common sense ethics

By Nakul Krishna

'Where should we start in philosophy?' the acolyte asks the Zen Master. 'From

where we are', the master replies. The exchange suggests an attractive conceit:

philosophy as a journey, the philosopher as traveller. Like other poetic conceits, it

can be elaborated endlessly, to illuminating, puzzling or comic effect. For instance,

it is possible to ask, in the terms of this conceit, why leave home at all? Some

specific domestic discontent, perhaps, or something vaguer, call it wanderlust. To

go where? Somewhere better than, at any rate different from, home, maybe to

return in the end, maybe not. What in the philosophy side of the conceit is home?

Here, philosophical terminology suggests some candidate answers. Metaphysicians

in what is loosely called the analytic tradition speak of 'na?ve metaphysics',

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1805260731
• ISBN13: 9781805260738
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Hrithik
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"