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Voices of wisdom: a multicultural philosophy reader /

By [edited by] Gary E. Kessler.

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Publisher
Wadsworth,
ISBN
0534605702
Language
english
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PDF
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44 MB (46345389 bytes)
Edition
5
Pages
xv, 570 p. ;\588
Time added
2021-11-15 02:01:40

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(Title) Contents Preface Part 1: Introduction 1. What Is Philosophy? 1.1 A Definition of Philosophy 1.2 What Is Rationality? 1.3 Why Study Multicultural Philosophy? JOSEPH PRABHU The Clash or Dialogue of Civilizations? 1.4 Does Philosophy Bake Bread? BERTRAND RUSSELL On the Value of Philosophy 1.5 Reading Philosophy Part 2: Ethics 2. How Should One Live? 2.1 Introduction 2.2 The Buddha and the Middle Way THE BUDDHA The Four Noble Truths WALPOLA RAHULA The Fourth Noble Truth 2.3 Confucius and the Life of Virtue D. C. LAU Confucius and Moral Character 2.4 Socrates on Living the Examined Life PLATO The Apology 2.5 Aristotle on Happiness and the Life of Moderation ARISTOTLE Nicomachean Ethics 2.6 The Song of God Bhagavad-Gita 2.7 Does Life Have Meaning? DANIEL KOLAK and RAYMOND MARTIN Meaning 3. How Can I Know What Is Right? 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Kant and the Categorical Imperative IMMANUEL KANT Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals 3.3 Utilitarianism JOHN STUART MILL What Utilitarianism Is 3.4 Revaluation of Values FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Beyond Good and Evil FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE On the Genealogy of Morality 3.5 Care versus Rights JOY KROEGER-MAPPES The Ethic of Care vis-a-vis the Ethic of Rights 3.6 Moral Relativism DAVID WONG Relativism 4. What Makes a Society Just? 4.1 Introduction 4.2 God and Justice MAJID KHADDURI The Islamic Conception of Justice 4.3 Capitalism and Exploitation KARL MARX and FRIEDRICH ENGELS Manifesto of the Communist Party 4.4 The Original Position JOHN RAWLS A Theory of Justice 4.5 Our Obligation to the State PLATO Crito 4.6 Civil Disobedience MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Letter from Birmingham Jail 4.7 Sovereignty and Justice: An Indigenist’s Viewpoint WARD CHURCHILL Perversions of Justice 5. Is Justice Possible? 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Universal Human Rights RENE TRUJILLO Human Rights in the “Age of Discovery” United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights 5.3 Racism and Feminism bell hooks Ain’t Ia Woman 5.4 Globalization and Justice BENJAMIN R. BARBER Jihad vs. McWorld 5.5 Terrorism and Morality BAT-AMI BAR ON Why Terrorism Is Morally Problematic 5.6 Justice and the Land ALDO LEOPOLD The Land Ethic Part 3: Epistemology 6. Is Knowledge Possible? 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Sufi Mysticism AL-GHAZALI Deliverance from Error 6.3 Is Certainty Possible? RENE DESCARTES Meditations I and II 6.4 Empiricism and Limited Skepticism DAVID HUME An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding 6.5 Should We Believe Beyond the Evidence? WILLIAM K. CLIFFORD The Ethics of Belief WILLIAM JAMES The Will to Believe 6.6 Classical Indian Epistemology D. M. DATTA Knowledge and the Methods of Knowledge 6.7 Afrocentric Feminist Epistemology PATRICIA HILL COLLINS Toward an Afrocentric Feminist Epistemology 7. Does Science Tell Us the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth? 7.1 Introduction 7.2 The Growth of Scientific Knowledge KARL POPPER Conjectures and Refutations 7.3 Scientific Revolutions THOMAS S. KUHN The Structure of Scientific Revolutions 7.4 Feminism and Science ELIZABETH ANDERSON Knowledge, Human Interests, and Objectivity in Feminist Epistemology 7.5 Japanese Views of Western Science THOMAS P. KASULIS Sushi, Science, and Spirituality 7.6 Science and Traditional Thought KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH Old Gods, New Worlds Part 4: Metaphysics 8. What Is Really Real? 8.1 Introduction 8.2 The Dao LAOZI Dao De Jing 8.3 Platonic Dualism PLATO The Republic 8.4 Nondualism SHANKARA The Crest-Jewel of Discrimination 8.5 Subjective Idealism GEORGE BERKELEY The Principles of Human Knowledge 8.6 Pre-Columbian Cosmologies JORGE VALADEZ Pre-Columbian Philosophical Perspectives 8.7 So What Is Real? JORGE LUIS BORGES The Circular Ruins 9. Are We Free Or Determined? 9.1 Introduction 9.2 We Are Determined LAURA WADDELL EKSTROM Arguments for Incompatibilism 9.3 We Are Free JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Existentialism 9.4 Karma and Freedom SARVEPALLI RADHAKRISHNAN Karma and Freedom 9.5 We Are Both Free and Determined RAYMOND M. SMULLYAN Is God a Taoist? 10. What Am I? 10.1 Introduction 10.2 You Are Your Mind RENE DESCARTES Meditation VI 10.3 You Are an Embodied Self EVE BROWNING COLE Body, Mind, and Gender 10.4 You Are a Computing Machine BRUCE H. HINRICHS Computing the Mind 10.5 You Are Not a Machine JOHN SEARLE Can Computers Think? 11. Who Am I? 11.1 Introduction 11.2 There Is No Self False Doctrines about the Soul The Simile of the Chariot 11.3 Down with the Ego DEREK PARFIT Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons 11.4 Where Am I? DANIEL DENNETT Brainstorms 11.5 Social Identity GLORIA ANZALDUA How to Tame a Wild Tongue 11.6 Gender Identity DEIRDRE (DONALD) N. MCCLOSKEY Crossing 12. Is There a God? 12.1 Introduction 12.2 Arguments for God’s Existence ST. THOMAS AQUINAS The Five Ways WILLIAM CRAIG The Kalam Argument from Islam GUNAPALA DHARMASIRI Problems with the Cosmological Argument 12.3 Hinduism and Science P. VENUGOPALA RAO Science and Dharma 12.4 Creationism vs. Evolution RICHARD DAWKINS The Blind Watchmaker 12.5 The Mystery of Evil LOUIS P. POJMAN The Problem of Evil 12.6 The Gender of God MARY DALY Beyond God the Father 12.7 Are All Religions True? JOHN B. COBB, JR. Beyond Pluralism Appendix I: Glossary Appendix II: Pronunciation Guides

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