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Logic
The First Art
Yu Kam Por
ISBN 9780071256247 • MHID 0071256245 • 2007 • Softcover • 248pp
This book contains a lot of everyday examples, more than a logic text
usually does. It emphasizes the application of logic, featuring logic as both
an academic and a practical subject. This is a text written in English, but it
is especially suitable for students in Chinese society, as the Chinese cultural
background shapes some of the illustrations and presentation. In addition
to arguments, logic puzzles and other applications of logic are featured in
the text. Diversity of methods is a key characteristic of this book. Different
methods that can be used to solve the same problem are introduced, and
their merits and limitations discussed. It is the aim of this book to provide
readers with training in thinking methods, not just knowledge of the
techniques of logic. This book is also perhaps the first book ever to make
use of Edwards-Venn diagrams to solve problems in syllogistic logic that
have more than three terms.
Meaning of Life
Edited by Julia Tao and Hektor K.T. Yan
ISBN 9780071248990 • MHID 0071248994 • 2006 • Softcover • 440pp
This book is an invitation to step outside the flow of life for a time, to reflect
on things normally taken for granted – life and death, love and sex, morality
and religion, art and science – and to gain a degree of understanding of the
full meaning of our humanity.
It is written in a lively, non-technical and discursive style to engage a general
audience that is drawn to philosophy, and to throw light on fundamental
questions of life and how it should be lived.
Dialogues, philosophical stories, thought experiments, illustrations and
literary and dramatic works are employed to make this book a highly
accessible introduction. This way of doing philosophy offers a pleasurable
experience for those who are encountering philosophy seriously for the first
time in their lives.
Primarily written as an undergraduate textbook, Meaning of Life can also
be adopted in secondary schools. It provides lessons in moral reasoning,
conceptual analysis and philosophical evaluation of the good life in both
the West and the East, from Aristotelian and Christian to Confucian and
Daoist traditions.
Meaning of Life shows how philosophy can make a difference to our
understanding of life and meaning, and is an important read in the pursuit
of the good life itself.