CONTENTS
Acknowledgem ents x
Forew ord xi
PARTI
An Introduction to Clearer Thinking
Chapter 1 Attitudes: How They Affect Our
Thinking^3
Chapter 2 Classifying Viewpoints: Conservative
and Liberal 12
Chapter 3 Epistem ology and Logic^20
Chapter 4 Fallacies: Errors of Language
and Logic 32PART 2
Moral Philosophy: Ideas of Good
and Evil, Right and Wrong
Chapter 5 M oral Philosophy: A B rief
Introduction 47
Chapter 6 Plato and Aristotle: Idealism
and Realism 55
Chapter 7 Epicurus and Epictetus: Pleasure
and Apathy 65
Chapter 8 Aquinas and Descartes: Faith
and Reason 72
Chapter 9 Hume, Bentham and Mill:
Subjectivism and Utilitarianism 82