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An Approach to Philosophy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 February 2009
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The first important question which confronts the teacher of an introductory course in philosophy is likely to be the question as to how he may best approach the subject of what philosophy is, how to approach it in such a way as to pique the curiosity and excite the interest of the student from the beginning. After considering this question many times, it has recently occurred to the present writer that it might be helpful to make this approach by way of a parable, an allegorical account of what seem to be the three basic human desires—the desire to live, the desire to enjoy life, and the desire to understand life. He accordingly offers this suggestion for whatever it may be worth, and presents the following little tale as at least one possible working-out of that suggestion.
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page 69 note 1 To call these “conceptions of the human mind” does not, of course, imply that they are only human conceptions; any more than to speak of “man's conception of the universe” implies the non-existence of the external world!