Archetypes of Wisdom An Introduction to Philosophy

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Authors: Douglas J. Soccio

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Featuring Douglas J. Soccio's lucid and conversational prose and a well-chosen, reader-friendly array of succinct excerpts from canonical primary sources, ARCHETYPES OF WISDOM brings philosophy to life for its readers through the examination of many paradigmatic philosophies and philosophers. Very much a student-focused book that speaks out of Soccio's non-condescending desire to speak to students where they "are" and not where they "should be," ARCHETYPES OF WISDOM includes numerous pedagogical illustrations and features (Philosophical Queries, a Marginal Glossary, Chapter Summaries, End-of-Chapter Questions for Reflection, to name a few) to make this often-times daunting subject the…

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List price: $96.95
Edition: 5th
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 6/23/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 592
Size: 8.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.244
Language: English

Douglas Soccio was professor of philosophy at Shasta College for nearly 30 years. In addition to ARCHETYPES OF WISDOM: AN INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY, 9E, he is the author of HOW TO GET THE MOST OUT OF PHILOSOPHY, and, with Vincent E. Barry, PRACTICAL LOGIC, all of which are published by Cengage Learning. For three years he wrote a weekly philosophy column for the REDDING RECORD SEARCHLIGHT. Now devoted to writing on a full-time basis, he is presently developing a collection of philosophical stories that express what he describes as "philosophy with a heart," a generous notion of philosophy that infuses all of his writing.

Philosophy and the Search for Wisdom	p. 1
What to Expect from This Book	p. 3
Areas of Philosophy	p. 4
Philosophical Archetypes	p. 5
Are Philosophers Always Men?	p. 7
Philosophy and the Search for Truth	p. 8
"Isn't All This Just a Matter of Opinion?"	p. 10
Wisdom, Knowledge, and Belief	p. 12
Knowledge	p. 12
Belief	p. 13
Willed Ignorance	p. 14
A Note about the Spirit of Philosophy	p. 14
Overview of Classical Themes	p. 19
Nature and Convention	p. 21
Contemporary Lessons from the Past	p. 22
The Search for Excellence	p. 23
The Search for Happiness	p. 24
The Asian Sage: Lao-tzu and Buddha	p. 25
The Taoist Sage: Lao-tzu	p. 27
The Way	p. 30
People Cannot Stop Talking About It	p. 31
The Way of Reversal	p. 32
Prefer Yin to Yang	p. 34
The Union of Relative Opposites	p. 35
The Doctrine of Inaction	p. 36
Doing Nothing	p. 37
The Buddha	p. 40
Siddhartha the Seeker	p. 40
The Long Search	p. 41
The Bodhisattva	p. 42
The Death of the Buddha	p. 44
Buddha's Philosophy Lab	p. 46
Unsatisfactoriness	p. 46
Karma	p. 48
The Four Noble Truths	p. 48
The Eightfold Path	p. 49
Buddha Now	p. 51
Buddha's Dharma Family	p. 52
The Buddha's Legacy	p. 52
Five Precepts	p. 54
What The Buddha Did Not Explain	p. 55
Commentary	p. 56
The Presocratic Sophos	p. 61
From Sophos to Philosopher	p. 64
The Search for a Common Principle	p. 64
Thales	p. 65
Rational Discourse	p. 65
The Problem of Change	p. 66
Quality and Quantity	p. 67
The One	p. 67
Being and Change	p. 69
The Many	p. 70
Mind	p. 71
Atoms and the Void	p. 72
Reason and Necessity	p. 74
Nature and Convention	p. 75
The Logos	p. 75
Appearance and Reality	p. 77
War and Strife	p. 78
Commentary	p. 79
The Sophist: Protagoras	p. 82
The Advent of Professional Educators	p. 85
The Sophists	p. 86
Power and Education	p. 88
Relativism	p. 89
Protagoras the Pragmatist	p. 90
Moral Realism: Might Makes Right	p. 94
The Doctrine of the Superior Individual	p. 96
Commentary	p. 97
The Wise Man: Socrates	p. 102
The General Character of Socrates	p. 104
The Ugliest Man in Athens	p. 105
Barefoot in Athens	p. 107
A Most Unusual Father and Husband	p. 108
The Archetypal Individual	p. 109
The Teacher and His Teachings	p. 112
The Dialectic	p. 113
Socratic Irony	p. 113
Socrates at Work	p. 114
Sophos versus Sophist	p. 116
The Unexamined Life	p. 119
Socratic Ignorance	p. 120
The Power of Human Wisdom	p. 122
The Physician of the Soul	p. 124
No One Knowingly Does Evil	p. 125
Virtue Is Wisdom	p. 126
The Trial and Death of Socrates	p. 128
The Death of Socrates	p. 130
Commentary	p. 133
The Philosopher-King: Plato	p. 137
Plato's Life and Work	p. 139
The Decline of the Aristocracy	p. 140
Plato's Disillusionment	p. 142
The Academy	p. 143
Plato's Epistemology	p. 144
Plato's Dualistic Solution	p. 145
Knowledge and Being	p. 145
The Theory of Forms	p. 146
What Are Forms?	p. 146
Why Plato Needed the Forms	p. 148
Knowledge and Opinion	p. 149
What Happens When We Disagree?	p. 150
The Divided Line	p. 151
Levels of Awareness	p. 152
The Simile of the Sun	p. 154
The Allegory of the Cave	p. 155
The Rule of the Wise	p. 158
The Republic	p. 159
The Search for Justice	p. 160
Function and Happiness	p. 161
The Ideal State	p. 161
The Parts of the Soul	p. 162
The Cardinal Virtues	p. 163
Societies and Individuals	p. 164
The Origin of Democracy	p. 164
The Pendulum of Imbalance	p. 166
The Tyranny of Excess	p. 168
Commentary	p. 168
The Naturalist: Aristotle	p. 172
Works	p. 174
Aristotle's Life	p. 174
The Lyceum	p. 175
The Naturalist	p. 177
Natural Changes	p. 178
Form	p. 178
Matter	p. 179
Change	p. 180
Aristotle's Hierarchy of Explanations	p. 181
The Four Causes	p. 182
Material Cause	p. 182
Formal Cause	p. 183
Efficient Cause	p. 184
Final Cause	p. 184
Entelechy	p. 185
Psyche as Entelechy	p. 185
The Hierarchy of Souls	p. 186
Natural Happiness	p. 187
The Good	p. 188
Teleological Thinking	p. 188
The Science of the Good	p. 190
Eudaimonia	p. 191
The Good Life Is a Process	p. 192
Hitting the Mark	p. 193
The Principle of the Mean	p. 194
Character and Habit	p. 195
Application of the Mean	p. 196
Commentary	p. 198
The Stoic: Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius	p. 202
The Cynical Origins of Stoicism	p. 205
The Slave and the Emperor	p. 207
Epictetus: From Slave to Sage	p. 208
Marcus Aurelius: Philosopher-King	p. 209
The Fated Life	p. 210
The Stoic Logos	p. 211
The Disinterested Rational Will	p. 213
Stoic Wisdom	p. 215
Control versus Influence	p. 216
Some Things Are Not in Our Control	p. 217
Some Things Are in Our Control	p. 218
Relationships	p. 219
Everything Has a Price	p. 222
Suffering and Courage	p. 222
Stoicism Today	p. 224
Reality Therapy: William Glasser	p. 225
Rational-Emotive Therapy: Albert Ellis	p. 225
Logotherapy: Viktor E. Frankl	p. 226
Epictetus in Vietnam	p. 227
Commentary	p. 229
The Scholar: Thomas Aquinas	p. 233
The God-Centered Universe	p. 235
The Seeds of Change	p. 236
The Need to Reconcile Faith and Reason	p. 237
The Life of Thomas Aquinas	p. 238
The Dominican	p. 239
The University of Paris	p. 239
Albertus Magnus: The Universal Teacher	p. 240
The Task of the Scholar	p. 242
The Wisdom of the Scholar	p. 242
Why Do People Argue About Spiritual Matters?	p. 244
God and Natural Reason	p. 244
Proving the Existence of God	p. 245
The First Way: Motion	p. 246
The Second Way: Cause	p. 246
The Third Way: Necessity	p. 247
The Fourth Way: Degree	p. 249
The Fifth Way: Design	p. 250
Commentary on the Five Ways	p. 251
Complications for Natural Theology	p. 254
The Problem of Evil	p. 254
Commentary	p. 257
Overview of Modern Themes	p. 260
Reason, Reformation, and Revolution	p. 261
The Reformation	p. 261
The Copernican Revolution	p. 263
Where Are We, Then?	p. 266
The Rationalist: Rene Descartes	p. 267
The Problem of Authority	p. 268
Rene Descartes: The Solitary Intellect	p. 269
Rationalism	p. 271
Against Disorganized Thinking	p. 271
The Method of Doubt	p. 273
The Cartesian "I" and Methodic Doubt	p. 275
Standard of Truth	p. 276
Innate Ideas	p. 277
The Cartesian Genesis	p. 278
The Doubting Self	p. 278
Maybe It's All a Dream?	p. 279
The Evil Genius	p. 280
Cogito, ergo sum	p. 281
The Innate Idea of God	p. 283
The Perfect Idea of Perfection	p. 283
Descartes' Ontological Argument	p. 285
Reconstructing the World	p. 287
The Cartesian Bridge	p. 288
Cartesian Dualism	p. 288
The Mind-Body Problem	p. 289
Commentary	p. 291
The Skeptic: David Hume	p. 294
John Locke	p. 297
Experience Is the Origin of All Ideas	p. 298
Locke's Rejection of Innate Ideas	p. 299
Locke's Dualism	p. 300
Primary and Secondary Qualities	p. 301
Locke's Egocentric Predicament	p. 302
George Berkeley	p. 303
David Hume: The Scottish Skeptic	p. 306
The Skeptical Masterpiece	p. 307
An Honest Man	p. 308
Hume's Skeptical Empiricism	p. 310
Impressions and Ideas	p. 311
The Empirical Criterion of Meaning	p. 311
The Self	p. 312
Personal Immortality	p. 314
The Limits of Reason	p. 315
The Limits of Science	p. 316
The Limits of Theology	p. 318
The Limits of Ethics	p. 320
The Facts, Just the Facts	p. 322
Moral Sentiments	p. 323
Rejection of Egoism	p. 324
Commentary	p. 325
The Universalist: Immanuel Kant	p. 330
The Professor	p. 332
The Solitary Writer	p. 333
A Scandal in Philosophy	p. 335
Kant's Copernican Revolution	p. 337
Critical Philosophy	p. 339
Phenomena and Noumena	p. 340
Transcendental Ideas	p. 340
The Objectivity of Experience	p. 342
The Metaphysics of Morals	p. 344
Practical Reason	p. 344
The Moral Law Within	p. 345
The Good Will	p. 346
Inclinations, Wishes, Acts of Will	p. 347
Moral Duty	p. 348
Hypothetical Imperatives	p. 349
The Categorical Imperative	p. 350
The Kingdom of Ends	p. 353
Commentary	p. 355
The Utilitarian: John Stuart Mill	p. 359
Unrefined Hedonism	p. 361
The Meaning of Life Is Pleasure	p. 361
Knowledge and Pleasure	p. 362
Epicurean Hedonism	p. 363
The Garden of Epicurus	p. 364
Quality versus Quantity	p. 364
Social Hedonism	p. 365
Philosophy and Social Reform	p. 367
The Principle of Utility	p. 368
The Hedonic Calculus	p. 369
The Egoistic Foundation of Social Concern	p. 370
John Stuart Mill	p. 371
Mill's Crisis	p. 372
Redemption and Balance	p. 373
Refined Utilitarianism	p. 375
Higher Pleasures	p. 377
Lower Pleasures	p. 377
Altruism and Happiness	p. 379
Utilitarian Social Logic	p. 381
Happiness and Mere Contentment	p. 382
Mill's Persistent Optimism	p. 382
Commentary	p. 384
The Materialist: Karl Marx	p. 389
The Prophet	p. 391
Marx's Hegelian Roots	p. 391
Other Influences	p. 392
The Wanderer	p. 393
Friedrich Engels	p. 395
Vindication	p. 395
Dialectical Materialism	p. 396
Mystification and Materialism	p. 398
Economic Determinism	p. 400
Critique of Capitalism	p. 402
The Bourgeoisie and the Proletariat	p. 402
Co-Option	p. 405
Class Struggle	p. 406
Seeds of Destruction	p. 407
Alienation	p. 408
Psychic Alienation	p. 410
Species-Life	p. 411
Commentary	p. 412
Overview of Postmodern Themes	p. 416
What Is Philosophy (continued)?	p. 417
Of Metaphors and Margins	p. 418
Is Objectivity Possible?	p. 419
Is Objectivity Desirable?	p. 420
The Existentialists: Soren Kierkegaard and Jean-Paul Sartre	p. 422
Existentialism Was Bound to Happen	p. 424
Soren Kierkegaard	p. 425
The Family Curse	p. 425
The Universal Formula	p. 426
The Christian	p. 428
That Individual	p. 429
Truth as Subjectivity	p. 429
Objectivity as Untruth	p. 432
The Present Age	p. 433
An Age of Virtual Equality	p. 434
Sartre and the Age of Forlornness	p. 437
Jean-Paul Sartre	p. 438
Nausea	p. 439
Existence Is Absurd	p. 440
The Celebrity Philosopher	p. 440
Freedom and Anguish	p. 441
Forlornness	p. 442
Condemnned to Be Free	p. 444
Anguish	p. 446
Despair	p. 448
Optimistic Toughness	p. 450
Commentary	p. 451
The Anti-Philosopher: Friedrich Nietzsche	p. 455
The Outside	p. 458
Beyond the Academy	p. 459
Tragic Optimism	p. 460
Zarathustra Speaks	p. 460
The Last Philosopher	p. 463
Truth Is a Matter of Perspective	p. 464
Attack on Objectivity	p. 465
The Will to Power	p. 466
The Diseases of Modernity	p. 467
The Problem of Morality	p. 468
The Problem of Being Moralistic	p. 469
The Problem of Utilitarianism	p. 470
The Problem of Altruism	p. 470
The Problem of Generalized Accounts	p. 471
God Is Dead	p. 472
Nihilism	p. 473
Overman	p. 474
Slave Morality	p. 475
Ressentiment	p. 477
Master Morality	p. 479
The Eternal Recurrence	p. 482
Amor Fati	p. 484
Commentary	p. 484
The Pragmatist: William James	p. 488
An American Original	p. 490
The Education of a Philosopher	p. 490
The Philosopher as Hero	p. 492
The Philosopher as Advocate	p. 493
Charles Sanders Peirce	p. 494
Peirce's "Pragmaticism"	p. 494
Pragmatic Theory of Meaning	p. 495
Pragmatism	p. 496
Pragmatic Method and Philosophy	p. 496
The Temper of Belief	p. 498
The Will to Believe	p. 500
Truth Happens to an Idea	p. 501
The Dilemma of Determinism	p. 503
The Inner Sense of Freedom	p. 504
Morality and the Good	p. 506
The Heroic Life	p. 507
Pragmatic Religion	p. 508
A Religious Dilemma	p. 509
Ultramarginal Life	p. 510
Truth Is Always Personal	p. 512
Danger Signs	p. 513
Commentary	p. 514
Philosophy as a Way of Life	p. 519
Public and Private Philosophy	p. 522
Can Wisdom Be Generalized?	p. 522
The Masculinization of Thought	p. 524
From Cosmos To Machine	p. 524
A Masculine Theory of Justice	p. 526
What About Family Justice?	p. 527
The Reemergence of Other Voices	p. 529
Philosophizing in a Different Voice	p. 529
Public Philosophers	p. 531
Martha C. Nussbaum: "Lawyer for Humanity"	p. 532
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Philosophic Activist	p. 533
Character Is Destiny	p. 535
The Value of Moral Tension	p. 536
Peter Singer: "The Dangerous Philosopher"	p. 538
The Singer Solution to World Poverty	p. 539
A Vision for You	p. 541
Philosophy as a Way of Life	p. 542
Let Philosophy Touch Your Heart	p. 544
A Message From Epictetus	p. 545
Commentary	p. 545
Notes	p. 549
Glossary	p. 561
Bibliography of Interesting Sources	p. 571
Credits	p. 577
Index of Margin Quotes	p. 579
Index	p. 581
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