Philosophy For The Young



"An Introduction to Philosophy for Young People"

Doug McManaman
Copyright 2007
Reproduced with Permission

Synopsis: The typical university philosophy course today often gives students the impression that philosophical knowledge is radically inconclusive. But philosophy has a very important place in Catholic theological tradition. St. Thomas Aquinas calls philosophy the handmaiden of theology. This Online Introduction to Philosophy is designed to provide young people with a foundation that will allow them to become familiar with some of the most basic concepts that one finds within the tradition of Catholic philosophy, thus enabling them to navigate slowly through the murky waters of our post-modern culture without sinking.

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Table of Contents:

Chapter 01: What in the World is Philosophy?
Chapter 02: Some Points on Knowledge and Opinion
Chapter 03: A Note on Holding Truth in Common
Chapter 04: The First Three Self-Evident Principles
Chapter 05: Change, Principles, and the Absurd
Chapter 06: Ideological versus Philosophical Thinking
Chapter 07: An Introduction to Logic
Chapter 08: An Introduction to Universals
Chapter 09: An Introduction to Definitions
Chapter 10: An Introduction to the Idea of Happiness
Chapter 11: An Introduction to the Idea of the Soul
Chapter 12: Some Points on the Powers of the Soul
Chapter 13: Aristotle and the Good Life.
Chapter 14: More First Principles of Speculative Reason
Chapter 15: The Ten Categories of Being
Chapter 16: The Hylomorphic Doctrine
Chapter 17: A Brief Glance at Reductionism
Chapter 18: Essence and Existence
Chapter 19: The Existence of God
Chapter 20: Some Implications of God as Ipsum Esse Subsistens
Chapter 21: Is God the First Cause of Evil?
Chapter 22: The Immortality of the Soul
Chapter 23: The Purpose of Human Life
Chapter 24: Personhood, Integrity, and the Virtues
Chapter 25: The First Principles of Practical Reason
Chapter 26: A Note on the Difference Between Man and Brute

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APPENDIX

Appendix 01: What is wrong with Reductionism?
Appendix 02: Why Scientism is False
Appendix 03: Chance and Spontaneity
Appendix 04: Reductionism in Biology
Appendix 05: Reductionism and the Priority of Being
Appendix 06: Scientism, Assumption, and the Real
Appendix 07: An Analysis of Free Choice
Appendix 08: Truth in Perspective

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Taken from: http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/mcm/ph/ph_01philosophyyouth1.html