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Part 1: What is Philosophy?
Chapter 1: The Activity of Philosophy
Chapter 2: Philosophy’s History
Chapter 3: Philosophy and the Examined Life
Part 2: Thinking About Thinking (Logic)
Chapter 4: The Life of Reason
Chapter 5: Argument Forms
Chapter 6: Induction and the Philosophy of Science
Chapter 7: Strategies for Philosophical Arguments
Part 3: What is Real? (Metaphysics)
Chapter 8: Introduction to Metaphysics
Chapter 9: Dualism
Chapter 10: Materialism
Chapter 11: Idealism
Chapter 12: The Mind-Body Problem and Personal Identity
Chapter 13: Freedom and Determinism: The Metaphysics of Human Agency
Part 4: How Do We Know? (Epistemology)
Chapter 14: Introduction to Epistemology
Chapter 15: Rene Descartes: The Quest for Certainty
Chapter 16: David Hume: Trust Your Senses
Chapter 17: Immanuel Kant: A Compromise
Chapter 18: Knowledge and Human Practices
Part 5: What Ought We to Do? (Ethics)
Chapter 19: Introduction to Ethical Reasoning
Chapter 20: Moral Skepticism
Chapter 21: Morality and Metaphysics
Chapter 22: Endaemonism: The Morality of Self-Realization
Chapter 23: Utilitarianism: Morality Depends on the Consequences
Chapter 24: Deontology: Morality Depends on the Motives
Part 6: Philosophy of Religion
Chapter 25: Introduction to Philosophy of Religion
Chapter 26: Religion and Life’s Meaning
Chapter 27: A Priori</emphasis> Arguments for God’s Existence
Chapter 28: A Posteriori</emphasis> Arguments for God’s Existence: Aquinas’ Five Ways
Chapter 29: The Problem of Evil
Part 7: Philosophy of Art (Esthetics)
Chapter 30: Introduction to the Philosophy of Art
Chapter 31: The Value of Art
Chapter 32: Art as Ideal
Chapter 33: Esthetics and Ideology
Part 8: Social and Political Philosophy
Chapter 34: Introduction to Social and Political Philosophy
Chapter 35: The Liberal, Secular State
Chapter 36: The Individual and the State
Chapter 37: Human Rights
Chapter 38: Individual Happiness and Social Responsibility
Part 9: Eastern Thought
Chapter 39: Philosophy East and West
Chapter 40: Confucian Theories of Human Nature
Chapter 41: Hindu Debate on Monism
Chapter 42: Buddhist Theory of Emptiness
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