Physical Description:xxxii, 849 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. print
Edition:2nd ed.
Publisher:Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2008.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Pt. XI. Beauty and Art -- 1. Art and Imitation -- Republic / Plato -- 2. Nature and function of Dramatic Art -- Poetics / Aristotle -- 3. Idea of Beauty -- Inquiry concerning Beauty, Order, Harmony, Design / Francis Hutcheson -- 4. Aesthetic Appreciation -- Of the Standard of Taste / David Hume -- 5. Concept of the Beautiful -- Critique of judgement / Immanuel Kant -- 6. Metaphysics of Beauty -- On Aesthetics / Arthur Schopenhauer -- 7. Two Faces of Art -- Birth of Tragedy / Friedrich Nietzsche -- 8. Value of Art -- What is Art? / Leo Tolstoy -- 9. Imagination and Art -- Psychology of Imagination / Jean-Paul Sartre -- 10. What is Aesthetics? -- Lectures on Aesthetics / Ludwig Wittgenstein -- 11. Basis of Judgements of Taste -- Aesthetic Concepts / Frank Sibley -- 12. Artistic Representation and Reality -- Languages of Art / Nelson Goodman -- Pt. XII. Human Life and its Meaning -- 1. How to Accept Reality and Avoid Fear -- On the Nature of the Universe / Lucretius -- 2. Life Guided by Stoic Philosophy -- Moral Letters / Seneca -- 3. Meaning through Service to Others -- Confessions / Augustine -- 4. Contentment with the Human Lot -- On Experience / Michel de Montaigne -- 5. Human Condition, Wretched yet Redeemable -- Pensees / Blaise Pascal -- 6. Human Life as a Meaningless Struggle -- On the Vanity of Existence / Arthur Schopenhauer -- 7. Death of God and the Ascendancy of the Will -- Thus Spake Zarathustra / Friedrich Nietzsche -- 8. Idealism in a Godless Universe -- Free Man's Worship / Bertrand Russell -- 9. Futility and Defiance -- Myth of Sisyphus / Albert Camus -- 10. Involvement versus Detachment -- Absurd / Thomas Nagel -- 11. Religious Belief as Necessary for Meaning -- Absurdity of Life without God / William Lane Craig -- 12. Seeing our Lives as Part of the Process -- Philosophy's Life / Robert Nozick.
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