Philosophy for a New Generation Author:A. K. Bierman, James A. Gould This introductory philosophy collection presents relevant, pertinent and provocative essays on topics of utmost concern to the student of the 70's: drugs; revolutions - black, white, technological and sexual; war, and opposition to it; God - his death and/or existence; alienation, and the meaning and/or meaninglessness of life. The essays were c... more »hosen not only for their content, but also for their literary merit and their ability to stimulate discussion and to provoke interaction between the practical and intellectual worlds. Many of the authors of the essays are already well-known to students - Marcuse, Guevara, Paz, Pope Paul VI, Camus, Fromm, Cleaver, Fanon. Other authors are "classical" philosophers and thinkers (Newman, Bentham, Plato, Mill, Descartes, St. Thomas Aquinas and Hume), and still others are "contemporary" philosopher-thinkers (Westermarck, Wellman, Russell, and Baier). The essays present several sides of the issues, and are organized to present the current status of a particular problem and its philosophical basis.« less