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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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Does Philosophy Bake Bread? | |
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Bertrand Russell: On the Value of Philosophy | |
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Who Are the Philosophers? | |
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Christopher Phillips: Socrates CafT | |
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Reading Philosophy | |
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Value Theory (Axiology) | |
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Ethics, Social, and Political Philosophy | |
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How Should One Live? 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: Nichomachean Ethics | |
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The Song of God Bhagavad-Gita | |
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The Virtue of Selfishness | |
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Ayn Rand: The Ethics of Emergencies | |
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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 Ethic of Cares | |
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Nel Noddings: Caring | |
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Moral Relativism | |
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David Wong: Relativism | |
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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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Letter from Birmingham Jail | |
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God is Red | |
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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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Homophobia as a Weapon of Sexism | |
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Globalization and Justice | |
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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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Dialgoues with Jnrgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida | |
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Fundamentalism and Terror | |
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Autoimmunity: Real and Symbolic Suicides | |
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Global Warming | |
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Apollo's Fire | |
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Animal Rights | |
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The Case for Animal Rights | |
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Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art | |
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What is Aesthetic Value? Introduction | |
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Art As Experience | |
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Having an Experience | |
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Women and Art | |
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Gendered Concepts | |
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Zen Culture | |
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The Tea Ceremony | |
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The End of Art and the Citizen Artist | |
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After the End of Art | |
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The Artist as Citizen | |
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Epistemology | |
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Is Knowledge Possible? | |
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Introduction | |
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Sufi Mysticism | |
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Deliverance from Error | |
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Is Certainty Possible? RenT Descartes: Meditations I and II | |
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Empiricism and Limited Skepticism | |
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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding | |
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Should We Believe Beyond the Evidence? | |
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The Ethics of Belief | |
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The Will to Believe | |
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Classical Indian Epistemology | |
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Knowledge and Reality | |
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Feminist Epistemology | |
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Knowledge and Subjectivity | |
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Does Science Tell Us the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth? | |
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Introduction | |
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How Do We Come to Belief? | |
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The Fixation of Beliefs | |
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The Growth of Scientific Knowledge | |
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Conjectures and Refutations | |
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Scientific Revolutions | |
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions | |
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Science and Traditional Thought | |
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Old Gods, New Worlds | |
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The Will to Truth | |
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The Discourse on Language | |
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Truth and Power | |
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Metaphysics | |
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What is Really Real? | |
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Introduction | |
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The Dao | |
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Dao De Jing | |
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Platonic Dualism | |
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The Republic | |
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Nondualism | |
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The Crest-Jewel of Discrimination | |
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Subjective Idealism | |
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The Principles of Human Knowledge | |
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Pre-Columbian Cosmologies | |
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Pre-Columbian Philosophica | |
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