Philosophy : The Power of Ideas

by Moore, Brooke Noel; Bruder, Kenneth

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9780767420112

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8/6/2001

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Summary

One of the most widely adopted texts in the field, Philosophy: The Power of Ideas offers a topical introduction to philosophy within an overarching historical framework. The goal of the authors is to make philosophy understandable while not oversimplifying the material, showing that philosophy contains powerful ideas that affect the lives of real people.

Preface

vii

Powerful Ideas

(14)

What Is Philosophy?

(3)

Misconceptions about Philosophy

(2)

The Tools of Philosophy: Argument and Logic

(2)

The Divisions of Philosophy

(1)

The Benefits of Philosophy

(2)

Checklist

(1)

Questions for Discussion and Review

(1)

Suggested Further Readings

(2)

Part One METAPHYSICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY: EXISTENCE AND KNOWLEDGE

(194)

The Pre-Socratics

(14)

The Milesians

(2)

Pythagoras

(1)

Heraclitus and Parmenides

(3)

Empedocles and Anaxagoras

(2)

The Atomists

(2)

Checklist

(1)

Questions for Discussion and Review

(1)

Suggested Further Readings

(1)

Socrates, Plato

(25)

Socrates

(2)

Plato

(21)

Plato's Metaphysics: The Theory of Forms

(3)

Plato's Theory of Knowledge

(3)

Plato's Theory of Love and Becoming

(2)

Republic

(8)

Plato

Meno

(5)

Plato

Checklist

(1)

Questions for Discussion and Review

(1)

Suggested Further Readings

(2)

Aristotle

(11)

What Is It to Be?

(2)

Actuality and Possibility

(1)

Essence and Existence

(1)

Ten Basic Categories

(1)

The Three Souls

(1)

Aristotle and the Theory of Forms

(1)

Aristotle's Theory of Knowledge

(1)

Logic

(3)

Metaphysics

(3)

Aristotle

Checklist

(1)

Questions for Discussion and Review

(1)

Suggested Further Readings

(1)

Philosophers of the Hellenistic and Christian Eras

(22)

Metaphysics in the Roman Empire

(9)

Plotinus

(1)

The Rise of Christianity

(1)

St. Augustine

(2)

Augustine and Skepticism

(3)

Hypatia

(2)

The Middle Ages and Aquinas

(10)

Confessions

(5)

St. Augustine

Checklist

(1)

Questions for Discussion and Review

(1)

Suggested Further Readings

(2)

The Rise of Modern Metaphysics and Epistemology

(32)

Descartes and Dualism

(7)

Skepticism As the Key to Certainty

(1)

The ``Clear and Distinct'' Litmus Test

(4)

Hobbes and Materialism

(2)

Perception

(1)

Difficulties in Hobbes's Theory

(1)

The Alternative Views of Conway, Spinoza, and Leibniz

100

(5)

The Metaphysics of Anne Conway

100

(2)

Spinoza

102

(2)

Leibniz

104

(1)

The Idealism of Locke and Berkeley

105

(12)

John Locke and Representative Realism

106

(1)

George Berkeley and Idealism

107

(3)

Material Things As Clusters of Ideas

110

(1)

Berkeley and Atheism

111

(1)

Meditations on First Philosophy

112

(2)

Rene Descartes

Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

114

(3)

George Berkeley

Checklist

117

(1)

Questions for Discussion and Review

117

(1)

Suggested Further Readings

118

(2)

The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

120

(27)

David Hume

121

(5)

The Quarter Experiment

121

(2)

Hume on the Self

123

(1)

Hume on Cause and Effect

124

(2)

Immanuel Kant

126

(4)

The Ordering Principles of the Mind

126

(3)

Things-in-Themselves

129

(1)

The Nineteenth Century

130

(14)

Main Themes of Hegel

130

(3)

Arthur Schopenhauer

133

(1)

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

134

(3)

David Hume

Critique of Pure Reason

137

(1)

Immanuel Kant

The Philosophy of History

138

(1)

George Hegel

The World As Will and Representation

139

(5)

Arthur Schopenhauer

Checklist

144

(1)

Question for Discussion and Review

145

(1)

Suggested Further Readings

145

(2)

The Continental Tradition

147

(26)

Existentialism

148

(4)

Two Existentialists

152

(8)

Albert Camus

154

(3)

Jean-Paul Sartre

157

(2)

Sartre and Kant on Ethics

159

(1)

You Are What You Do

160

(1)

Phenomenology

160

(10)

Edmund Husserl

160

(2)

Martin Heidegger

162

(4)

Existentialism and Humanism

166

(3)

Jean-Paul Sartre

The Myth of Sisyphus

169

(1)

Albert Camus

Checklist

170

(1)

Questions for Discussion and Review

170

(1)

Suggested Further Readings

171

(2)

The Pragmatic and Analytic Traditions

173

(36)

Pragmatism

174

(3)

Analytic Philosophy

177

(16)

What Analysis Is

177

(1)

A Brief Overview of Analytic Philosophy

177

(4)

Language and Science

181

(3)

Experience, Language, and the World

184

(5)

Antirepresentationalism

189

(2)

Wittgenstein's Turnaround

191

(2)

The Philosophy of Mind

193

(12)

Dualism

193

(1)

Behaviorism

194

(2)

Identity Theory

196

(1)

Functionalism

197

(2)

The Elimination of Metaphysics

199

(3)

A. J. Ayer

Sensations and Brain Processes

202

(2)

J. J. C. Smart

Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth

204

(1)

Richard Rorty

Checklist

205

(1)

Questions for Discussion and Review

206

(1)

Suggested Further Readings

206

(3)

Part Two MORAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

209

(130)

Moral Philosophy

210

(55)

Skepticism, Relativism, and Subjectivism

211

(1)

Egoism

212

(1)

Hedonism

213

(1)

The Five Main Ethical Frameworks

214

(1)

The Early Greeks

214

(8)

Plato

215

(3)

A Complete Ethical Theory

218

(1)

Aesara, the Lucanian

219

(1)

Aristotle

220

(2)

Epicureanism and Stoicism

222

(4)

Epicureanism

223

(1)

The Stoics

224

(2)

Christianizing Ethics

226

(7)

St. Augustine

226

(1)

St. Hildegard of Bingen

227

(2)

Heloise and Abelard

229

(3)

St. Thomas Aquinas

232

(1)

Hobbes and Hume

233

(4)

Hobbes

233

(1)

Hume

234

(1)

Value Judgments Are Based on Emotion, Not Reason

235

(1)

Benevolence

236

(1)

Can There Be Ethics after Hume?

237

(1)

Kant

237

(3)

The Supreme Principle of Morality

238

(1)

Why You Should Do What, You Should Do

239

(1)

The Utilitarians

240

(4)

Bentham

240

(2)

Mill

242

(2)

Friedrich Nietzsche

244

(16)

Gorgias

245

(3)

Plato

Epicurus to Menoeceus

248

(2)

Epicurus

The Encheiridion

250

(2)

Epictetus

Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals

252

(2)

Immanuel Kant

Utilitarianism

254

(3)

John Stuart Mill

Beyond Good and Evil

257

(3)

Friedrich Nietzsche

Checklist

260

(2)

Questions for Discussion and Review

262

(1)

Suggested Further Readings

263

(2)

Political Philosophy

265

(43)

Plato and Aristotle

266

(3)

Plato

266

(2)

Aristotle

268

(1)

Natural Law Theory and Contractarian Theory

269

(6)

Augustine and Aquinas

269

(1)

Hobbes

270

(5)

Two Other Contractarian Theorists

275

(8)

John Locke

275

(4)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

279

(4)

American Constitutional Theory

283

(2)

Natural Law and Rights in the Declaration of Independence

283

(1)

Natural Law and Rights in the U.S. Constitution

284

(1)

The Right to Privacy

285

(1)

Classic Liberalism and Marxism

285

(19)

Adam Smith

286

(1)

Utilitarianism and Natural Rights

286

(1)

Harriet Taylor

286

(1)

John Stuart Mill

287

(2)

Marxism

289

(5)

Marxism and Communism

294

(1)

Anarchism

295

(1)

Leviathan

296

(4)

Thomas Hobbes

On Liberty

300

(2)

John Stuart Mill

Communist Manifesto

302

(2)

Karl Marx

Friedrich Engels

Checklist

304

(1)

Questions for Discussion and Review

305

(1)

Suggested Further Readings

306

(2)

Recent Moral and Political Philosophy

308

(31)

G. E. Moore

308

(2)

Normative Ethics and Metaethics

310

(1)

W. D. Ross

311

(1)

Emotivism and Beyond

312

(3)

John Rawls, a Contemporary Liberal

315

(4)

The Fundamental Requirements of the Just Society

316

(1)

The Veil of Ignorance and the Original Position

316

(1)

The Two Principles of Social Justice

317

(1)

The Rights of Individuals

317

(1)

Why Should I Accept Rawl's Provisions?

318

(1)

Robert Nozick's Libertarianism

319

(3)

A Minimal State Is Justified

320

(1)

Only the ``Night-Watchman'' State Does Not Violate Rights

320

(2)

The Rights of Individuals

322

(1)

Communitarian Responses to Rawls

322

(4)

Alasdair MacIntyre and Virtue Ethics

323

(3)

Herbert Marcuse, a Contemporary Marxist

326

(2)

``Isms''

328

(8)

Killing and Starving to Death

330

(3)

James Rachels

A Theory of Justice

333

(1)

John Rawls

Anarchy, State, and Utopia

334

(2)

Robert Nozick

Checklist

336

(1)

Questions for Discussion and Review

336

(1)

Suggested Further Readings

337

(2)

Part Three PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION: REASON AND FAITH

339

(48)

Philosophy and Belief in God

340

(47)

Two Christian Greats

341

(6)

Anselm

341

(3)

Aquinas

344

(3)

Mysticism

347

(3)

Seventeenth-Century Perspectives

350

(5)

Descartes

350

(2)

Leibniz

352

(3)

Eighteenth-Century Perspectives

355

(6)

Hume

355

(4)

Kant

359

(2)

Nineteenth-Century Perspectives

361

(9)

Newman

361

(1)

Kierkegaard

362

(1)

Nietzsche

363

(2)

James

365

(5)

Twentieth-Century Perspectives

370

(13)

God and Logical Positivism

370

(2)

Mary Daly: The Unfolding of God

372

(3)

Who Needs Reasons for Believing in God?

375

(1)

Proslogion

376

(1)

St. Anselm

Summa Theologica

377

(1)

St. Thomas Aquinas

The Gay Science

378

(1)

Friedrich Nietzsche

Theology and Falsification

379

(1)

Antony Flew

After the Death of God the Father

380

(3)

Mary Daly

Checklist

383

(1)

Questions for Discussion and Review

384

(1)

Suggested Further Readings

385

(2)

Part Four OTHER VOICES

387

(158)

Feminist Philosophy

388

(49)

The First Wave

388

(3)

The Second Wave

391

(42)

Androgyny As an Alternative

396

(2)

Problems with Androgyny As an Ideal

398

(2)

Feminist Moral Theory

400

(3)

Justice, Gender, and the Family: Susan Moller Okin

403

(2)

Sexism and Language

405

(2)

Division of Labor Analysis

407

(1)

Pornography

407

(1)

The Importance of Recognizing Diversity

408

(1)

Feminist Epistemology

409

(2)

Ecofeminism

411

(3)

A Vindication of the Rights of Women

414

(1)

Mary Wollstonecraft

The Second Sex

415

(3)

Simone de Beauvoir

Sexism: The Male Monopoly on History and Thought

418

(4)

Marielouise Janssen-Jurreit

Should the History and Philosophy of Science Be X-Rated?

422

(2)

Sandra Harding

Justice, Gender, and the Family

424

(6)

Susan Moller Okin

The Power and the Promise of Ecological Feminism

430

(3)

Karen J. Warren

Checklist

433

(1)

Questions for Discussion and Review

434

(1)

Suggested Further Readings

435

(2)

An Era of Suspicion

437

(21)

Jurgen Habermas

438

(3)

Michel Foucault

441

(2)

Structuralism versus Deconstruction

443

(5)

Jacques Derrida

444

(4)

Richard Rorty

448

(8)

The History of Sexuality

450

(1)

Michel Foucault

Madness and Civilization

451

(1)

Michel Foucault

Toward a Rational Society

452

(3)

Jurgen Habermas

Philosophy and Social Hope

455

(1)

Richard Rorty

Checklist

456

(1)

Questions for Discussion and Review

456

(1)

Suggested Further Readings

456

(2)

Eastern Influences

458

(49)

Hinduism

459

(3)

Buddhism

462

(5)

Buddha

462

(5)

Taoism

467

(8)

Lao Tzu

467

(5)

Chuang Tzu

472

(3)

Confucianism

475

(9)

Confucius

475

(4)

Mencius

479

(4)

Hsun Tzu

483

(1)

Zen Buddhism in China and Japan

484

(9)

Hui Neng

484

(3)

Buddhism in Japan

487

(1)

Murasaki Shikibu

488

(3)

Dogen Kigen

491

(2)

The Philosophy of the Samurai (c. 1100-1900)

493

(11)

The Influence of Confucius

495

(2)

The Influence of Zen Buddhism

497

(2)

Analects

499

(2)

Confucius

The Eightfold Noble Path

501

(3)

Buddha

Checklist

504

(1)

Questions for Discussion and Review

505

(1)

Suggested Further Readings

505

(2)

Postcolonial Thought

507

(38)

Historical Background

509

(2)

Africa

511

(5)

Oral and Traditional Philosophy

513

(3)

The Americas

516

(8)

African American Thought

519

(3)

Latin American Thought

522

(2)

South Asia

524

(17)

Satyagraha

525

(2)

Metaphysics

527

(1)

On African Socialism

528

(2)

Leopold Sedar Senghor

The Sword That Heals

530

(1)

Martin Luther King Jr.

Existentialism and the Crisis of Philosophy

531

(2)

Carlos Astrada

Man without Theory

533

(3)

Francisco Miro Quesada

Feminism on the Border: From Gender Politics to Geopolitics

536

(2)

Sonia Saldivar-Hull

Satyagraha

538

(2)

Mohandas K. Gandhi

Towards Universal Man

540

(1)

Rabindranath Tagore

Checklist

541

(1)

Questions for Discussion and Review

542

(1)

Suggested Further Readings

543

(2)

Photo Credits

545

(2)

Glossary/Index

547

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