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| Prelude | |
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| Credit, Blame, and Acknowledgments | |
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| What Do You Mean, Philosophy? | |
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| The Fine Art of Wondering | |
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| The World-Riddle | |
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| Just in Case... | |
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| The Human Condition | |
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| The Search for Meaning | |
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| Why-Questions | |
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| The World-Riddle | |
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| Philosopher-King | |
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| Reflections | |
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| The Spirit of Inquiry | |
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| The Love of Wisdom | |
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| The Greek Miracle | |
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| Freedom to Wonder and to Ask Questions | |
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| A Western Dilemma | |
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| Belief, Doubt, Critical Thinking, and Faith | |
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| The Wisest Man Alive | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Critical Analysis | |
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| The Philosophic Mind | |
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| Critical Skills | |
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| Brief Skirmishes/Examples of Critical Thinking | |
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| A Special Kind of Listening | |
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| The First Educator | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Synoptic Synthesis | |
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| And He Wants to Understand It | |
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| Life on a Picture-Puzzle | |
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| The Annihilation of Boundaries | |
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| How to Do Synoptic Philosophy | |
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| The Synoptic Venture: Risks and Rewards | |
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| "I Can Float Over the Orchard as in a Balloon" | |
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| The First Scientific Worldview | |
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| Reflections | |
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| The Condition and the Odyssey | |
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| Predicament | |
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| The Coherent Worldview | |
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| The Egocentric Predicament | |
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| Aristocentric Claims | |
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| Egocentric Illusions in Time and Space | |
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| Man and the Absurd | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Self | |
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| How Much of Me Is Me? | |
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| A Sense of Self | |
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| A Sense of Worth | |
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| The Autonomous Self | |
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| The Productive Life | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Growth | |
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| When Things Go Wrong | |
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| The Masks We Wear | |
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| I Will Not Stop Till I Know | |
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| Growth and Insecurity | |
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| The Answer-Givers | |
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| Crisis of Authority | |
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| Developing Self-Awareness | |
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| The Law of Pathei Mathos | |
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| Our Humanity Is Blocked by Our Pain | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Lifetime | |
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| All the World's a Stage... | |
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| Mapping a Lifetime | |
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| The Ground Plan | |
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| Infancy to Childhood | |
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| The Adolescent Years | |
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| The Maturing Years | |
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| The Shriek of Ivan Ilytch | |
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| The Laughing Philosopher | |
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| Reflections | |
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| The Real World: Knowing and Unknowing | |
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| Knowledge | |
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| Epistemic Awareness | |
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| The Senses: Empirical Knowledge | |
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| Knowledge from Others | |
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| Reason: Using Known Facts | |
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| Intuition: Knowledge from the Depths | |
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| Reality and Appearance | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Senses | |
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| We Never See the Real World | |
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| The Mind Manufactures Experience | |
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| Our Senses Deceive | |
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| Sensory Limitations and Reality | |
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| Epistemic Loneliness | |
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| The Pragmatic Nature of Knowing | |
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| The Irish Immaterialist | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Mind | |
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| The Pragmatic Thinker | |
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| Why We Think in Abstractions | |
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| Classifying and Labeling | |
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| Our Mental Grids | |
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| What It Means to Be a Hummingbird | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Truth | |
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| Truth-Tests | |
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| The Correspondence Test | |
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| The Coherence Test | |
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| The Pragmatic Test | |
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| The Pragmatic Paradox | |
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| "Truth Happens to an Idea" | |
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| Reflections | |
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| The Inner World: The Fantastic Journey | |
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| Psyche | |
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| The Exploration of Inner Space | |
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| Huxley's Deep Reflection | |
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| Mystical Unity | |
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| Zen Satori | |
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| Religious Ecstasy | |
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| The Fantastic Journey | |
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| One Who Awakened | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Time | |
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| A Philosophy of Time | |
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| Clock Time | |
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| Psychological Time | |
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| Real Time | |
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| Saint Augustine: God's Time and Ours | |
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| Newton: Absolute Time | |
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| Time Past | |
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| Time Future | |
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| Time Present | |
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| Time and Personal Existence | |
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| The Starry Heavens and the Moral Law | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Freedom | |
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| The Feeling of Freedom | |
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| The Dilemma of Determinism | |
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| The Case for Determinism | |
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| The Case for Freedom of Choice | |
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| Apostle of Freedom | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Symbols | |
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| The Functions of Language | |
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| The Many Roles of Language | |
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| Communications Analysis | |
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| Definitions and Contexts | |
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| Dissolving the Riddles of Life | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Delicate Coexistence: The Human Love/Hate Condition | |
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| History | |
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| Theater of the Absurd | |
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| The Meaning of History | |
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| Toynbee's Organismic Interpretation of History | |
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| The Plight of Western Civilization | |
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| The Roots of Violence | |
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| Can We Learn from History? | |
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| "Reason Is the Substance of the Universe" | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Laws/Conscience | |
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| Conflicting Loyalties | |
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| Good Laws and Bad Laws | |
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| Loyalty to Higher Authority | |
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| Obedience to the Rule of Law | |
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| The Personal Dilemma | |
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| "I Will Breathe After My Own Fashion" | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Lifestyles | |
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| The Bonds of Culture | |
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| Prisoners | |
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| Alternatives to Remaining Prisoners | |
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| Cultural Relativity | |
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| Personal Alienation | |
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| "I Learned This, at Least..." | |
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| The Hound-Dog Philosopher | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Ethics | |
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| Sin and/or Virtue | |
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| Debatable and Nondebatable Value Judgments | |
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| The Morality of Ethics/The Ethics of Morality | |
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| Three Ethical Questions | |
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| Who Really Makes Decisions? | |
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| What Makes a Decision Right or Wrong? | |
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| Whom (and What) Should I Care About? | |
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| Courage and Compassion in the Modern World | |
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| Reflections | |
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| The Protoplasmic Venture | |
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| Life | |
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| Four Great Etiological Questions | |
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| Biochemical Evolution | |
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| The Beginning of Life on Earth | |
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| Earth's Life-Forms: An Inventory | |
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| Biogenetic Theories | |
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| Can "Life" Be Defined? | |
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| Evolution as a Field Theory | |
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| Philosophic Implications | |
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| Philosophic Problems | |
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| The Grandest Synthesis | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Humans | |
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| The Sculptor-Gods | |
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| The Story of Human Origins | |
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| Still Trying to Define "Human" | |
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| The Killer-Ape Theory | |
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| The Immense Journey | |
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| "That Individual" | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Earth | |
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| Our Place in the Scheme of Things | |
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| An Ecospheric Ethic | |
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| Coexistence-In Life and Death | |
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| "No Man Is an Iland" | |
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| Reverence for Life | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Future | |
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| The Theoretical Life | |
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| Research into the Future | |
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| The Futurists and the Future | |
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| A New Kind of Realism | |
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| A Special Kind of Hope | |
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| Many Futures: A Common Vision | |
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| The Glory of Becoming Human | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Microcosm/Macrocosm/Cosmos | |
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| Knowledge of Nature | |
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| May 28, 585 bc | |
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| Empirical Knowledge | |
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| A Priori Knowledge | |
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| Other Ways of Knowing? | |
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| Realities beyond Appearances | |
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| This World-What Is It? | |
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| The Dematerialization of Matter | |
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| What Is the Origin of Matter? | |
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| The Universe Is Made of Numbers | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Space/Time/Motion | |
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| What Physics Is and Isn't | |
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| Classical Physics | |
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| Relativity Physics | |
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| Quantum Mechanics | |
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| The Second Scientific Revolution | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Cosmos | |
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| Ancient Cosmologies | |
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| Today's Universe | |
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| The Expanding Universe | |
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| The Story of the Universe | |
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| There Are Still Mysteries | |
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| What Does It All Mean (If Anything)? | |
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| "The Noblest Eye Is Darkened" | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Biocosmos | |
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| We Are Not Alone | |
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| A Cosmic Context for Mankind | |
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| Our Expanding Consciousness | |
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| Consequences | |
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| The Human Preserve | |
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| The Encyclopaedia Galactica | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Of Ultimate Concern | |
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| Of Ultimate Concern | |
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| Greek Tragedy | |
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| Transformation | |
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| The Role of Myth | |
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| The Anthropomorphic Spirits | |
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| Spirit Possession | |
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| Teleocosmic Dramas | |
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| Apocalyptic Dramas | |
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| The Eschaton-End of Drama | |
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| All Religion Is One | |
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| The Hero with a Thousand Faces | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Ultimate Reality | |
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| Ultimate Questions | |
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| The Problem of Divine Knowledge | |
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| Arguments for the Existence of God | |
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| The Death(s) of God(s) | |
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| The Other Side of Kanchenjunga | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Death/Immortality | |
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| All Graves Are Wrong | |
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| Death Is a Nonexperience | |
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| Fear of Nonbeing | |
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| The Denial of Death | |
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| Arguments for Immortality | |
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| Arguments Against Immortality | |
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| The Future of Death | |
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| "One Thing at Least Is Certain-This Life Flies" | |
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| The Last Rite of Passage | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Meaning/Existence | |
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| The Knowledge That Hurts Most | |
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| What Did I Want? | |
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| Existence and the Real: Persistent Confusion | |
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| Trivialities | |
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| Work, Work...to Kill the Flowers | |
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| The World-Riddle | |
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| "I Know Not If I Shall Ever Anchor" | |
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| Reflections | |
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| Postlude | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index to Marginal Quotations | |
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| Name/Subject Index | |