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CHAPTER 1: Introduction to the Philosophical Journey: Where Are We Going and How Will We Get There? 1.0 Overview of the Journey 1.1 Socrates and the Search for Wisdom<br/>From Plato, Apology<br/>From Plato, Republic 1.2 Plato's Allegory of the Cave<br/>From Plato, Republic 1.3 Argument and Evidence: How Do I Decide What to Believe? CHAPTER 2: The Search for Knowledge 2.0 Overview of the Problem of Knowledge 2.1 Skepticism<br/>From Rene Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy<br/>From Rene Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy 2.2 Rationalism<br/>From Plato, Phaedo<br/>From Rene Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy 2.3 Empiricism<br/>From John Locke, An Essay concerning Human Understanding<br/>From George Berkeley, A Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge<br/>From David Hume, An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding<br/>From David Hume, An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding<br/>From David Hume, An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding<br/>From David Hume, An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding<br/>From David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature 2.4 Kantian Constructivism<br/>From Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason<br/>From Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason 2.5 Epistemological Relativism<br/>From Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil 2.6 Rethinking the Western Tradition: Pragmatism<br/>From William James, Pragmatism's Conception of Truth 2.7 Rethinking the Western Tradition: Feminist Epistemology<br/>From Ann Garry and Marilyn Pearsall, Women, Knowledge, and Reality CHAPTER 3: The Search for Ultimate Reality 3.0 Overview of Metaphysics 3.1 Overview: The Mind-Body Problem<br/>From Hugh Elliot, Tantalus 3.2 Dualism<br/>From Rene Descartes, Discourse on the Method<br/>From Rene Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy<br/>From Rene Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy 3.3 Physicalism<br/>From Jeffrey Olen, Persons and Their World 3.4 Functionalism and Artificial Intelligence<br/>From Jerry Fodor, The Mind-Body Problem<br/>From Marvin Minsky, Why People Think Computers Can't 3.5 Overview: Freedom and Determinism 3.6 Hard Determinism<br/>From B.F. Skinner, Walden Two<br/>From Samuel Butler, Erewhon<br/>From Clarence Darrow, The Leopold and Loeb Trial 3.7 Libertarianism<br/>From Richard Taylor, Metaphysics<br/>From Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness 3.8 Compatibilism<br/>From Walter T. Stace, Religion and the Modern Mind CHAPTER 4: The Search for God 4.0 Overview of Philosophy of Religion<br/>From Peter Kreeft, Does God Exist? 4.1 The Cosmological Argument for God<br/>From Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica<br/>From Richard Taylor, Metaphysics 4.2 The Design Argument for God<br/>From William Paley, Natural Theology<br/>From David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Human Religion 4.3 The Ontological Argument for God<br/>From St. Anselm, Proslogium 4.4 Pragmatic and Subjective Justifications of Religious Belief<br/>From Blaise Pascal, Thoughts<br/>From William James, The Will to Believe<br/>From Soren Kierkegaard, Selections 4.5 The Problem of Evil: Atheistic and Theistic Responses<br/>From Albert Camus, The Plague<br/>From John Hick, Evil and the God of Love<br/>From C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain CHAPTER 5: The Search for Ethical Values 5.0 Overview of Ethics<br/>From Plato, Republic 5.1 Ethical Relativism versus Objectivism<br/>From Herodotus, The Histories<br/>From Ruth Benedict, Anthropology and the Abnormal<br/>From James Rachels, The Challenge of Cultural Relativism 5.2 Ethical Egoism<br/>From W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage<br/>From Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness 5.3 Utilitarianism<br/>From Jeremy Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation<br/>From John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism<br/>From Alistair Norcross, Comparing Harms: Headaches and Human Lives 5.4 Kantian Ethics<br/>From Immanuel Kant, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals 5.5 Virtue Ethics<br/>From Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics<br/>From Confucius, The Analects<br/>From Janet Smith, Moral Character and Abortion 5.6 Rethinking the Western Tradition: Feminist Ethics<br/>From Carol Gilligan, In a Different Voice<br/>From Marilyn Friedman, Liberating Care CHAPTER 6: The Search for the Just Society 6.0 Overview of Political Philosophy 6.1 The Justification of Government<br/>From Robert Paul Wolff, In Defense of Anarchism<br/>From Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan<br/>From John Locke, An Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent and End of Civil Government<br/>From The Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776) 6.2 The Question of Justice<br/>From Plato, Republic<br/>From Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica<br/>From John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism<br/>From John Rawls, A Theory of Justice<br/>From Susan Moller Okin, Justice, Gender, and the Family 6.3 The Individual and the State<br/>From John Stuart Mill, On Liberty<br/>From Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Communist Manifesto 6.4 Civil Disobedience<br/>From Plato, Crito<br/>From Mohandas Gandhi, Young India<br/>From Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail CHAPTER 7: Philosophy and the Meaning of Life<br/>From Leo Tolstoy, My Confession<br/>From Hazel E. Barnes, An Existentialist Ethics APPENDIX: Reasoning Effectively: What to Do and What Not to Do Credits Index<br/><br/>Library of Congress subject headings for this publication:<br/>Philosophy -- Introductions. |