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Each chapter ends with a Summary and Conclusion | |
Chapter Review Questions | |
Key Terms | |
Bibliography, and Further Reading | |
Preface | |
History of Philosophy | |
Introduction: Philosophy | |
Socrates | |
Aristophanes, from The Clouds | |
Plato, from The Apology; from The Crito; from The Phaedo; from The Republic | |
What Is Philosophy? | |
Plato, from The Apology | |
Karl Jaspers, from "The 'Axial Period'" | |
Tao Te Ching | |
A Modern Approach to Philosophy | |
Rene Descartes, from Discourse on Method | |
A | |
Deductive Arguments | |
Inductive Arguments | |
Argument by Analogy | |
Necessary and Sufficient Conditions, "Logical Possibility," and Arguments by Counter-example | |
Reductio ad Absurdum | |
The Most Insidious Kinds of Fallacies | |
The World And Beyond | |
Reality | |
"The Way The World Really Is" | |
Aristotle, from Metaphysics | |
The First Greek Philosophers | |
The Ionian Naturalists | |
Monism, Materialism, and Immaterial "Stuff" | |
Heraclitus | |
Democritus, Atoms, and Pluralism | |
Animism | |
Pythagoras | |
The Appearance/Reality Distinction | |
Parmenides | |
Parmenides, from Fragments | |
The Sophists | |
Metaphysics | |
Ultimate Reality in the East: India, Persia, and China | |
Reality as Spirit: The Upanishads | |
From Upanishads | |
Reality, Good, and Evil: Zarathustra | |
From Zend-Avesta | |
Confucius | |
Confucius, from The Analects | |
Lao-zi, or the Poets of the Dao De Jing | |
Lao-zi, from Dao De Jing | |
Buddha | |
Buddha, from "Fire-Sermon" | |
Two Kinds of Metaphysics: Plato and Aristotle | |
Plato | |
Plato, from The Symposium; from The Republic; from The Meno | |
Aristotle | |
Aristotle, from Metaphysics; from Physics; from Metaphysics | |
Modern Metaphysics | |
Rene Descartes | |
Rene Descartes, On Substance; from "Meditation VI" | |
Benedictus de Spinoza | |
Benedictus de Spinoza, from Ethics | |
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz | |
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, from Monadology | |
From "The Fundamental Question of Metaphysics" | |
On the Plurality of Worlds | |
Religion | |
What is Religion? | |
From "Gods" | |
On the Design of the Universe | |
From "What Is Religion?" | |
B | |
The Traditional Conception of God | |
Proving God: The Ontological Argument | |
On the Ontological Argument | |
Rene Descartes, on the Ontological Argument | |
Immanuel Kant, Against the Ontological Argument | |
On the Ontological Argument | |
God as Creator: Intelligence and Design | |
Aquinas, on the Cosmological Argument | |
On the "Fifth Way" | |
On an Imperfect Universe | |
From The Mind of God | |
On the "Fine-Tuning" Argument | |
Religion and "Practical Reason" | |
On God and Morality | |
From "The Will to Believe" | |
The Problem of Evil | |
From Confessions | |
Hinduism, Bud | |
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