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Introduction | |
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The Nature of Philosophy | |
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The Subject Matter of Philosophy | |
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The Method of Philosophy | |
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The Divisions of Philosophy | |
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Historical Periods of Philosophy | |
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The Value of Philosophy | |
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The Question of Human Nature | |
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A Commonsense Question | |
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A Scientific Question | |
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A Philosophical Question | |
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Evaluating Philosophical The ories | |
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Reasoned Judgments | |
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Universality | |
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Consistency | |
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Simplicity | |
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Descriptive and Normative The ories | |
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The Structure of this Text | |
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The HUMAN NATURE Website | |
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Theories of Human Nature | |
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Ancient Asian Philosophers | |
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Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha | |
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The Hindu Concept of Self (excerpt from THE UPANISHADS) | |
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The Buddhist Concept of Non-Self (excerpt from Thich Nhat Hanh, ZEN KEYS) | |
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Buddhist Ethics (selections from THE DHAMMAPADA) | |
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Sermons of the Buddha | |
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Confucius | |
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The Wisdom of Taoism (from Lao-Tzu, TAO TE CHING) | |
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Teachings of Confucius (selections from THE ANALECTS) | |
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On Human Nature (from Mencius, THE BOOK OF MENCIUS) | |
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Ancient Greek Philosophers 1: Plato | |
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The Cave (from THE REPUBLIC) | |
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The Divided Line (from THE REPUBLIC) | |
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The Individual and the State (from THE REPUBLIC) | |
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The Immortality of the Soul (from THE PHAEDO) | |
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Ancient Greek Philosophers 2: Aristotle | |
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The Mind (from DE ANIMA) | |
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The Soul (from DE ANIMA) | |
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The Good (from NICOMACHEAN ETHICS) | |
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Moral Virtue (from NICOMACHEAN ETHICS) | |
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Contemplation (from NICOMACHEAN ETHICS) | |
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Medieval The ologians: Augustine and Aquinas | |
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Augustine | |
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Free Will (from Augustine, ON FREE CHOICE OF THE WILL) | |
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The Nature of Time (from Augustine, CONFESSIONS) | |
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Aquinas | |
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The Existence of God (from SUMMA THEOLOGICA) | |
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The Active Intellect (from SUMMA THEOLOGICA) | |
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Free Will (from SUMMA THEOLOGICA) | |
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The Natural Law (from SUMMA THEOLOGICA) | |
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The Nature of the Soul (from SUMMA THEOLOGICA) | |
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The Ghost in the Machine: Descartes | |
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The Nature of the Mind (from THE MEDITATIONS) | |
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Science and Religion: Immanuel Kant | |
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The Nature of Ethics (from FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSICS OF MORALS) | |
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The Social Self: Karl Marx | |
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The Human Condition (from Marx, PHILOSOPHICAL AND ECONOMIC MANUSCRIPTS OF 1844) | |
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The Inevitability of Communism (from THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO) | |
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Existentialism: Jean-Paul Sartre | |
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The Authentic Life (from BEING AND NOTHINGNESS) | |
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The Look (from BEING AND NOTHINGNESS) | |
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The Causes of Gender Inequality (from Simone de Beauvoir, THE SECOND SEX) | |
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Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud | |
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The Structure and Function of the Mind (from Freud, AN OUTLINE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS) | |
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Standard Equipment 1: Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology | |
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The Origin of Man (Darwin, THE DESCENT OF MAN) | |
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The Biological Basis of Human Nature (from E.O | |
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Wilson, ON HUMAN NATURE) | |
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Principles of Evolutionary Psychology (from Leda Cosmides and John Tooby, EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY: A PRIMER) | |
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The Biological Basis of Gender Differences (from Helena Cronin, "Getting Human Nature Right") | |
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Standard Equipment 2: Cognitive Science | |
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In Defense of Eliminative Materialism (from Paul Churchland, MATTER AND CONSCIOUSNESS) | |
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The Illusion of Self (from Daniel Dennett, "Why Everyone is a Novelist") | |
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The Chinese Room (from John Searle, "Minds, Brains, and Programs") | |
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Life after Death (from Patricia Churchland, BRAIN-WISE) | |
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Nature and Nurture (from Mary Midgley and Judith Hughes, WOMEN'S CHOICES) | |
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Notes | |
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Index | |