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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 | |