A History of Western Philosophy Book 7

Book 7: Political Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, and Questions we are still asking
Part 10: Political Philosophy from the Ancient Greeks to Modern Times: Political philosophy examines political concepts such as liberty, justice, human rights and other principles supporting the laws designed by governments to regulate the operation of the State. The main political ideologies that have dominated political systems at different times throughout the last 2,500 years are analysed and evaluated. These ideologies are Liberalism, Conservatism, Socialism, Communitarianism, Anarchism, Libertarianism, Communism and Fascism. The ideas of the major political philosophers from Plato to the present are outlined and evaluated.

Part 11: (i) Moral Philosophy and Contemporary Ethics: I focus on the major work of two Australian philosophers, Peter Singer and Clive Hamilton: Singer's How Are We to Live? Ethics in an Age of Self-interest and One World: the ethics of globalisation; and Hamilton's The Freedom Paradox: Towards a Post-Secular Ethics.

Part 11: (ii) Questions we are still asking: We look at the problems of understanding the concepts of time and space; the difference between tensed and untensed time; the relationship between the self, time and free will; free will and determinism; the as-yet unsolved problem of the relationship between Einsteinian relativity and quantum mechanics; Martin Heidegger's conception of the relationship between time and the nature of human being; the universe and our relationship with it (Why does our world exist? and Why is there something rather than nothing?); the relationship between consciousness, mind and brain; and, finally, the philosophical pursuit of truth.

ISBN 9781925169218

Author: Jack Thomson,
Publisher: Phoenix