Fundamentals of Philosophy

Author:: H. Gene Blocker; David Stewart; James Petrik
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An accessible reader/text for beginning students of philosophy, this volume offers a broad scope of diverse classic and contemporary selections -- with a narrative and format that presents difficult issues and readings in a simplified but not condescending manner. The readings are grouped around major philosophic themes: logic, ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of religion, philosophy of art, and social and political philosophy. It also offers a selection of readings from Eastern philosophy.

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Publisher:: PEARSON
ISBN:: 9780205647620
Publication date:: August 2009
Additional format:: Contains Paperback and CD-ROM
Length:: 235mm
Width:: 178mm
Thickness:: 18mm
Weight:: 626g
Edition:: 7th Revised edition
Pages:: 528
Illustrations:: Illustrations, ports.

I. WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY? 1. The Activity of Philosophy. 2. Philosophy and Popular Culture READING: Stewart, Philosophical Themes in Popular Culture. 3. Philosophy's History. 4. Philosophy and the Examined Life. READING: Socrates, In Defense of Philosophy. Recent Developments in Philosophy. II. THINKING ABOUT THINKING (LOGIC). 5. The Life of Reason. 6. Argument Forms. 7. Induction and the Philosophy of Science. 8. Strategies for Philosophical Argument. READING: Thomas A. Shipka, Are You a Critical Thinker? Recent Developments in Logic. III. WHAT IS REAL? (METAPHYSICS). 9. Introduction to Metaphysics. 10. Appearance and Reality READING: Plato, The Republic 11. Materialism READING: Epicurus, First Principle of Materialism. 12. Idealism. READING: George Berkeley, Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous. 13. The Mind-Body Problem and Personal Identity READING: Alfred C. Lent, Surviving in a Different Body 14. Freedom and Determinism: The Metaphysics of Human Agency READING: Peter van Inwagen, The Moral Argument for Freedom Recent Developments in Metaphysics. IV. HOW DO WE KNOW? (EPISTEMOLOGY). 15. Introduction to Epistemology. 16. The Quest for Certainty. READING: Rene Descartes, Mediations. 17. Trust Your Senses. READING: David Hume, Skeptical Doubts Concerning the Operations of the Understanding. 18. A Compromise. READING: Immanuel Kant, Two Sources of Knowledge. Recent Developments in Epistemology. 19. Knowledge and Human Practices: The Pragmatist Tradition READING: William James: What Pragmatism Means Nathaniel Goldberg: Where Does Knowledge Come From? Quine, Davidson, and Traditional Epistemology Recent Developments in Epistemology V. WHAT OUGHT WE TO DO? (ETHICS). 20. Introduction to Ethical Reasoning. 21. The Morality of Self-Realization. READING: Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics. 22. Morality Depends on the Consequences. READING: John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism. 23. Morality Depends on Motives. READING: Immanuel Kant, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals. Recent Developments in Ethics. VI. PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION. 24. Introduction to Philosophy and Religion. 25. Religion and Life's Meaning. READING: Leo Tolstoy, A Confession. 26. Arguments for God's Existence: A Priori Arguments for God's Existence. READING: St. Anselm, Proslogion. 27. Arguments for God's Existence: A Posteriori Arguments for God's Existence. READINGS: St. Thomas Aquinas, The Five Ways. William Paley, Natural Theology. 28. The Problem of Evil. READING: James Petrik, Inscrutable Evil and an Infinite God. Recent Developments in Religion. VII. PHILOSOPHY OF ART (ESTHETICS). 29. Introduction to Philosophy of Art. 30. The Value of Art. READING: H. Gene Blocker, The Esthetic Attitude. 31. Art as Ideal. READING: Kenneth Clark, The Naked and the Nude. 32. Esthetics and Ideology. READING: Jennifer Jeffers, The Politics of Representation: The Role of the Gaze in Pornography. Recent Developments in Esthetics. VIII. SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. 33. Introduction to Social and Political Philosophy. 34. The Liberal, Secular State. READING: John Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration. 35. The Individual and the State. READING: John Stuart Mill, On Liberty. 36. Human Rights READING: H. Gene Blocker, Human Rights 37. Individual Happiness and Social Responsibility. READING: M. Andrew Holowchak, Happiness and Justice in Liberal Society: Autonomy as Political Integration. Recent Developments in Social and Political Philosophy. IX. EASTERN THOUGHT. 38. Philosophy East and West. 39. Confucian Theories of Human Nature. READINGS: Mencius, The Book of Mencius
Xun Zi, The Nature of Man is Evil
Dong Zhongshu, Man's Nature is Neither Good Nor Evil. 40. Hindu Theories of Monism and Pluralism. READINGS: Shankara, Ramanuja, and Madhva commentary on The Vedanta Sutras. 41. Buddhist Theory of Emptiness. READING: Nagarjuna, Seventy Verses on Emptiness Recent Developments in Eastern Thought. Glossary of Terms. Index.