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Note to the Instructor | |
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Features | |
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Message to Students | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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What is Philosophy? What's in it for Me? | |
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Take It Personally | |
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Know Thyself: My Preconceptions about Philosophy | |
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Philosophy and Philosophers: Caricatures, Myths, and Realities | |
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The Philosopher's Profile | |
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Wisdom: The Object of Love | |
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The Practical Value of Philosophy | |
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Therapeutic Applications of Philosophy: Back to the Future | |
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Philosophy's Relevance in an Age of Information and Emerging Technologies | |
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Fields of Philosophy | |
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Approaches to Philosophy | |
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Historical Periods of Philosophy | |
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Original Sourcework: The Problems of Philosophy | |
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Study Guide | |
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Philosophies of Life | |
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Take It Personally | |
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Know Thyself: The Philosophy of Life Preference Indicator | |
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Stoicism: A Prescription for Peace of Mind | |
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Original Sourcework: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius | |
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Existentialism: Born Free, Let Me Be Me | |
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Know Thyself: The Purpose in Life Test | |
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Original Sourcework: The Humanism of Existentialism | |
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Philosophical Segue: Fate, Free Will, and Determinism | |
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Hedonism: Pleasure Is the Measure | |
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Original Sourcework: Letter to Menoeceus | |
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Buddhism as a Philosophy of Life | |
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Original Sourcework: Basic Characteristics of Buddhist Culture | |
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Study Guide | |
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Philosophical Argument ... That Sounds Logical! | |
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Take It Personally | |
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Original Sourcework: "Euthyphro" featuring the Socratic Method | |
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Know Thyself: How Rational Am I? | |
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Opinions versus Arguments | |
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Factual Statements versus Value Judgments | |
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Deductive Arguments | |
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Inductive Logic | |
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Faulty and Fallacious Reasoning | |
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Informal Logical Fallacies | |
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Study Guide | |
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Epistemology, Metaphysics, and God | |
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Take It Personally | |
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Know Thyself: My Philosophical Presuppositions about Knowledge and Reality | |
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Preliminary Questions and Definitions | |
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Plato's Metaphysical Epistemology | |
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Original Sourcework: Simile of the Sun | |
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Original Sourcework: Allegory of the Cave | |
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Rationalism: Rene Descartes | |
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Original Sourcework: First Meditation Concerning Things that Can Be Doubted | |
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Original Sourcework: Second Meditation of the Nature of the Human Mind, and That It Is More Easily Known than the Body | |
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Original Sourcework: The Wax Example | |
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British Empiricism: Locke, Berkeley, and Hume | |
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Original Sourcework: Skeptical Doubts Concerning the Operations of the Understanding | |
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Original Sourcework: An Afrocentric/Feminist Standpoint Challenges the Tradition of Positivism | |
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Immanuel Kant's Synthesis of Rationalism and Empiricism | |
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Original Sourcework: The Distinction between Analytic and Synthetic Judgments | |
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Original Sourcework: The Language of the Hopi Provides a Metaphysics Without Space and Time | |
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Philosophical Segue: Proofs for the Existence of God | |
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Original Sourcework: Whether God Exists? | |
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Study Guide | |
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Ethics and Moral Decision Making | |
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Take It Personally | |
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Know Thyself: The Ethical Perspective Indicator | |
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Character Ethics: Plato | |
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Know Thyself: Platonic Character Type Index (PCTI) | |
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Plato's Character Types | |
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Original Sourcework: Virtue and Justice in the Individual and in the State | |
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Utilitarian Ethics: Jeremy Bentham | |
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Original Sourcework: An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation | |
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Deontological Ethics: Immanuel Kant | |
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Original Sourcework: Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals | |
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Feminine Ethics: Carol Gilligan and Nel Noddings | |
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Original Sourcework: Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education | |
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Existentialist Ethics: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche | |
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Original Sourcework: The Gay Science | |
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Objectivist Ethics: Ayn Rand | |
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Original Sourcework: The Objectivist Ethics | |
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Philosophical Segue: Religion and Ethics: Islamic, Hindu, and Christian Perspectives | |
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Original Sourcework: Islamic View of Human Rights | |
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Original Sourcework: Transcreation of the Bhagavad Gita | |
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Original Sourcework: Roman Catholic Ethics: Three Approaches | |
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Study Guide | |
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Political Philosophy | |
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Take It Personally | |
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Know Thyself: My Political Outlook | |
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Political Philosophy versus Politics and Political Science | |
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Plato's Republic | |
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Original Sourcework: The Nature of Woman | |
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Social Contract Theorists: Hobbes and Locke | |
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Thomas Hobbes | |
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Original Sourcework: Of the Causes, Generation, and Definition of a Commonwealth | |
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John Locke | |
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Original Sourcework: Of the Ends of Political Society and Government | |
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Karl Marx | |