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The Tasks of Philosophy

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  • Page extent: 248 pages
  • Size: 228 x 152 mm
  • Weight: 0.406 kg

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 (ISBN-13: 9780521670616 | ISBN-10: 0521670616)




Contents

Preface page vii
Acknowledgments xiv
PART I  DEFINING A PHILOSOPHICAL STANCE
1 Epistemological crises, dramatic narrative, and the philosophy of science 3
2 Colors, cultures, and practices 24
3 Moral relativism, truth, and justification 52
4 Hegel on faces and skulls 74
5 What is a human body? 86
6 Moral philosophy and contemporary social practice: what holds them apart? 104
PART II  THE ENDS OF PHILOSOPHICAL ENQUIRY
7 The ends of life, the ends of philosophical writing 125
8 First principles, final ends, and contemporary philosophical issues 143
9 Philosophy recalled to its tasks: a Thomistic reading of Fides et Ratio 179
10 Truth as a good: a reflection on Fides et Ratio 197
Index 216

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