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9780495007067

Traversing Philosophical Boundaries

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    9780495007067

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    0495007064

  • Edition: 3rd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-04-11
  • Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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Philosophy made easy! TRAVERSING PHILOSOPHICAL BOUNDARIES walks you through the six philosophical concerns in language you can understand. Plus, it has study tools and review sections that let you make sure you're getting what you need to know. This multicultural philosophical reader offers essential readings from many cultural perspectives not typically included in introductory philosophy classes. Asian, African, African-American, Latin American, and Feminist traditions are broadly represented and fully integrated into the exploration of these fundamental matters.

Table of Contents

Preface xi
Introduction xv
Self, Mind, and Body
1(136)
Do We Have an Essential Self or Soul?
6(22)
Dialogue with Death
6(4)
On Personal Identity
10(6)
John Locke
The Questions of King Milinda on the Self
16(4)
There Is No Personal Identity
20(4)
David Hume
A Dialogue on Immortality
24(4)
Arthur Schopenhauer
To What Extent Do Our Bodies Determine Who We Are?
28(49)
The Nature of the Soul and Its Relation to the Body
28(12)
Plato
Of the Real Distinction Between Mind and Body
40(6)
Rene Descartes
Woman as Body: Ancient and Contemporary Views
46(11)
Elizabeth V. Spelman
Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons
57(6)
Derek Parfit
Disciplining the Body
63(5)
Michel Foucault
Where Am I?
68(9)
Daniel C. Dennett
What Else Determines Who I Am?
77(60)
Zarathustra's Prologue and Three Speeches
77(12)
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Question of Lay Analysis
89(13)
Sigmund Freud
The Social Self
102(5)
George Herbert Mead
The Illusion of Human Freedom
107(6)
B. F. Skinner
Existentialism Is a Humanism
113(8)
Jean-Paul Sartre
Woman as the Second Sex
121(8)
Simone De Beauvoir
An Autobiographical View of Mixed Race and Deracination
129(8)
Naomi Zack
Creation and Reality
137(86)
How Did We Get Here?
141(36)
An African Creation Story
141(2)
Creation of the World from the Self
143(2)
The Creation and the Fall
145(4)
How the World Was Made and the Origin of Disease and Medicine
149(5)
The Origin and Fate of the Universe
154(5)
Stephen W. Hawking
The Origin of the Species
159(8)
Charles Darwin
Yali's Question
167(10)
Jared Diamond
What Is the Nature of Reality?
177(46)
The Myth of the Cave
177(3)
Plato
The Way of the Universe
180(4)
Lao-Tzu
The Nature of Reality
184(4)
Wang Chung
On the Nature of Things
188(6)
Lucretius
The Monadology
194(6)
Gottfried Wilhelm Liebniz
An Introduction to Metaphysics
200(7)
Henri Bergson
The True Features of Reality
207(4)
Kitaro Nishida
The Politics of Reality
211(12)
Marilyn Frye
Knowledge and Truth
223(103)
How Do We Know What We Know?
227(61)
Meditations on the Nature of Knowledge
227(9)
Rene Descartes
The Source of Our Knowledge
236(6)
John Locke
Principles of Human Knowledge
242(6)
George Berkeley
The Fixation of Belief
248(8)
Charles Sanders Peirce
Pragmatism's Conception of Truth
256(7)
William James
Methods and Modes of Knowing
263(4)
Jose Vasconcelos
Truth and Existence
267(7)
Karl Jaspers
Navajo Ways of Knowing
274(6)
Herbert John Benally
The Metaphysics of Oppression
280(8)
Jorge Valadez
Is Knowledge Really Attainable?
288(38)
A Dialogue on Dogmatism and Truth
288(3)
The Identity of Contraries
291(5)
Chuang-Tzu
Circles
296(6)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Doubts Concerning the Possibility of Knowledge
302(8)
David Hume
The Elimination of Metaphysics
310(8)
Alfred Jules Ayer
Situated Knowers
318(8)
Elizabeth Anderson
Ethics
326(94)
How Do We Determine What We Ought to Do?
331(36)
The Proper Function of Man and Its Relation to the Good Life
331(8)
Aristotle
On Human Goodness
339(4)
Mencius
The Good Will and Morality
343(6)
Immanuel Kant
The Principle of Utility
349(4)
Jeremy Bentham
The Sentiment of Solidarity as the Foundation of Ethics
353(3)
Enrique Jose Varona
Mysticism and Ethics in Hindu Thought
356(6)
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Compassion and the Reverence for Life
362(5)
Albert Schweitzer
What Are Some Reasons for Questioning Traditional Values?
367(53)
Relativism
367(7)
David B. Wong
Master Morality and Slave Morality
374(6)
Friedrich Neitzsche
Mitakuye Oyasin: We Are All Related
380(5)
Ed (Eagle Man) Mcgaa
The Land Ethic
385(9)
Aldo Leopold
In a Different Voice
394(5)
Carol Gilligan
Transvaluation of Values: The End of Phallic Morality
399(12)
Mary Daly
What Means This Freedom?
411(9)
John Hospers
Politics
420(139)
What Is the Basis of Our Obligations to Society?
425(74)
Crito
425(8)
Plato
The Social Contract
433(8)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Declaration of Independence
441(5)
Thomas Jefferson
The Racial Contract
446(9)
Charles Mills
The Communist Manifesto
455(14)
Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels
We Are Practical Revolutionaries
469(5)
Ernesto Che Guevara
In Defense of Democracy
474(6)
John Dewey
The Political Theory of Islam
480(10)
Abul'l A'la Maududi
Who Is Your Mother? Red Roots of White Feminism
490(9)
Paula Gunn Allen
Where Do Our Obligations to Society End?
499(60)
On Liberty
499(9)
John Stuart Mill
Principles of Nonviolence
508(4)
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Letter from Birmingham Jail
512(10)
Martin Luther King Jr.
Power and Racism
522(6)
Stokely Carmichael
Feminism: A Transformational Politic
528(7)
Bell Hooks
Socialist Feminism: Our Bridge to Freedom
535(6)
Nellie Wong
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
541(9)
Henry David Thoreau
Anarchism: What It Really Stands For
550(9)
Emma Goldman
Religion
559(110)
What Is the Nature of Religious Belief?
565(42)
Confessions on the Nature of God
565(8)
Aurelius Augustinus
The Powers of the Bison and the Elk
573(4)
Black Elk
Whether God Exists
577(4)
Thomas Aquinas
A Panegyric upon Abraham
581(5)
Søren Kierkegaard
I and Thou
586(5)
Martin Buber
Involvement in the Liberation Process
591(9)
Gustavo Guttierrez
Witchcraft and Women's Culture
600(7)
Starhawk
Is Religious Belief Beneficial or Harmful?
607(62)
The Will to Believe
607(7)
William James
Myth and Society
614(7)
Joseph Campbell
Why Women Need the Goddess
621(9)
Carol P. Christ
Religion and Science
630(8)
Alfred North Whitehead
How Not to Compare African Thought with Western Thought
638(9)
Kwasi Wiredu
Theology and Falsification
647(3)
Antony Flew
Why I Am a Pagan
650(6)
Lin Yutang
Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization?
656(13)
Bertrand Russell
Glossary 669

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