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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Self, Mind, and Body | |
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| Do We Have an Essential Self or Soul? | |
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| Dialogue with Death: From the Upanishads | |
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| On Personal Identity | |
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| The Questions of King Milinda on the Self: From the Buddhist Scriptures | |
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| There Is No Personal Identity | |
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| A Dialogue on Immortality | |
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| To What Extent Do Our Bodies Determine Who We Are? | |
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| The Nature of the Soul and Its Relation to the Body | |
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| Of the Real Distinction Between Mind and Body | |
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| Woman as Body: Ancient and Contemporary Views | |
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| Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons | |
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| Disciplining the Body | |
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| Where Am I? | |
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| What Else Determines Who I Am? | |
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| Zarathustra's Prologue and Three Speeches | |
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| The Question of Lay Analysis | |
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| The Social Self | |
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| The Illusion of Human Freedom | |
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| Existentialism Is a Humanism | |
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| Woman as the Second Sex | |
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| An Autobiographical View of Mixed Race and Deracination | |
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| Creation and Reality | |
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| How Did We Get Here? | |
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| An African Creation Story: From the Sacred Storytelling of the Boshongo People | |
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| Creation of the World from the Self: From the Upanishads | |
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| The Creation and the Fall: From the Bible | |
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| How the World Was Made and the Origin of Disease and Medicine: From the Sacred Storytelling of the Cherokee | |
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| The Origin and Fate of the Universe | |
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| The Origin of the Species | |
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| Yali's Question | |
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| What Is the Nature of Reality? | |
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| The Myth of the Cave | |
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| The Way of the Universe | |
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| The Nature of Reality | |
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| On the Nature of Things | |
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| The Monadology | |
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| An Introduction to Metaphsics | |
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| The True Features of Reality | |
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| The Politics of Reality | |
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| Knowledge and Truth | |
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| How Do We Know What We Know? | |
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| Meditations on the Nature of Knowledge | |
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| The Source of Our Knowledge | |
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| Principles of Human Knowledge | |
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| The Fixation of Belief | |
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| Pragmatism's Conception of Truth | |
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| Methods and Modes of Knowing | |
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| Truth and Existence | |
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| Navajo Ways of Knowing | |
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| The Metaphysics of Oppression | |
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| Is Knowledge Really Attainable? | |
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| A Dialogue on Dogmatism and Truth: From the Buddhist Scriptures | |
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| The Identity of Contraries | |
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| Circles | |
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| Doubts Concerning the Possibility of Knowledge | |
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| The Elimination of Metaphysics | |
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| Situated Knowers | |
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| Ethics | |
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| How Do We Determine What We Ought to Do? | |
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| The Proper Function of Man and Its Relation to the Good Life | |
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| On Human Goodness | |
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| The Good Will and Morality | |
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| The Principle of Utility | |
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| The Sentiment of Solidarity as the Foundation of Ethics | |
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| Mysticism and Ethics in Hindu Thought | |
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| Compassion and the Reverence for Life | |
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| What Are Some Reasons for Questioning Traditional Values? | |
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| Relativism | |
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| Master Morality and Slave Morality | |
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| Mitakuye Oyasin: We Are All Related | |
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| The Land Ethic | |
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| In a Different Voice | |
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| Transvaluation of Values: The End of Phallic Morality | |
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| What Means This Freedom? | |
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| Politics | |
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| What Is the Basis of Our Obligations to Society? | |
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| Crito | |
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| The Social Contract | |
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| The Declaration of Independence | |
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| The Racial Contract | |
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| The Communist Manifesto | |
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| We Are Practical Revolutionaries | |
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| In Defense of Democracy | |
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| The Political Theory of Islam | |
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| Who Is Your Mother? Red Roots of White Feminism | |
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| Where Do Our Obligations to Society End? | |
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| On Liberty | |
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| Principles of Nonviolence | |
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| Letter from Birmingham Jail | |
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| Power and Racism | |
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| Feminism: A Transformational Politic | |
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| Socialist Feminism: Our Bridge to Freedom | |
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| On the Duty of Civil Disobedience | |
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| Anarchism: What It Really Stands For | |
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| Religion | |
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| What Is the Nature of Religious Belief? | |
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| Confessions on the Nature of God | |
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| The Powers of the Bison and the Elk | |
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| Whether God Exists | |
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| A Panegyric upon Abraham | |
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| I and Thou | |
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| Involvement in the Liberation Process | |
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| Witchcraft and Women's Culture | |
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| Is Religious Belief Beneficial or Harmful? | |
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| The Will to Believe | |
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| Myth and Society | |
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| Why Women Need the Goddess | |
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| Religion and Science | |
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| How Not to Compare African Thought with Western Thought | |
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| Theology and Falsification | |
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| Why I Am a Pagan | |
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| Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization? | |
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| Glossary | |