker there follows a discussion of the material and how it relates to issues that are still alive today (indented from the margin and set in a different typeface), based on the author's classroom debates with his own students. Another feature of the book is the many footnotes which refer the reader back to earlier, and forward to later, pages of the book. They are intended to reinforce the idea that throughout the centuries philosophers have often grappled with the same problems, sometimes coming up with similar approaches and sometimes with radically different ones.

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About the Author

Ralph Blumenau was Head of the History Department at Malvern College. Since his retirement in 1985 he has been teaching senior citizens at the University of the Third Age in London, where one of his courses is the History of Philosophy.

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Publisher
Imprint Academic
Publication date
2002
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0907845339
ISBN 13 
9780907845331
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
620