Fifty Readings in Philosophy

by ABEL

• ISBN13: 9780073535708
• ISBN10: 0073535702
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-06-07
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

Summary

This is a flexible and affordable collection of fifty of the most important classic and contemporary primary source readings in philosophy. Perfect for introductory or advanced students, the readings are organized topically and cover all the main disciplines of Western Philosophy: What is Philosophy?, Philosophy of Religion, Theories of knowledge, Philosophy of Mind, Free Will and Determinism, Ethics, and Political and Social Philosophy. Longer readings are carefully edited to preserve the central, self-contained argument so students focus on the core reasoning and conclusions. A wide selection of new readings at an attractive price makes this anthology the most versatile and affordable introduction to philosophy text on the market.

Table of Contents

New Reading in this Edition

Preface

What Is Philosophy?

Plato Euthyphro (complete) Translated

Bertrand Russell The Value of Philosophy (complete)

Philosophy of Religion A. THE EXISTENCE OF GOD

Anselm Proslogion and Exchange with Gaunilo (selection) Translated

Thomas Aquinas Treatise on God (selection) Translated

William Paley Natural Theology (selection)

David Hume Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (selection)

Richard Dawkins The Blind Watchmaker (selection)

The Problem Of Evil

Augustine On Free Choice of the Will Translated

Evil and Omnipotence (complete)

The Problem of Evil (selection)

Faith And Reason

Blaise Pascal Pensées (selection) Translated

The Will to Believe (selection)

Theories of Knowledge

Plato Republic (selection) Translated

René Descartes Meditations on First Philosophy (selection) Translated

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (selection)

Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous (selection)

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (selection)

Immanuel Kant Critique of Pure Reason (selection) Translated

Love and Knowledge: Emotion in Feminist Epistemology (selection)

Philosophy of Mind

The Mind-Body Problem

René Descartes Meditations on First Philosophy (selection) Translated

The Nature of Mind (complete)

CONSCIOUSNESS

Thomas Nagel, What Is It Like to Be a Bat? (complete)

Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness (selection)

Personal Identity

The Middle-Length Discourses of the Buddha (selection)

A Treatise of Human Nature (selection)

The Origins of Selves (complete)

Free Will and Determinism

Hard Determinism

Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d’Holbach Of the System of Man’s Free Agency (selection) Translated

The Range of Human Freedom (selection)

Libertarianism

The Dilemma of Determinism (selection)

Freedom and Determinism (selection)

Soft Determinism

The Problem of Morals (selection)

Firming Up Soft Determinism (complete)

Classical Ethical Theories

Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics (selection) Translated

Thomas Aquinas Treatise on Law (selection) Translated

Immanuel Kant Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (selection) Translated

John Stuart Mill Utilitarianism (selection)

Critiques Of Classical Theories

Søren Kierkegaard Is There a Teleological Suspension of the Ethical? (complete) Translated

Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil (selection) Translated

Sartre Existentialism Is a Humanism (selection)

The Challenge of Cultural Relativism (selection)

Just Caring (selection)

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