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Including Hindu, Buddhist, Chinese, African, Native American, Islamic, Jewish, and feminist philosophies, this text promotes a multicultural approach to philosophy through the reading of primary sources. In ten chapters organized by the important questions of life that philosophers seek to answer, the text presents students with a broad array of classic and contemporary readings that will foster their understanding of the world and challenge them to critically evaluate issues.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: What Is Philosophy? Barry Schwartz: "Tolerance." 1. How Should One Live? The Buddha: "The Four Noble Truths." Walpola Rahula: "The Fourth Noble Truth." Confucius: "Analects". Plato: "The Apology." Aristotle: "Nicomachean Ethics." "Bhagavad-Gita." Eagle Man: "We Are All Related." 2. How Can I Know What Is Right? Introduction. Immanuel Kant: "Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals." John Stuart Mill: "What Utilitarianism Is." Friedrich Nietzsche: "Beyond Good and Evil." Rita Manning: "Just Caring. 3. What Makes Society Just? Introduction. Abu'l A'la Mwdudi: "Political Theory of Islam." John Stuart Mill: "On Liberty." Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: "Manifesto of the Communist Party." Plato: "Crito." Martin Luther King, Jr.: "Letter from Birmingham Jail." Paulo Freire: "Pedagogy of the Oppressed." 4. Is Justice for All Possible? Introduction. Potter Stewart: "Majority Opinion in Gregg v. Georgia." Thurgood Marshall: "Dissenting Opinion in Gregg v. Marshall." J. Gay-Williams: "The Wrongfulness Euthanasia." Carl B. Becker: "Buddhist Views of Suicide and Euthanasia." Michael Levin: "Feminism and Freedom." Susan Leigh Anderson: "Equal Opportunity, Freedom, and Sex-Stereotyping." Daniel C. Palm: "Homosexuality, Public Health, and Civil Rights." Richard E. Mohr: "Gay Basics: Some Questions, Facts, and Values." Peter Singer: "All Animals Are Equal." Bonnie Steinbock: "Speciesism the Idea of Equality." 5. Introduction. Robert Blathchford: "Not Guilty." Jean-Paul Sartre: "Existentialism." Sarvepalli Radhkrishnan: "Karma and Freedom." Raymond M. Smullyan: "Is God a Taoist?" 6. Introduction. Lao Tzu: "Tao Te Ching." Plato: "Republic." Shankara: "The Crest-Jewel of Discrimination." George Berkeley: "The Principles of Human Knowledge." Hugh Elliot: "Modern Science and Materialism." Jorge Luis Borges: "The Circular Ruins." 7. Is Knowledge Possible? Introduction. Al-Ghazali: "Deliverance From Error." Rene Descartes: "Meditations I & II." David Hume: "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding." William K. Clifford: "The Ethics of Belief." William James: "The Will to Believe." B. K. Matilal: "Perception: An Essay on Classical Indian Theories of Knowledge." Patricia Hill Collins: "Toward an Afrocentric Feminist Epistemology." 8. Is There a God? Introduction. Maimonides: "Guide for the Perplexed." St. Thomas Aquinas: "Summa Theologica." Victor Weisskopf: "The Origin of the Universe." Rene Descartes: "Meditation V." William Paley: "The Watch: The Watchmaker: The World: God." Richard Dawkins: "The Blind Watchmaker." Mary Daly: "Beyond God the Father." 9. Why Evil? Introduction. Mencius: "Human Nature is Good." Hsun Tzu: "Human Nature is Evil." Christmas Hurmphreys: "What Karma Explains." Kwame Gyekye: "The Problem of Evil." B. C. Johnson: "God and the Problem of Evil." Emi Fackenheim: "Jewish Faith and the Holocaust: A Fragment." 10. Who Am I and Can I Survive Death?


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780534525422
  • Publisher: Cengage Learning, Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • Sub Title: A Multicultural Philosophy Reader
  • Width: 197 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0534525423
  • Publisher Date: 16 Jul 1997
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 241 mm
  • Weight: 839 gr


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