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Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- List of Abbreviations xi
- Acknowledgments xiii
- Introduction 1
- Prologue 17
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Part I: Mind and Reality
- 1 The Impotent Mind 35
- 2 Santayana’s Philosophy of Mind 47
- 3 Fichte’s Idealism 69
- 4 Peirce, Santayana, and the Large Facts 85
- 5 The Transcendence of Materialism and Idealism in American Thought 97
- 6 Primitive Naturalism 113
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Part II: Self and Society
- 7 Two Views of Happiness in Mill 125
- 8 Questions of Life and Death 131
- 9 On Selling Organs 139
- 10 A Community of Psyches 145
- 11 The Cost of Community 159
- 12 Public Benefit, Private Cost 173
- 13 Leaving Others Alone 201
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Part III: Pluralism and Choice-Inclusive Facts
- 14 Relativism and Its Benefits 219
- 15 The Element of Choice in Criteria of Death 231
- 16 Human Natures 251
- 17 Persons and Different Kinds of Persons 267
- 18 Grand Dreams of Perfect People 277
- 19 Philosophical Pluralism 287
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Part IV: Meaningful Living
- 20 To Have and to Be 303
- 21 Drugs: Th e Fallacy of Avoidable Consequences 313
- 22 Loving Life 319
- 23 Aristotle and Dewey on the Rat Race 331
- 24 Improving Life 347
- 25 Stoic Pragmatism 363
- 26 Pragmatism and Death 377
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Part V: Human Advance and Finite Obligation
- 27 The Relevance of Philosophy to Life 389
- 28 Both Better Off and Better 399
- 29 Education in the Twenty- First Century (with Shirley M. Lachs) 413
- 30 Learning About Possibility 425
- 31 Moral Holidays 435
- 32 Good Enough 449
- Epilogue 459
- Notes 475
- Further Reading 485
- Index 495
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- List of Abbreviations xi
- Acknowledgments xiii
- Introduction 1
- Prologue 17
-
Part I: Mind and Reality
- 1 The Impotent Mind 35
- 2 Santayana’s Philosophy of Mind 47
- 3 Fichte’s Idealism 69
- 4 Peirce, Santayana, and the Large Facts 85
- 5 The Transcendence of Materialism and Idealism in American Thought 97
- 6 Primitive Naturalism 113
-
Part II: Self and Society
- 7 Two Views of Happiness in Mill 125
- 8 Questions of Life and Death 131
- 9 On Selling Organs 139
- 10 A Community of Psyches 145
- 11 The Cost of Community 159
- 12 Public Benefit, Private Cost 173
- 13 Leaving Others Alone 201
-
Part III: Pluralism and Choice-Inclusive Facts
- 14 Relativism and Its Benefits 219
- 15 The Element of Choice in Criteria of Death 231
- 16 Human Natures 251
- 17 Persons and Different Kinds of Persons 267
- 18 Grand Dreams of Perfect People 277
- 19 Philosophical Pluralism 287
-
Part IV: Meaningful Living
- 20 To Have and to Be 303
- 21 Drugs: Th e Fallacy of Avoidable Consequences 313
- 22 Loving Life 319
- 23 Aristotle and Dewey on the Rat Race 331
- 24 Improving Life 347
- 25 Stoic Pragmatism 363
- 26 Pragmatism and Death 377
-
Part V: Human Advance and Finite Obligation
- 27 The Relevance of Philosophy to Life 389
- 28 Both Better Off and Better 399
- 29 Education in the Twenty- First Century (with Shirley M. Lachs) 413
- 30 Learning About Possibility 425
- 31 Moral Holidays 435
- 32 Good Enough 449
- Epilogue 459
- Notes 475
- Further Reading 485
- Index 495