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9780495007104

Voices of Wisdom A Multicultural Philosophy Reader

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  • Edition: 6th
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-02-21
  • Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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First published in 1992 this anthology quickly became the standard for multicultural introductions to philosophy. Composed of a group of culturally diverse readings addressing a selection of seminal philosophical questions in ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics, VOICES OF WISDOM introduces students to the traditional terrain of philosophy as developed in the European tradition, yet in a manner that embraces significant philosophical insights borne out of different cultural legacies.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
PART 1 INTRODUCTION
1(26)
What Is Philosophy?
2(25)
A Definition of Philosophy
2(5)
What Is Rationality?
7(5)
Does Philosophy Bake Bread?
12(5)
On the Value of Philosophy
14(3)
Bertrand Russell
Who Are the Philosophers?
17(8)
Socrates Cafe
18(7)
Christopher Phillips
Reading Philosophy
25(2)
PART 2 ETHICS
27(222)
How Should One Live?
28(53)
Introduction
28(2)
The Buddha and the Middle Way
30(6)
The Buddha: The Four Noble Truths
31(2)
The Fourth Noble Truth
33(3)
Walpola Rahula
Confucius and the Life of Virtue
36(8)
Confucius and Moral Character
38(6)
D. C. Lau
Socrates on Living the Examined Life
44(15)
The Apology
46(13)
Plato
Aristotle on Happiness and the Life of Moderation
59(9)
Nichomachean Ethics
60(8)
Aristotle
The Song of God
68(7)
Bhagavad-Gita
70(5)
The Virtue of Selfishness
75(6)
The Ethics of Emergencies
77(4)
Ayn Rand
How Can I Know What Is Right?
81(46)
Introduction
81(1)
Kant and the Categorical Imperative
82(6)
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
83(5)
Immanuel Kant
Utilitarianism
88(8)
What Utilitarianism Is
90(6)
John Stuart Mill
Revaluation of Values
96(11)
Beyond Good and Evil
99(4)
Friedrich Nietzsche
On the Genealogy of Morality
103(4)
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Ethic of Care
107(12)
Caring
109(10)
Nel Noddings
Moral Relativism
119(8)
Relativism
120(7)
David Wong
What Makes a Society Just?
127(63)
Introduction
127(2)
God and Justice
129(9)
Islam and Democracy
130(8)
Khaled Abou El Fadl
Capitalism and Exploitation
138(10)
Manifesto of the Communist Party
140(8)
Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels
The Original Position
148(12)
A Theory of Justice
150(10)
John Rawls
Our Obligation to the State
160(8)
Crito
162(6)
Plato
Civil Disobedience
168(11)
Letter from Birmingham Jail
170(9)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sovereignty and Justice: An Indigenist's Viewpoint
179(11)
Perversions of Justice
180(10)
Ward Churchill
Is Justice for All Possible?
190(59)
Introduction
190(1)
Universal Human Rights
191(6)
Human Rights in the ``Age of Discovery''
192(2)
Rene Trujillo
United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights
194(3)
Sexism, Racism, and Homophobia
197(15)
Ain't I a Woman
199(4)
bell hooks
Race Matters
203(4)
Cornel West
Homophobia as a Weapon of Sexism
207(5)
Suzanne Pharr
Globalization and Justice
212(7)
One World: The Ethics of Globalization
213(6)
Peter Singer
Terrorism and Morality
219(10)
Bat-Ami Bar On: Why Terrorism Is Morally Problematic
220(9)
Justice and the Land
229(12)
The Land Ethic
231(10)
Aldo Leopold
Animal Rights
241(8)
Tom Regan: The Case for Animal Rights
242(7)
PART 3 EPISTEMOLOGY
249(98)
Is Knowledge Possible?
250(51)
Introduction
250(3)
Sufi Mysticism
253(8)
Deliverance from Error
254(7)
Al-Ghazali
Is Certainty Possible?
261(8)
Meditations I and II
263(6)
Rene Descartes
Empiricism and Limited Skepticism
269(8)
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
271(6)
David Hume
Should We Believe Beyond the Evidence?
277(8)
The Ethics of Belief
279(1)
William K. Clifford
The Will to Believe
280(5)
William James
Classical Indian Epistemology
285(6)
Knowledge and Reality
286(5)
John M. Koller
Feminist Epistemology: A Non-Western Perspective
291(10)
The Project of Feminist Epistemology
292(9)
Uma Narayan
Does Science Tell Us the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth?
301(46)
Introduction
301(1)
How Do We Come to Belief?
302(8)
The Fixation of Belief
304(6)
Charles Sanders Peirce
The Growth of Scientific Knowledge
310(7)
Conjectures and Refutations
311(6)
Karl Popper
Scientific Revolutions
317(13)
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
319(11)
Thomas S. Kuhn
Science and Traditional Thought
330(9)
Old Gods, New Worlds
332(7)
Kwame Anthony Appiah
The Will to Truth
339(8)
The Discourse on Language
341(3)
Michel Foucault
Truth and Power
344(3)
Michel Foucault
PART 4 METAPHYSICS
347(194)
What Is Really Real?
348(47)
Introduction
348(2)
The Dao
350(9)
Dao De Jing
353(6)
Laozi
Platonic Dualism
359(10)
The Republic
362(7)
Plato
Nondualism
369(8)
The Crest-Jewel of Discrimination
370(7)
Shankara
Subjective Idealism
377(7)
The Principles of Human Knowledge
380(4)
George Berkeley
Pre-Columbian Cosmologies
384(6)
Pre-Columbian Philosophical Perspectives
385(5)
Jorge Valadez
So What Is Real?
390(5)
The Circular Ruins
391(4)
Jorge Luis Borges
Are We Free or Determined?
395(38)
Introduction
395(1)
Would You Want One of These?
396(5)
The Case of Dr. Svengali
398(3)
Jonathan Harrison
We Are Determined
401(5)
Not Guilty
402(4)
Robert Blatchford
We Are Free
406(8)
Existentialism
407(7)
Jean-Paul Sartre
Karma and Freedom
414(5)
Karma and Freedom
416(3)
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
We Are Both Free and Determined
419(14)
Chanelle, Sabrina, and the Oboe
421(12)
Bruce N. Waller
What Am I?
433(33)
Introduction
433(2)
You Are Your Mind
435(4)
Mediation VI
436(3)
Rene Descartes
You Are an Embodied Self
439(9)
Body, Mind, and Gender
440(8)
Eve Browning Cole
You Are a Computing Machine
448(7)
Computing the Mind
449(6)
Bruce H. Hinrichs
You Are Not a Machine
455(8)
Can Computers Think?
456(7)
John Searle
You Are Meat
463(3)
They're Made Out of Meat
464(2)
Terry Bisson
Who Am I?
466(35)
Introduction
466(1)
There Is No Self
467(5)
The Buddha: False Doctrines about the Soul
469(1)
The Buddha: The Simile of the Chariot
470(2)
Down with the Ego
472(6)
Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons
473(5)
Derek Parfit
Where Am I?
478(10)
Brainstorms
480(8)
Daniel Dennett
Social Identity
488(8)
How to Tame a Wild Tongue
489(7)
Gloria Anzaldua
Gender Identity
496(5)
Crossing
497(4)
Deirdre (Donald) N. McCloskey
Is There a God?
501(40)
Introduction
501(1)
Arguments for God's Existence
502(6)
The Five Ways
504(2)
St. Thomas Aquinas
The Kalam Argument from Islam
506(1)
William Craig
Problems with the Cosmological Argument
507(1)
Gunapala Dharmasiri
Creationism vs. Evolution
508(12)
The Blind Watchmaker
511(9)
Richard Dawkins
Why Do Babies Suffer?
520(5)
God and the Problem of Evil
521(4)
B. C. Johnson
The Gender of God
525(7)
Beyond God the Father
527(5)
Mary Daly
Are All Religions True?
532(9)
The Dalai Lama: The Role of Religion in Modern Society
534(7)
Appendix I Glossary 541(8)
Appendix II Pronunciation Guides 549

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