Traversing Philosophical Boundaries

by Hallman, Max

• ISBN13: 9781111298180
• ISBN10: 1111298181
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780495007067
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-12
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Summary

TRAVERSING PHILOSOPHICAL BOUNDARIES is the most comprehensive multicultural text/reader for introductory philosophy on the market today. Addressing six primary philosophical concerns?the self, reality, epistemology, ethics, politics, and religion?this book contains not only many readings from the Western canon, but also 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. The text also includes several readings from the sciences, with selections from Charles Darwin, Stephen Hawking, and Jared Diamond.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Self, Mind, and Body

Do We Have an Essential Self or Soul?

Dialogue with Death, From the Upanishads

On Personal Identity

The Questions of King Milinda on the Self, From the Buddhist Scriptures

There Is No Personal Identity

A Dialogue on Immortality

To What Extent Do Our Bodies Determine Who We Are? The Nature of the Soul and Its Relation to the Body, Plato

Of the Real Distinction Between Mind and Body

Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons

Disciplining the Body

Females as Docile Bodies

Where Am I?

What Else Determines Who I Am? ZarathustraÆs Prologue and Three Speeches

The Question of Lay Analysis

The Social Self

The Illusion of Human Freedom

Existentialism Is a Humanism

Woman as the Second Sex

An Autobiographical View of Mixed Race and Deracination

Creation and Reality

How Did We Get Here? An African Creation Story, From the Sacred Storytelling of the Boshongo People

Creation of the World from the Self, From the Upanishads

The Creation and the Fall, From the Bible

How the World Was Made and the Origin of Disease and Medicine, From the Sacred Storytelling of the Cherokee

Origin and Fate of the Universe

The Origin of the Species

YaliÆs Question

What Is the Nature of Reality? The Myth of the Cave

Plato

The Way of the Universe

The Nature of Reality

On the Nature of Things, Lucretius

The Monadology

An Introduction to Metaphysics

The True Features of Reality

The Politics of Reality

Knowledge and Truth

How Do We Know What We Know? Meditations on the Nature of Knowledge

The Source of Our Knowledge

Principles of Human Knowledge

The Fixation of Belief

PragmatismÆs Conception of Truth

Methods and Modes of Knowing

Truth and Existence

Navajo Ways of Knowing

The Metaphysics of Oppression

Is Knowledge Really Attainable? A Dialogue on Dogmatism and Truth

From the Buddhist Scriptures

The Identity of Contraries

Circles

Doubts Concerning the Possibility of Knowledge

The Elimination of Metaphysics

Situated Knowers

Ethics

How Do We Determine What We Ought to Do?

The Proper Function of Man and Its Relation to the Good Life, Aristotle

On Human Goodness, Mencius

The Good Will and Morality

The Principle of Utility

The Sentiment of Solidarity as the Foundation of Ethics

Mysticism and Ethics in Hindu Thought

Compassion and the Reverence for Life

What Are Some Reasons for Questioning Traditional Values? Relativism

Master Morality and Slave Morality

Mitakuye Oyasin: We Are All Related

The Earth Charter, The Earth Charter Commission

Transvaluation of Values: The End of Phallic Morality

The Ethics of Care

What Means This Freedom

Politics

What Is the Basis of Our Obligations to Society? Crito, Plato, The Social Contract

The Declaration of Independence

The Racial Contract

The Communist Manifesto

Socialist Feminism: Our Bridge to Freedom

In Defense of Democracy

The Political Theory of Islam

Who Is Your Mother? Red Roots of White Feminism

Where Do Our Obligations to Society End? On Liberty

On Revolt

Principles of Nonviolence

Letter from Birmingham Jail

Power and Racism

Feminism: A Transformational Politic

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

Anarchism: What It Really Stands For

Religion

What Is the Basis of Religious Belief? Confessions on the Nature of God

The Powers of the Bison and the Elk

Proof That God Exists

The Faith of Abraham

I and Thou

Involvement in the Liberation Process

Witchcraft and WomenÆs Culture, Starhawk

The Anthropological Essence of Religion

Is Religious Belief Beneficial or Harmful? The Will to Believe

Myth and Society

Why Women Need the Goddess

Why I Am a Pagan

Religion and Science

How Not to Compare African Thought with Western Thought

Theology and Falsification

Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization?

Glossary

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