Plato's sun: an introduction to philosophy

1. What is philosophy?

2. Metaphysics : the search for the God's-eye view

3. Wittgenstein's ladder : the modern reaction to metaphysics

4. Epistomology : the ghost in the metaphysical machine?

5. Logic and its place in the universe

6. Ethics : the good, the bad, and the beautiful

7. Philosophy and language : the house of being

App. 1. twelve-coin puzzle and the paradox of the heap

App. 2. Ethics and the 'other'.