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Avoiding the dry and tedious Professor Shenefelt strives to capture what isinteresting and engaging in philosophy by strolling with the reader down thedisciplines royal road. He explains a how Plato and Kant deal with thetimeless question Why be moral? b how Aristotle and the Stoics answer thequestion What is the good life? and c how Jeremy Bentham who provided inhis will for his own mummification tries to reduce all moral questions to amathematical calculus of pleasure over pain.Shenefelt writes for those with no formal training in the field but alsoengages the specialist expounding for example Edmund Burkes attack onsystematic moral theory an attack that the author thinks is no less cogenttoday. He also relates Adam Smiths explanation of Europes extraordinary power an explanation that traces Europes political and economic dominance toaccidents of geography. And these same geographical accidents he says showwhy so many philosophical classics happen to come from Europeans.In a conversational tone The Questions of Moral Philosophy discusses most ofthe authors typically assigned in a western civilization course covering notonly epistemology and metaphysics but uniquely morality and politics aswell. Professor Shenefelt connects great works of the past with the realproblems of today and draws from his nineteen years experience in teachingclassic literature first as a preceptor of Contemporary Civilization thewellknown survey of western civilization at Columbia University then as aMaster Teacher in New York Universitys General Studies Program. «
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