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Introduction: The Idea of Ideas of Human Nature | |
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Religious Views | |
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In the Beginning: Views of Creation and Being | |
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Hindu: Bhagavad Gita | |
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Buddhist: Prajnaparamita Sutra | |
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Taoist: The Tao Te Ching | |
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Judeo-Christian: Old Testament | |
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Christian: New Testament | |
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Muslim: Koran (or Qur'an) | |
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Study Questions | |
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Some Additional Readings | |
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Body and Soul | |
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Plato: Phaedo | |
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Augustine: The City of God | |
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Lucretius: On the Nature of Things | |
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Aquinas: Summa Theologica and Summa Contra Gentiles | |
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Study Questions | |
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Some Additional Readings | |
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The Mind | |
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The Imprint of Experience | |
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Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | |
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Hume: A Treatise on Human Nature | |
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Kant: Critique of Pure Reason and Critique of Practical Reason | |
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Study Questions | |
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Some Additional Readings | |
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The Role of Reason | |
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Plato: The Republic and Phaedrus | |
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Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics | |
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Smith: The Wealth of Nations | |
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Doyle: A Study in Scarlet | |
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Study Questions | |
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Some Additional Readings | |
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The Limits of Reason | |
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Dostoyevsky: Notes from Underground | |
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Crane: The Black Riders | |
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Study Questions | |
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Some Additional Readings | |
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The Mind/Brain Problem | |
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Descartes: Discourse on the Method, Meditations on First Philosophy, Treatise on Man, and Automatism of Brutes | |
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La Mettrie: Man a Machine | |
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Crick: The Astonishing Hypothesis | |
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Study Questions | |
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Some Additional Readings | |
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Behaviorism | |
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Watson: Behaviorism | |
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Skinner: Science and Human Behavior and Beyond Freedom and Dignity | |
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Study Questions | |
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Some Additional Readings | |
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Psychoanalysis | |
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Freud: The Interpretation of Dreams, The Ego and the Id, Totem and Taboo, and Civilization and Its Discontents | |
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Study Questions | |
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Some Additional Readings | |
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The Social Setting | |
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People Are Basically Bad | |
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Plato: The Republic | |
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Augustine: The City of God | |
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Hobbes: The Leviathan | |
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Kafka: The Bucket Rider | |
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Study Questions | |
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Some Additional Readings | |
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People Are Basically Good | |
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Rousseau: Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (Second Discourse) | |
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Kropotkin: Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution | |
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Study Questions | |
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Some Additional Readings | |
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People Are Basically a Product of Their Cultures | |
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Durkheim: Rules of Sociological Method | |
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Boas: The Mind of Primitive Man | |
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Kroeber: The Superorganic | |
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Study Questions | |
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Some Additional Readings | |
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Marxist "Man" and Alienation | |
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Marx: Comments on James Mill, The Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844, The Grundrisse, and Das Kapital | |
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Markham: The Man with the Hoe | |
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Study Questions | |
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Some Additional Readings | |
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The Pursuit of Power | |
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Machiavelli: The Prince | |
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Nietzsche: The Antichrist and Thus Spoke Zarathustra | |
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London: The Sea-Wolf | |
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Study Questions | |
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Some Additional Readings | |
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The Existential Imagination | |
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Kierkegaard: Either/Or, Fear and Trembling, and Concluding Unscientific Postscript | |
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Sartre: Existentialism and Humanism and Being and Nothingness | |
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Camus: The Myth of Sisyphus and The Plague | |
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Study Questions | |
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Some Additional Readings | |
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Sex and Gender | |
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Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | |
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Mill: The Subjection of Women | |
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Stanton: Introduction to The Woman's Bible | |
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Woolf: A Room of One's Own | |
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Beauvoir: The Second Sex | |
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Gilligan: In a Different Voice | |
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Study Questions | |
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Some Additional Readings | |
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The Human Animal? | |
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Humans as Animals, and Vice Versa | |
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Swift: Gulliver's Travels | |
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Lorenz: On Aggression | |
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Griffin: Animal Minds | |
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Study Questions | |
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Some Additional Readings | |
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Evolution and Sociobiology | |
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Darwin: The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man | |
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Wilson: Sociobiology and On Human Nature | |
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Dawkins: The Selfish Gene | |
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Study Questions | |
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Some Additional Readings | |
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Uniquely Human? | |
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Becker: The Denial of Death | |
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Pinker: The Language Instinct | |
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Westermarck: The History of Human Marriage | |
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Study Questions | |
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Some Additional Readings | |
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Credits | |