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• Chapter on the history of philosophy.

  • Gives students an introduction to the history of ideas.

• Article dealing with critical thinking.

  • Provides students with a discussion of a technique that is essential to understanding even elementary philosophical concepts.

• An appealing mix of classic and contemporary works–Includes many selections and authors rarely found in first-course volumes.

  • Introduces students to all major areas of philosophy and a full range of philosophical questions.

• Accessible writing style and narrative introductions to all readings.

  • Promotes a better understanding of the issues, concerns, and questions for each particular area of philosophy explored.

• A logical approach–Organizes readings within each section as a debate on one central issue or problem.

  • Helps students appreciate the argumentative style of philosophy.

• A section on logical and analytical techniques–Often omitted in first-year courses.

  • Presents students with discussions/readings on necessary and sufficient conditions, inductive arguments, causal reasoning, definition, analysis, and the difference between truth and validity.

• An entire section on Eastern thought–Features two classic Eastern texts: The Bhagavad Gita and the Tao te Ching .

  • Explains the need to view Oriental philosophies as not merely Eastern versions of Western ideas – to help break down a prejudice that all important thought is Western.

• Biographies and pictures of all major philosophers.

  • Stimulates interest in the issues by situating each philosopher's position within the context of her/his life.

• Questions for discussion–Within each chapter.

  • Encourages students to understand philosophy as a living discipline that draws from its past in order to deal with current issues.

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• COMMON PHILOSOPHICAL TERMS (ISBN: 0-13-189661-X).  Compiled by the editors at Prentice Hall, this glossary will assist students in their study and mastery of philosophy. It contains 431 of the most common terms students are likely to encounter in their readings of primary and secondary texts.

• PRIMARY SOURCE RESOURCE.  Penguin novels and our own Library of Liberal Arts titles are available to package with your text. Available paperbacks relevant to the study of Philosophy include titles by Aristotle, Nietzsche, and more. Click here for more details.

• ABC NEWS VIDEOS FOR PHILOSOPHY CD-ROM (ISBN: 0-13-154202-8) This CD-ROM provides video segments culled from ABC news broadcasts that show how philosophical issues connect to contemporary situations. This engaging resource includes segments on the same-sex marriage debate, decency on TV, and several additional issues.

Table of Contents

I. WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY?

 1. The Activity of Philosophy.

 2. Philosophy of Everyday Life.

READING: Stewart, Philosophy and Popular Culture.

 3. Philosophy's History.

 4. Philosophy and the Examined Life.

READING: Socrates, In Defense of Philosophy.

Recent Developments in Philosophy.

II. THINKING ABOUT THINKING (LOGIC).

 5. The Life of Reason.

 6. Argument Forms.

 7. Induction and the Philosophy of Science.

 8. Strategies for Philosophical Argument.

READING: Thomas A. Shipka, Are You a Critical Thinker?.

Recent Developments in Logic.

III. WHAT IS REAL. (METAPHYSICS).

 9. Introduction to Metaphysics.

10. Materialism.

READING: Epicurus, First Principle of Materialism.

11. Idealism.

READING: George Berkeley, Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous.

12. The Mind-Body Problem.

READING: Richard Taylor, Materialism and Personal Identity.

13. Metaphysics and Language.

READING: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations.

Recent Developments in Metaphysics.

IV. HOW DO WE KNOW? (EPISTEMOLOGY).

14. Introduction to Epistemology.

15. Appearance and Reality.

READING: Plato, The Visible and the Invisible.

16. The Quest for Certainty.

READING: René Descartes, Mediations.

17. Trust Your Senses.

READING: David Hume, Skeptical Doubts Concerning the Operations of the Understanding.

18. A Compromise.

READING: Immanuel Kant, Two Sources of Knowledge.

Recent Developments in Epistemology.

V. WHAT OUGHT WE TO DO? (ETHICS).

19. Introduction to Ethical Reasoning.

20. The Need for Morality.

READING: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan.

21. The Morality of Self-Realization.

READING: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics.

22. Morality Depends on the Consequences.

READING: John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism.

23. Morality Depends on Motives.

READING: Immanuel Kant, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals.

Recent Developments in Ethics.

VI. PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION.

24. Introduction to Philosophy and Religion.

25. Religion and Life's Meaning.

READING: Leo Tolstoy, A Confession.

26. Arguments for God's Existence: The Ontological Argument.

READING: St. Anselm, Proslogion.

27. Arguments for God's Existence: The Cosmological Arguments.

READINGS: St. Thomas Aquinas, The Five Ways. William Paley, Natural Theology.

28. The Problem of Evil.

READING: John Hick, The Vale of Soul-Making Theodicy.

Recent Developments in Religion.

VII. PHILOSOPHY OF ART (ESTHETICS).

29. Introduction to Philosophy of Art.

30. The Value of Art.

READING: H. Gene Blocker, The Esthetic Attitude.

31. Art as Ideal.

READING: Kenneth Clark, The Naked and the Nude.

32. Esthetics and Ideology.

READING: Jennifer Jeffers, The Politics of Representation: The Role of the Gaze in Pornography.

Recent Developments in Esthetics.

VIII. SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY.

33. Social and Political Philosophy.

34. The Liberal, Secular State.

READING: John Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration.

35. The Individual and the State.

READING: John Stuart Mill, On Liberty.

36. Individual Happiness and Social Responsibility.

READING: M. Andrew Holowchak, Happiness and Justice in “Liberal” Society: Autonomy as Political Integration.

37. Minority Group Rights.

Elizabeth Smith and H. Gene Blocker, Minority Groups and the State.

Recent Developments in Social and Political Philosophy.

IX. EASTERN THOUGHT.

38. Philosophy East and West.

39. Chinese Theories of Human Nature.

READINGS: Mencius, The Book of Mencius; Xun Zi, The Nature of Man is Evil; Dong Zhongshu, Man's Nature is Neither Good Nor Evil; Lao Tzu, The Tao Te Ching.

40. Indian Theories of Human Nature.

READINGS: The Bhagavad Gita; The Upanishads; The Vedanta Sutras, Shandkara; The Vedanta Sutras, Ramanuja.

Recent Developments in Eastern Thought.

Glossary of Terms.

Index.

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