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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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| Reading Philosophy | |
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| Does Philosophy Bake Bread? | |
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| BERTRAND RUSSELL: On the Value of Philosophy | |
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| Thinking and Writing Philosophically | |
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| A Little Logic | |
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| How to Write Philosophy | |
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| Value Theory (Axiology) | |
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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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| 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: Nicomachean Ethics | |
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| The Song of God | |
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| Bhagavad-Gita | |
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| What is the Meaning of Life [NEW] | |
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| SUSAN WOLF: Meaning in Life [NEW] | |
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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 Divine Command Theory[NEW] | |
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| AL-ASHARI The Theology of Al-Ashari: [NEW] | |
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| KAI NIELSEN Ethics without God [NEW] | |
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| The Ethics of Care | |
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| VIRGINIA HELD: Justice, Utility,and Care [NEW] | |
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| Moral Relativism [NEW] | |
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| LOUIS P | |
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| POJMAN: A Critique of Ethical Relativism [NEW] | |
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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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| MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: Letter from Birmingham Jail | |
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| God Is Red | |
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| VINE DELORIA, JR.: 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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| SUZANNE PHARR: Homophobia as a Weapon of Sexism | |
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| Illegal Immigration [NEW] | |
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| REGINALD WILLIAMS: A Case for Residency [NEW] | |
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| Globalization and Justice | |
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| PETER SINGER: 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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| J�GEN HABERMAS: Fundamentalism and Terror | |
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| SLAVOJ �I�EK: Violence [NEW] | |
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| What Is Aesthetic Value?Introduction | |
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| Epistemology | |
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| Is Knowledge Possible? | |
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| Does Science Tell Us the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth?Introduction | |
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| Metaphysics | |
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| What Is Really Real?Introduction | |