Readings from the Roots of Wisdom A Multicultural Reader

by Mitchell, Helen Buss

• ISBN13: 9780534561116
• ISBN10: 053456111X
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-05
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

The anthology is a collection of readings from a wide range of philosophical and cultural perspectives. Interesting and reader-friendly selections were purposely selected so as to be accessible to a wide range of readers. While designed to accompany Mitchell's ROOTS OF WISDOM, it can also be used with any other introductory text.

Table of Contents

Preface

Student Introduction

PART I: METAPHYSICS

1. Why Philosophy? Plato, Book VIII of the Republic

Aristophanes, Clouds

Innocent Onyewuenyi, Is There an African Philosophy? Rigoberta Menchú, I Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala

The Tao Te Ching, Chapters 1, 17, 22, 34, 48, and 79. 2

Reality and Being

Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

Edwin Abbot, Flatland

Lancinay Keita, The African Philosophical Tradition

Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Buddhist Scriptures, Lives of the Buddha

3. Human Nature

Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism as a Humanism

The Bible, Chapters 1 and 2 of Genesis

Elizabeth V

Spelman, Aristotle and the Politicization of the Soul

Ifeanyi A

Menkiti, Person and Community in Traditional African Thought

James P

Hogan, Code of the Life Maker

4. Philosophy and God

Augustine of Hippo, The City of God

Benjamin Ewuku Oguah, African and Western Philosophy: A Comparative Study

al-Ghazali, The Incoherence of the Philosophers

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland

Herman Hesse, Siddhartha

PART II: EPISTEMOLOGY

5. Knowledge and the Mind

Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method

Alison M

Jaggar, Love and Knowledge: Emotion in Feminist Epistemology

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, La Respuesta (The Response)

Moses Maimonides, The Guide of the Perplexed

Shunryu Suzuki, Beyond Consciousness

6. The Search for Truth

David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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Scott Momaday, The Man Made of Words

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Mwanahewa, African Logical Heritage and Contemporary Life

Hildegard of Bingen, Letters to Bernard of Clairvaux and the Mainz Prelates

7. Aesthetic Experience

Plato, Book X of The Republic

Aristotle, Poetics [6,8,9,14]

Eugen Herrigel, Zen and the Art of Archery

Chinua Achebe, Arrow of God

Susanne K

Langer, The Cultural Importance of Art

PART III: AXIOLOGY

8. Political Philosophy

John Locke, Treatise of Civil Government

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls

Bart Kosko, The Fuzzy Social Contract

Malcolm X, The Speeches of Malcolm X at Harvard

Nicholas D

Kristof, The End of the Golden Road

9. Social Philosophy

John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism

Ignacio Ellacuría, S

Human Rights in a Divided Society

Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women

Audre Lorde, Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining the Difference

Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

10. Ethics

Immanual Kant, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Ethics

Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera

Rita Manning, Speaking from the Heart

Kwasi Wiredu, The Moral Foundations of an African Culture

Benjamin Hoff, The Te of Piglet