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ROOTS OF WISDOM invites you to explore many thought-provoking insights of critical philosophical inquiry. No other book offers such breadth of multicultural coverage coupled with the clear, concise, and approachable writing style that Mitchell offers. Women philosophers and non-Western philosophies are integrated throughout as they relate to the canon. Mitchell uses popular culture to illustrate timeless philosophical problems, using extremely accessible examples of cartoons, poetry, movies, and references to popular music that bring the issues of philosophy to life. This new edition further integrates the multicultural themes and non-Western perspectives with greater attention paid to the Peoples of the Americas thread and a broadened focus on non-Western concepts of reality.
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With cartoons, biographical sketches, selections of original texts and new materials on indigenous thought, Islam and assimilation/separatism, Mitchell (philosophy, Howard Community College) keeps universal issues of critical philosophy current. She gives the basics on metaphysics, Western philosophy in a worldwide context, the purpose of philosophy, and reality and being, then details early Christianity, including perceptions of human nature and ultimate reality, the medieval to the modern world, including epistemology, truth, aesthetics, and values, and the modern world's particular takes on political and social philosophy, ethics, and the revolution of thought. Mitchell includes exercises linking material to current issues, study and discussion questions, further readings for each topic, a glossary and companion student website. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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