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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Philosophy; 3rd Edition

by: Stevenson, Ph.D., Jay

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Philosophy; 3rd Edition

by: Stevenson, Ph.D., Jay

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Edition: 3rd
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Copyright: 06/07/2005
Publisher: DK Publishing, Inc.
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Summary

You're no idiot, of course. You know the difference between Confucius and confusion, and that Plato isn't something kids play with. But when it comes to telling your Hegel from your Schegel or phenomenology from existentialism, things get a little more complicated.

Part 1: The Nuts and Bolts of Philosophy

(36)

The Big Picture

(6)

Why Ask Why?

(1)

You Are What You Think

(1)

A Slice of Life

(1)

Is You Ism or Is You Ain't My Philosophy?

(1)

How the Parts Fit Together

(2)

Being There

(8)

The Myth-Math of Existence

(1)

To Order Is to Understand

(1)

Enter Metaphysics

(1)

Is There a God?

(2)

Perfection Is Truth

(1)

Being Leads to Knowing

(1)

Being and Thinking

(4)

Dualism vs. Materialism

(3)

What There Is to Know About Knowing

(12)

A Time of Crisis

(1)

Descartes's Reason

(1)

Look Ma, No Senses!

(1)

Getting Testy

(1)

Can We Get There from Here?

(3)

Going Down: Deduction

(1)

Going Up: Induction

(1)

Double-Checking Your Hypothesis

(1)

The Ping-Pong Ball Called Dialectic

(6)

Pro or Con?

(1)

Both Sides Now

(1)

Can He or Kant He? Combining Reason and Experience

(1)

Can History Think?

(1)

Marx on the Mind

(3)

How to Act

(8)

Me vs. Us

(2)

Good Harmony

(1)

The ``We'' Culture

(1)

Me First

(1)

Why I'm So Important

(3)

Religion's Part in Individualism

(1)

Truth and Me

(1)

Science and Me

(1)

Capitalism and Me

(1)

Philosopher See, Philosopher Do

(2)

Part 2: Ancient and Medieval Philosophy

(62)

Golden Oldies

(12)

It's Not About Us

(3)

Earth, Wind, and Fire

(1)

The Math and Music Man

(1)

Who's a Monkey's Uncle?

(1)

Out of His Senses

(1)

Virtue's in the Eye of the Beholder

(4)

It's All Relative

(1)

Double Standard

(1)

What's Fair Is Fair---or Is It?

(1)

Politics as Usual

(1)

Knowledge Is Virtue

(4)

Socrates, a Pain in the Protagoras

(1)

Rebuilding Knowledge

(3)

The Philosopher King

(10)

Politics' Loss Was Philosophy's Gain

(1)

Philosophy Through Dialogue

(1)

What's the Big Idea?

(1)

Finding the Ideal

(1)

Understanding the Ideal World

(4)

It's Logical

(1)

The Light at the End of the Tunnel

(2)

Remembering Truth

(1)

Immortal Souls

(1)

The True Sciences

(1)

Living Up to Perfection

(3)

The Republic: Plato's Paradise

(1)

Rulers, Soldiers, and Tradespeople

(1)

Better Than Democracy or Tyranny

(1)

A Sense of Purpose

(12)

Bad Form

(1)

Change Has Purpose

(2)

Changing Beliefs About Change

(1)

Aristotle vs. Darwin

(1)

Born to Think

(1)

Natural Soul

(1)

For a Good Cause

(1)

Why It Happened

(1)

Aristotle's Mental Breakdown

(2)

Aristotle's Categories

(1)

The Golden Mean

(1)

A Legacy Up for Grabs

(3)

Ancient Hardheads

(12)

Who Cares?

(2)

It's All in the Mind

(1)

People Are Scum

(1)

A Twist on Fate

(1)

Don't Worry, Be Happy

(2)

Why Suffer?

(1)

The Gods Make Us Crazy

(1)

It's All in the Atoms

(2)

Born Free

(1)

Not Their Scene

(1)

Who Knows?

(5)

Are You Hallucinating?

(1)

Curb Your Dogma

(1)

The Seeds of Doubt

(1)

Alma Maters

(3)

God and Knowledge

(14)

Faith Meets Reason

(2)

God Thinks of Everything

(1)

Words Get in the Way

(1)

The Hebrew Bible Goes Greek

(1)

Getting a Read on Things

(2)

If It's Written Down, It Must Be Important

(1)

Time Warp

(1)

It All Adds Up to One

(2)

A Private Line to God

(1)

You Can't Blame God

(1)

The Reason for Evil

(1)

Getting With It, or Getting in the Way

(1)

Philosophy Goes to School

(2)

Aristotle Goes Islamic

(1)

Proving God Exists

(1)

Logic Chopping

(5)

A Real Controversy

(1)

Sidling Up to the Big Questions

(1)

Shaving Explanations

(3)

Part 3: Eastern Philosophy

(32)

Far Eastern Philosophy

101

(10)

A Gentleman and a Scholar

102

(2)

We're All in This Together

102

(1)

Leading by Example

103

(1)

Governing Wise-Li

104

(1)

Just a Little Respect

104

(1)

Working with Tradition

104

(1)

A Good Mind-Set

105

(1)

Respecting What You Do

105

(1)

Confucius vs. Confusion

106

(1)

Philosophy for the Well En-Tao'd

106

(5)

Going With the Flow

107

(1)

Worry Less, Live Longer

108

(1)

The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same

108

(1)

Philosophy or Fortune-Telling?

109

(2)

Indian Philosophy

111

(10)

Above the Suffering

112

(2)

Karma Chameleons

112

(1)

Hindu Castes

113

(1)

Practice Makes Perfect

114

(1)

Hindu Duty

114

(1)

Is Karma a Good Idea?

114

(1)

The Awakened One

115

(3)

Freeing the Self from Itself

116

(1)

The Eightfold Path Unfolded

117

(1)

Budding Buddhism

117

(1)

Fighting with Peace

118

(3)

You've Got to Admire His Moksa

118

(3)

Middle Eastern Religious Philosophy

121

(10)

One God

122

(4)

Who's Got the Power?

122

(1)

Somebody Up There Likes Me

123

(1)

By the Book

123

(1)

Sharing the Wrath

123

(1)

Evil Ways

123

(1)

Explaining Evil Under a Just God

124

(1)

The End Is Near

125

(1)

History Is Us

126

(1)

You Always Hurt the Ones You Love

126

(1)

Brand X: Newer, Bigger, Brighter

127

(1)

Come Again?

127

(1)

Feeling Their Pain

127

(1)

The Latest Word

128

(3)

The Five Pillars of Islam

128

(1)

One God, Many Points of View

129

(2)

Part 4: Making Progress

131

(78)

People People (Renaissance Humanism)

133

(10)

Philosophy Reborn

134

(1)

Learned Ignorance

135

(1)

Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

135

(1)

We Are the World

136

(2)

Change Across the Board

137

(1)

Believing in Belief

138

(1)

Skepticism

138

(1)

Gimme That Old-Time Religion

138

(1)

Everybody Plays the Fool

139

(1)

Politics Is Torture

139

(2)

Prince Not Charming

140

(1)

Doubting Fair Play

140

(1)

Try, Try Again

141

(2)

Science Rises from the Mud

143

(10)

Bringing Home the Bacon

144

(2)

A Man with a Plan

144

(1)

Idolizing Error

145

(1)

Don't Believe Everything You Read

145

(1)

Science and Spirit

146

(2)

It's All in the Mind

146

(1)

Mind-Body Split

147

(1)

A Passionate Affair

147

(1)

Keeping Government in Mind

148

(1)

A Whale of a Worldview

148

(3)

Not in the Spirit

148

(1)

Thinking Machines

149

(1)

Weak Minds, Strong Ruler

150

(1)

Gentlemen Don't Fight

150

(1)

Eye of Newton

151

(2)

Formulas for Everything

151

(1)

Shedding New Light on Color

152

(1)

Men and Women of Substance

153

(12)

Being in the Know

154

(1)

God and Nature Are Us

154

(3)

Spinoza a la Mode

155

(1)

Where There's a Will, There's a Way

156

(1)

The Truth Will Set You Free

156

(1)

A Man of Many Monads

157

(2)

Many Views, One Picture

157

(1)

What Happens to You Is Part of You

158

(1)

The World Is a Math Problem

158

(1)

A Man of Principles

159

(1)

It's Only Logical

159

(1)

Taking a Chance on Substance

159

(6)

Pushing the Limits

160

(1)

The Matter with Cavendish

160

(1)

It's All Mental

161

(1)

Knowledge in Conflict

161

(1)

Imagining Philosophy

162

(3)

Learning by Observing

165

(12)

The Sun Never Sets on British Empiricism

166

(2)

Observant Brits

166

(1)

A Locke on Understanding

166

(1)

Your Mind Was a Blank

167

(1)

Is Knowledge Accidental?

168

(1)

Taking God Out of Government

168

(2)

Divine Right Bites the Dust

168

(1)

Back to Nature

169

(1)

My Work, My Stuff

169

(1)

Society's Dotted Line

170

(1)

A Better Idea

170

(2)

If a Tree Falls in the Forest

171

(1)

Soul Exceptions

172

(1)

Hume-an Nature

172

(5)

Blinded with Science

172

(1)

Ideas Associated

173

(1)

Hume's Fork

173

(1)

Inner Virtue

174

(1)

Is, Isn't, Ought

175

(2)

Light on the Subject

177

(8)

French Lights

178

(1)

A New Look at Laws

178

(2)

Building from the Bottom Up

179

(1)

Taking Power Apart

179

(1)

The New God of Reason

180

(1)

Keeping Freedom and Belief

180

(1)

It's Still Ticking!

180

(1)

The Enlightenment Speaks Volumes

181

(1)

A Feel for Philosophy

182

(3)

Civilized People Are Apple Polishers

182

(1)

Inventing Virtue and Vice

183

(1)

Learning to Be Natural

183

(2)

Wheeling and Idealing

185

(12)

Big Idealists

186

(1)

Ideal-List

186

(1)

A Falling Out over Unity

186

(1)

Not Too Soft, Not Too Crunchy

187

(3)

Judging Reality by Its Cover

187

(1)

The Way the Cookie Crumbles

188

(1)

Concepts Before Experience

188

(1)

A New Copernicus

189

(1)

We're All in This Together

189

(1)

Hegel Can Do What Immanuel Kant

190

(4)

Philosophy Goes Down in History

191

(1)

Alien Life Forms

192

(1)

Slaves to Recognition

192

(1)

Different Slants on Hegel

193

(1)

Will Is the Way

194

(3)

A Will to Know

194

(1)

Not a Pretty Picture

195

(2)

Ideas of Freedom

197

(12)

Determine One, Get One Free

198

(1)

Freedom Goes Through the Mill

199

(1)

It All Comes Down to Happiness

199

(1)

Poetry vs. Pushpin

199

(1)

Freedom for Women

200

(1)

Determined to Be Free

200

(3)

The Rat Race

201

(1)

We Can't Go on Like This

201

(1)

Factory-Sealed Thinking

202

(1)

Freedom Is in Meaning

203

(2)

Trapped in Time

203

(1)

Just Do It

204

(1)

It's a Poet! It's a Philosopher! No, It's Superman!

205

(4)

Me and My Error

205

(1)

You Ain't Herd Nothing Yet

206

(1)

Deja Vu All over Again

207

(2)

Part 5: Modern Philosophy

209

(60)

New Fields of Thought: Psych, Sosh, and Anthro

211

(10)

Socializing Science

212

(1)

A New Way of Thinking

213

(2)

Secret Desires

213

(1)

Rain on the Parade

213

(1)

Tragic Beginnings

214

(1)

Your Problem Is Obvious

215

(1)

Jung at Heart

215

(1)

Why We All Work Too Hard

216

(1)

Mind over Money

216

(1)

God and Money

217

(1)

It's All Culture

217

(4)

Society's Big Mind

218

(1)

Patterns and Purposes

218

(3)

Works for Me

221

(10)

Working Knowledge

222

(2)

Peirce-ing Intellect

222

(1)

Where the Action Is

223

(1)

Need to Know

223

(1)

More Uses

224

(2)

Multitasking

224

(1)

Useful to Whom?

225

(1)

Not Hughie, Not Louie, but Dewey

226

(1)

Less Certain, More Pragmatic

226

(1)

Coping Strategy

226

(1)

Made in America

227

(4)

Making a Way

227

(1)

Bridging the Gap

228

(3)

The New Logic

231

(10)

Eminently Logical

232

(2)

Math's Deeper Meaning

232

(1)

Math Spoken Here

232

(2)

A Proposition You Can't Refuse

234

(1)

Inside Outside

234

(1)

Where Does Reality Fit In?

234

(2)

Logic Gets Real

235

(1)

Logic Spaces Out

235

(1)

Circular Logic

236

(1)

Second Thoughts

236

(1)

We Make the Rules

236

(1)

Meaning Is Everybody's Business

237

(1)

Fork in the Road

237

(4)

Philosophy Chooses Up Sides

238

(1)

It's All in How You Say It

238

(1)

You Can't Reason Your Way out of This

239

(2)

Let's Get Critical

241

(8)

Critical Condition

242

(4)

Exceeding Their Marx

242

(1)

Pillars of Oppression

243

(1)

Pieces of the Plan

244

(1)

Culture Vultures

244

(1)

Slaves to Shopping

245

(1)

Song and Dance

245

(1)

Blinded by the Enlightenment

246

(1)

Slaves to the Machine

246

(1)

War Machine

247

(1)

Cutting Both Ways

247

(2)

To Be or Not To Be

249

(10)

A Phenomenal Philosophy

250

(2)

Reality Meets Awareness

250

(1)

Intent on Thinking

251

(1)

The Intentions of Science

251

(1)

Bring on the Brackets

252

(1)

Painting with Your Brain

252

(1)

An Anti-Social Philosophy?

253

(1)

Let It Be

253

(2)

Time Traveling

254

(1)

Knowing What's What

254

(1)

The Real McCoy

255

(1)

Being Absurd

255

(4)

Too Free for Our Own Good

256

(1)

Heroic Existers

256

(1)

You Are What You Do

256

(3)

Structuring New Ideas

259

(10)

You Can't Beat the System

260

(3)

``Cat'' Might as Well Be ``Phthaloogazop''

260

(1)

History Is Now

261

(1)

Language on Parole

262

(1)

Them's Fightin' Words

262

(1)

Structure Goes Formal

263

(2)

The Structure of Purpose

263

(1)

Seeing Structure in 3D

264

(1)

At a Loss for Words

265

(1)

Culture Is All Talk

265

(4)

Meaning Gets Organized

265

(1)

Kin to Language

266

(1)

There's a Mind in Here Somewhere

266

(3)

Part 6: Knowledge Now

269

(68)

Philosophy After the Fact

271

(12)

Philosophy Eats Itself

272

(3)

Someone Who Dug Philosophy

272

(1)

What You Know Can Hurt You

272

(1)

Power + Knowledge = Padded Cell

273

(1)

Tell Me an Other

274

(1)

Great Minds Think Alike

274

(1)

Practicing What You Preach

275

(1)

Breaking Up the Structure

275

(1)

Nowhere Man

275

(2)

Meaning Turns Up Missing

276

(1)

Self-Centered Language

276

(1)

Vive la Differance

277

(1)

Beware of Philosophy

277

(1)

Psyching Yourself Out

278

(5)

Your Ego Is Your Enemy

278

(1)

Mirror, Mirror

279

(1)

Rattling the Chains

280

(1)

A Formula for Excess Meaning

280

(3)

Pomo Sapience

283

(10)

Are We There Yet?

284

(3)

Wrinkles in Time

284

(1)

How Big Was Modernism?

285

(1)

Scoping the Debates

286

(1)

Francois Lyotard: Not Just a Man in Tights

287

(1)

Knowledge Turns to IT

287

(1)

New Slants for Knowing

287

(1)

To Make a Grand Narrative Short

288

(1)

Rethinking Culture

288

(2)

Retro Chic

289

(1)

Money Changes Everything

290

(1)

Post-Modernism Lightens Up

290

(3)

The Side-Show

291

(1)

Does Society Need Philosophy?

291

(1)

Same Concepts, Different Conclusions

291

(1)

Smug or Sensible?

292

(1)

Women Get Wise

293

(10)

Woman Kinds

294

(2)

Forms of Feminism

294

(1)

Imported from France

295

(1)

Simone Says, ``Take a Big Step Forward''

296

(1)

Nature vs. Nurture

296

(1)

A Lonely Leader

297

(1)

Different, but the Same

297

(1)

Off the Mommy Track

298

(1)

Labor of Love

298

(1)

Writing the Wrongs

298

(1)

Class Acts

299

(4)

Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows

299

(1)

God Gets a Sex Change

300

(1)

hooks into Race and Sex

301

(1)

Butler Did It

301

(2)

The Shift Is On

303

(8)

Shifty Characters

304

(2)

How the Other Half Thinks

304

(1)

Make Yourself a Better World

305

(1)

A One-derful World

306

(1)

Einstein-Fu

306

(1)

The Metaphysical Kitchen Sink

307

(1)

Got Change for a One?

307

(1)

Keep the Spirit Clean

307

(1)

Bandwagon Earth

308

(1)

Cash Consciousness

308

(2)

Lifting Your Spiritual Bootstraps

309

(1)

No Business Like Know Business

309

(1)

What's Ahead?

310

(1)

Working the System

311

(26)

A New Tree Built Out of Old Branches

312

(2)

To Think'm Is to Noam

312

(1)

The Mind Computes

313

(1)

Moving the Cogs

314

(2)

I Think, Therefore I Am a Machine

314

(1)

Mental Blocks

315

(1)

A New Hook-Up

316

(2)

The Latest Models

316

(1)

Artificial Aptitude

317

(1)

Developing a Complex

318

(5)

A Butterfly in the System

318

(1)

Virtual Complexity

319

(1)

Now We Know Everything! (Except Whether We're Right)

320

(1)

Staying Organized

320

(3)

Appendixes

A Words for the Wise

323

(12)

B Further Reading: More Food for Thought

335

(2)

Index

337

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