
Voices of Wisdom A Multicultural Philosophy Reader
by Kessler, Gary E.-
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Summary
Table of Contents
Preface | |
Introduction | |
What is Philosophy? | |
A Definition of Philosophy | |
What Is Rationality? | |
Does Philosophy Bake Bread? | |
Bertrand Russell: On the Value of Philosophy | |
Who Are the Philosophers? | |
Christopher Phillips: Socrates CafT | |
Reading Philosophy | |
Value Theory (Axiology) | |
Ethics, Social, and Political Philosophy | |
How Should One Live? Introduction | |
The Buddha and the Middle Way | |
The Buddha: The Four Noble Truths | |
Walpola Rahula: The Fourth Noble Truth | |
Confucius and the Life of Virtue | |
D.C. Lau: Confucius and Moral Character | |
Socrates on Living the Examined Life | |
Plato: The Apology | |
Aristotle on Happiness and the Life of Moderation | |
Aristotle: Nichomachean Ethics | |
The Song of God Bhagavad-Gita | |
The Virtue of Selfishness | |
Ayn Rand: The Ethics of Emergencies | |
How Can I Know What is Right? | |
Introduction | |
Kant and the Categorical Imperative | |
Immanuel Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals | |
Utilitarianism | |
John Stuart Mill: What Utilitarianism Is | |
Revaluation of Values | |
Friedrich Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil | |
Friedrich Nietzsche: On the Genealogy of Morality | |
The Ethic of Cares | |
Nel Noddings: Caring | |
Moral Relativism | |
David Wong: Relativism | |
What Makes a Society Just? | |
Introduction | |
God and Justice | |
Khaled Abou El Fadl: Islam and Democracy | |
Capitalism and Exploitation | |
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Manifesto of the Communist Party | |
The Original Position | |
John Rawls: A Theory of Justice | |
Our Obligation to the State | |
Plato: Crito | |
Civil Disobedience | |
Letter from Birmingham Jail | |
God is Red | |
Sacred Places and Moral Responsibility | |
Is Justice for all Possible? | |
Introduction | |
Sexism, Racism, and Homophobia | |
Bell hooks: Ain't I a Woman | |
Cornel West: Race Matters | |
Homophobia as a Weapon of Sexism | |
Globalization and Justice | |
One World: The Ethics of Globalization | |
Terrorism and Morality | |
Bat-Ami Bar On: Why Terrorism Is Morally Problematic | |
Philosophy in A Time of Terror | |
Dialgoues with Jnrgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida | |
Fundamentalism and Terror | |
Autoimmunity: Real and Symbolic Suicides | |
Global Warming | |
Apollo's Fire | |
Animal Rights | |
The Case for Animal Rights | |
Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art | |
What is Aesthetic Value? Introduction | |
Art As Experience | |
Having an Experience | |
Women and Art | |
Gendered Concepts | |
Zen Culture | |
The Tea Ceremony | |
The End of Art and the Citizen Artist | |
After the End of Art | |
The Artist as Citizen | |
Epistemology | |
Is Knowledge Possible? | |
Introduction | |
Sufi Mysticism | |
Deliverance from Error | |
Is Certainty Possible? RenT Descartes: Meditations I and II | |
Empiricism and Limited Skepticism | |
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding | |
Should We Believe Beyond the Evidence? | |
The Ethics of Belief | |
The Will to Believe | |
Classical Indian Epistemology | |
Knowledge and Reality | |
Feminist Epistemology | |
Knowledge and Subjectivity | |
Does Science Tell Us the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth? | |
Introduction | |
How Do We Come to Belief? | |
The Fixation of Beliefs | |
The Growth of Scientific Knowledge | |
Conjectures and Refutations | |
Scientific Revolutions | |
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions | |
Science and Traditional Thought | |
Old Gods, New Worlds | |
The Will to Truth | |
The Discourse on Language | |
Truth and Power | |
Metaphysics | |
What is Really Real? | |
Introduction | |
The Dao | |
Dao De Jing | |
Platonic Dualism | |
The Republic | |
Nondualism | |
The Crest-Jewel of Discrimination | |
Subjective Idealism | |
The Principles of Human Knowledge | |
Pre-Columbian Cosmologies | |
Pre-Columbian Philosophica | |
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