Logic: The Art of Defining and Reasoning (2nd Edition) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a "classic" introduction to classical logic. This book is important for today in understanding not only the foundations of logic itself but also in contrasting the traditional Aristoltelian logic with the modern symbolic versions. Oesterle defends the classical viewpoints such as the Square of Opposition from modern critics by showing that modern logic is too abstract and lacks intentionality towards real things, with the result for symbolic logic being what Henry B. Veatch called a "logic that can't say what anything is".
Classical logic as presented here is overdue for a comeback in thinking circles.

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The Story of Ethics: Fulfilling Our Human Nature Review

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(More customer reviews)For college students that don't have much time for a lot of reading, this text offers a nice summary of the key philosophical views from the ancients to Rorty and Gilligan. It presents them in a no nonsense historical progression. Some short original paragraphs are included.

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This book provides readers with an excellent introduction to the history of ethics. The authors examine the ethical philosophies of prominent Western thinkers—from the ancients through the twentieth century—within the context of their views of human nature and human fulfillment. They do so in a way that is both accessible and engaging without sacrificing the profundity of the issues raised. A five-part organization covers the Homeric tradition, the Sophists, Plato, Aristotle, Christianity, Neoplatonism, Augustine, the Euthyphro problem, revolutions and reformations, Thomas Hobbes, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Mary Wollstonecraft, Hegelianism and Materialism, Karl Marx, John Stuart Mill, Soren Kierkegaard, Darwinism, Friedrich Nietzsche, G. E. Moore, A.J. Ayer, Jean-Paul Sartre, Elizabeth Anscombe, John Rawls, Alasdair MacIntyre, Carol Gilligan, Richard Rorty, and a conclusion about human nature, morality & fulfillment. For individuals who want to better formulate their own answers and frame their own decisions, both large and small, within the all important context of what it means to flourish as a human being.

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The World's Religions: Worldviews and Contemporary Issues (3rd Edition) Review

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(More customer reviews)This book came in great condition. It was also filled with very useful information that is not opinionated, but open minded.

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For courses in World Religions or Comparative Religions. This introduction to the world's religions provides an orientation to the study of religion; surveys the stages of development, worldviews, and current situations of the major world religions; and discusses the ways these religions respond to contemporary ethical issues. It also presents a sampling of new religious movements and looks to the possible ways the world's religions may interact in the 21st century. Its distinctive "framework for understanding" religious worldviews allows students to compare and contrast the teachings of religions objectively.

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