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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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| Why Study Multicultural Philosophy? | |
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| "The Clash or Dialogue of Civilizations?" | |
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| Does Philosophy Bake Bread? | |
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| "On the Value of Philosophy." | |
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| Reading Philosophy | |
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| Ethics | |
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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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| Buddha: "The Four Noble Truths." | |
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| "The Fourth Noble Truth." | |
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| Confucius and the Life of Virtue | |
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| "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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| Does Life Have Meaning? | |
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| "The Ethics of Emergencies." | |
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| How Can I Know What Is Right? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Categorical Imperative | |
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| Immanuel Kant: "Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals." | |
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| Utilitarianism | |
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| "What Utilitarianism Is." | |
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| Revaluation of Values | |
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| Friedrich Nietzsche: "Beyond Good and Evil and On the Genealogy of Morality." | |
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| Care versus Rights | |
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| "The Ethic of Care vis-?-vis the Ethic of Rights." | |
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| Moral Relativism | |
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| "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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| "The Islamic Conception of Justice." | |
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| Capitalism and Exploitation | |
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| "Manifesto of the Communist Party." | |
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| The Original Position | |
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| "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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| Sovereignty and Justice: An Indigenist''s Viewpoint | |
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| "Perversions of Justice." | |
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| Is Justice for All Possible? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Universal Human Rights | |
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| Ren? Trujillo: "Human Rights in the "Age of Discovery" | |
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| "United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights | |
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| bell hooks: "Ain''t I a Woman." | |
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| Globalization and Justice | |
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| Barber: "Jihad vs. McWorld." | |
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| Terrorism and Morality | |
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| Bat-Ami Bar On: "Why Terrorism is Morally Problematic." | |
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| Justice and the Land | |
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| Aldo Leopold: "The Land Ethic." | |
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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? | |
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| Ren? 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 the Methods of Knowledge." | |
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| Afrocentric Feminist Epistemology | |
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| "Toward an Afrocentric Feminist Epistemology." | |
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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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| 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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| Feminism and Science | |
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| "Knowledge, Human Interests, and Objectivity in Feminist Epistemology." | |
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| Japanese Views of Western Science | |
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| "Sushi, Science, and Spirituality." | |
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| Science and Traditional Thought | |
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| "Old Gods, New Worlds." | |
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| Metaphysics | |
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| What Is Really Real? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Dao. Laozi: "Dao De Jing." | |
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| Platonic Dualism | |
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| Plato: "The Republic." | |
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| Nondualism | |
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| Shankara: "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 Philosophical Perspectives." | |
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| So What Is Real? Jorge Luis Borges: "The Circular Ruins." | |
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| Are We Free or Determined? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| We Are Determined | |
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| "Arguments for Incompatibilism." | |
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| We Are Free | |
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| "Existentialism." | |
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| Karma and Freedom | |
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| "Karma and Freedom." | |
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| We Are Both Free and Determined | |
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| "Is God a Taoist?" | |
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| What Am I? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| You Are Your Mind | |
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| Ren? Descartes: "Meditation VI." | |
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| You Are an Embodied Self | |
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| Eve Browning Cole: "Body, Mind, and Gender." | |
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| You are a Computing Machine | |
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| "Computing the Mind." | |
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| You are not a Computing Machine | |
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| "Can Computers Think?" | |
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| Who Am I? Introduction | |
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| There Is No Self | |
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| Buddha: "False Doctrines About the Soul and the Simile of the Chariot." | |
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| Down With the Ego | |
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| "Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons." | |
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| Where am I? | |
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| "Brainstorms." | |
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| Social Identity | |
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| "How to Tame a Wild Tongue." | |
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| Gender Identity | |
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| "Crossing." | |
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| Is There a God? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Arguments for God''s Existence | |
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| "The Five Ways." | |
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| "The Kalam Argument from Islam." | |
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| "Problems with the Cosmological Argument." | |
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| Hinduism and Science | |
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| "Science and Dharma." | |
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| Creation vs. Evolution | |
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| "The Blind Watchmaker." | |
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| The Mystery of Evil | |
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| "The Problem of Evil." | |
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| The Gender of God | |
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| "Beyond God the Father." | |
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| Are All Religions True? | |
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| "Beyond Pluralism." | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Pronunciation Guide | |