Preface | |
Introduction | |
What Are We Doing in This Class? | |
Is Philosophy Possible? | |
The Origins of Philosophy | |
Contemporary Branches of Philosophy | |
The Philosophy of Socrates | |
Conclusion | |
Truth Is Beauty, Beauty Is Truth | |
Rationalist Epistemology | |
The Philosophy of Plato | |
Rene Descartes' Rationalism | |
What You See Is What You Get | |
Empiricist Epistemology | |
The Empiricism of John Locke | |
Hume's Radicalization of Berkeley's Empiricism | |
Logical Positivism: The Further Radicalization | |
of Empiricism | |
Kant's Compromise | |
Conclusion: Getting Up-to-Date | |
Who's on First, What's on Second? | |
Ontology | |
Dualism | |
Materialistic Monism | |
Pluralism | |
Conclusion | |
Mount Olympus, Mount Moriah, and Other Godly Places | |
Philosophy of Religion | |
Theism | |
Atheism | |
Volitional Justifications of Religious Belief | |
Religious Mysticism | |
Religious Existentialism | |
Conclusion | |
The Largest Airline in the Free World | |
Philosophy of Freedom | |
Determinism: Ancient Greek and Enlightenment Views | |
Hard Determinism: Modern Views | |
The Attack on Free Will | |
Soft Determinism (a.k.a. Compatibilism) | |
Indeterminism | |
Conclusion | |
Thou Shalt Become Perfected | |
Ethics | |
Ancient Greek Moral Philosophers | |
Egoism | |
Kantianism Today? | |
Conclusion | |
Different Strokes for Different Folks | |
Critiques of Traditional Ethical Theories | |
Existentialism | |
Hume and the Naturalistic Fallacy | |
Logical Positivism | |
Cultural Relativism | |
Ethics and Feminism | |
Ethics and Deep Ecology | |
Conclusion | |
Let Them Eat Cake | |
Political and Social Philosophy | |
Political Philosophy | |
Social Philosophy | |
Conclusion | |
But Is It Art? | |
Philosophy of Art | |
Analytic Philosophy of Art | |
Wittgenstein | |
Plato, Freud, and Art | |
Aristotle and Art | |
Marx and Art | |
Existentialism and Art | |
Conclusion | |
Notes | |
Glossary | |
Credits | |
Index | |
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