Readings from the Roots of Wisdom A Multicultural Reader
by Mitchell, Helen BussEdition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-03-05
Publisher(s): Cengage Learning
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Summary
The anthology is a collection of readings from a wide range of philosophical and cultural perspectives. Interesting and reader-friendly selections were purposely selected so as to be accessible to a wide range of readers. While designed to accompany Mitchell's ROOTS OF WISDOM, it can also be used with any other introductory text.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Student Introduction | |
| PART I: METAPHYSICS | |
| 1. Why Philosophy? Plato, Book VIII of the Republic | |
| Aristophanes, Clouds | |
| Innocent Onyewuenyi, Is There an African Philosophy? Rigoberta Menchú, I Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala | |
| The Tao Te Ching, Chapters 1, 17, 22, 34, 48, and 79. 2 | |
| Reality and Being | |
| Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan | |
| Edwin Abbot, Flatland | |
| Lancinay Keita, The African Philosophical Tradition | |
| Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland | |
| Buddhist Scriptures, Lives of the Buddha | |
| 3. Human Nature | |
| Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism as a Humanism | |
| The Bible, Chapters 1 and 2 of Genesis | |
| Elizabeth V | |
| Spelman, Aristotle and the Politicization of the Soul | |
| Ifeanyi A | |
| Menkiti, Person and Community in Traditional African Thought | |
| James P | |
| Hogan, Code of the Life Maker | |
| 4. Philosophy and God | |
| Augustine of Hippo, The City of God | |
| Benjamin Ewuku Oguah, African and Western Philosophy: A Comparative Study | |
| al-Ghazali, The Incoherence of the Philosophers | |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland | |
| Herman Hesse, Siddhartha | |
| PART II: EPISTEMOLOGY | |
| 5. Knowledge and the Mind | |
| Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method | |
| Alison M | |
| Jaggar, Love and Knowledge: Emotion in Feminist Epistemology | |
| Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, La Respuesta (The Response) | |
| Moses Maimonides, The Guide of the Perplexed | |
| Shunryu Suzuki, Beyond Consciousness | |
| 6. The Search for Truth | |
| David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion | |
| Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance | |
| N | |
| Scott Momaday, The Man Made of Words | |
| S | |
| Mwanahewa, African Logical Heritage and Contemporary Life | |
| Hildegard of Bingen, Letters to Bernard of Clairvaux and the Mainz Prelates | |
| 7. Aesthetic Experience | |
| Plato, Book X of The Republic | |
| Aristotle, Poetics [6,8,9,14] | |
| Eugen Herrigel, Zen and the Art of Archery | |
| Chinua Achebe, Arrow of God | |
| Susanne K | |
| Langer, The Cultural Importance of Art | |
| PART III: AXIOLOGY | |
| 8. Political Philosophy | |
| John Locke, Treatise of Civil Government | |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls | |
| Bart Kosko, The Fuzzy Social Contract | |
| Malcolm X, The Speeches of Malcolm X at Harvard | |
| Nicholas D | |
| Kristof, The End of the Golden Road | |
| 9. Social Philosophy | |
| John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism | |
| Ignacio EllacurÃa, S | |
| Human Rights in a Divided Society | |
| Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women | |
| Audre Lorde, Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining the Difference | |
| Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game | |
| 10. Ethics | |
| Immanual Kant, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Ethics | |
| Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera | |
| Rita Manning, Speaking from the Heart | |
| Kwasi Wiredu, The Moral Foundations of an African Culture | |
| Benjamin Hoff, The Te of Piglet |
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