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Preface | |
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Introduction | |
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What Is Philosophy? | |
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A Definition of Philosophy | |
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What Is Rationality? | |
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Reading Philosophy | |
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Does Philosophy Bake Bread? | |
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BERTRAND RUSSELL: On the Value of Philosophy | |
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Thinking and Writing Philosophically | |
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A Little Logic | |
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How to Write Philosophy | |
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Value Theory (Axiology) | |
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How Should One Live? | |
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Introduction | |
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The Buddha and the Middle Way | |
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THE BUDDHA: The Four Noble Truths | |
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WALPOLA RAHULA: The Fourth Noble Truth | |
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Confucius and the Life of Virtue | |
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D.C.LAU: Confucius and Moral Character | |
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Socrates on Living the Examined Life | |
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PLATO: The Apology | |
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Aristotle on Happiness and the Life of Moderation | |
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ARISTOTLE: Nicomachean Ethics | |
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The Song of God | |
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Bhagavad-Gita | |
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What is the Meaning of Life [NEW] | |
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SUSAN WOLF: Meaning in Life [NEW] | |
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How Can I Know What Is Right? | |
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Introduction | |
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Kant and the Categorical Imperative | |
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IMMANUEL KANT: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals | |
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Utilitarianism | |
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JOHN STUART MILL: What Utilitarianism Is | |
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Revaluation of Values | |
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE: Beyond Good and Evil | |
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE: On the Genealogy of Morality | |
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The Divine Command Theory[NEW] | |
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AL-ASHARI The Theology of Al-Ashari: [NEW] | |
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KAI NIELSEN Ethics without God [NEW] | |
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The Ethics of Care | |
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VIRGINIA HELD: Justice, Utility,and Care [NEW] | |
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Moral Relativism [NEW] | |
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LOUIS P | |
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POJMAN: A Critique of Ethical Relativism [NEW] | |
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What Makes a Society Just? | |
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Introduction | |
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God and Justice | |
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KHALED ABOU EL FADL: Islam and Democracy | |
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Capitalism and Exploitation | |
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KARL MARX AND FRIEDRICH ENGELS: Manifesto of the Communist Party | |
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The Original Position | |
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JOHN RAWLS: A Theory of Justice | |
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Our Obligation to the State | |
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PLATO: Crito | |
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Civil Disobedience | |
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MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: Letter from Birmingham Jail | |
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God Is Red | |
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VINE DELORIA, JR.: Sacred Places and Moral Responsibility | |
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Is Justice for All Possible? | |
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Introduction | |
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Sexism, Racism, and Homophobia | |
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Bell hooks: Ain't I a Woman | |
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CORNEL WEST: Race Matters | |
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SUZANNE PHARR: Homophobia as a Weapon of Sexism | |
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Illegal Immigration [NEW] | |
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REGINALD WILLIAMS: A Case for Residency [NEW] | |
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Globalization and Justice | |
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PETER SINGER: One World: The Ethics of Globalization | |
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Terrorism and Morality | |
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BAT-AMI BAR ON: Why Terrorism Is Morally Problematic | |
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Philosophy in a Time of Terror | |
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J�GEN HABERMAS: Fundamentalism and Terror | |
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SLAVOJ �I�EK: Violence [NEW] | |
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What Is Aesthetic Value?Introduction | |
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Epistemology | |
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Is Knowledge Possible? | |
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Does Science Tell Us the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth?Introduction | |
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Metaphysics | |
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What Is Really Real?Introduction | |