Being Philosophical

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Being Philosophical guides readers through the perplexing initial moments of meeting philosophy by taking them inside philosophical thinking as an activity. In a beginner-friendly voice, Stephen Hetherington elucidates how intellectual ‿tools‿ from a diversity of traditions, east and west, can enable us to start doing philosophy ‿ that is, to think ‿from scratch‿ in a philosophical way. He explores many classical topics and issues that have preoccupied philosophers from Plato, early Buddhists, and Confucius to Karl Marx and beyond ‿ selves, souls, identity, will, knowing and reasoning, among others ‿ and presents possible methods for responding to different theories. Inviting and conversational,  Being Philosophical is the book needed by every new philosophy student ‿ or anyone wondering whether they might want to explore the world of philosophy.