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Engaging and compelling on every page, Velasquez’s text is a fascinating exploration of philosophy that helps readers appreciate how the subject is relevant to day-to-day life and our larger social world. This trusted book combines clear prose and primary source readings to take readers on a meaningful exploration of a range of philosophical topics, such as human nature, reality, truth, ethics, the meaning of life, diversity, and social/political philosophy.
Philosophy: A Text With Readings, Eleventh Edition, is the popular text/reader that combines clear, lively prose and nontechnical primary sources to provide an accessible and comprehensive introduction to philosophy. Manuel Velasquez masterfully relates the subject to your students’ own self understanding and illustrates how philosophy is relevant to their personal lives as well as to our larger social world.
Philosophy: A Text With Readings, Eleventh Edition, covers a wide range of topics—such as human nature, reality, truth, ethics, the meaning of life, diversity, and social/political philosophy—and is organized to encourage critical thinking and studying through questions and readings that consistently connect philosophy back to students’ personal experiences.
The Eleventh Edition is now easier to use and more flexible than ever. And, it is simple to customize the content and the readings in the text to meet specific course needs with TextChoice and Proteus (see SUPPLEMENTS section.) When used with The Examined Life Telecourse, Philosophy: A Text With Readings, Eleventh Edition is the ideal text choice for distance learning settings. Whether you are teaching your course online or in the classroom, unmatched support is just a click away with our Philosophy Resource Center, a powerful course resource system.
| The Nature Of Philosophy | |
| What Is Philosophy? | |
| The Traditional Divisions of Philosophy | |
| A Philosopher in Action: Socrates | |
| The Value of Philosophy | |
| Chapter Summary | |
| Historical Showcase: The First Philosophers | |
| Reading | |
| Human Nature | |
| Why Study Human Nature? | |
| What Is Human Nature? | ... MORE |
| The Mind-Body Problem: How Do Mind and Body Relate? | |
| Is There an Enduring Self? | |
| Are We Independent and Self-Sufficient Individuals? | |
| Chapter Summary | |
| Historical Showcase: Plato, Aristotle, and Confucius | |
| Readings | |
| Reality And Being | |
| What Is Real? | |
| Reality: Material or Nonmaterial? | |
| Reality in Pragmatism | |
| Reality and Logical Positivism | |
| Antirealism: The Heir of Pragmatism and Idealism | |
| Encountering Reality: Phenomenology and Existentialism | |
| Is Freedom Real? | |
| Is Time Real? | |
| Chapter Summary | |
| Historical Showcase: Hobbes and Berkeley | |
| Readings | |
| Philosophy And God | |
| The Significance of Religion | |
| Does God Exist? | |
| Atheism, Agnosticism, and the Problem of Evil | |
| Traditional Religious Belief and Experience | |
| Nontraditional Religious Experience | |
| Chapter Summary | |
| Historical Showcase: Aquinas, Descartes, and Conway | |
| Readings | |
| The Sources Of Knowledge | |
| Why Is Knowledge a Problem? | |
| Is Reason the Source of Our Knowledge? | |
| Can the Senses Account for All Our Knowledge? | |
| Kant: Does the Knowing Mind Shape the World? | |
| Does Science Give Us Knowledge? | |
| Chapter Summary | |
| Historical Showcase: Hume | |
| Readings | |
| Truth | |
| Knowledge, Truth, and Justification | |
| What Is Truth? | |
| Does Science Give Us Truth? | |
| Can Interpretations Be True? | |
| Chapter Summary | |
| Historical Showcase: Kant | |
| Readings | |
| Ethics | |
| What Is Ethics? | |
| Is Ethics Relative? | |
| Do Consequences Make an Action Right? | |
| Do Rules Define Morality? | |
| Is Ethics Based on Character? | |
| Can Ethics Resolve Moral Quandaries? | |
| Ethics and Moral Responsibility | |
| Chapter Summary | |
| Historical Showcase: Nietzsche and Wollstonecraft | |
| Readings | |
| Social And Political Philosophy | |
| What Is Social and Political Philosophy? | |
| What Justifies the State? | |
| What is Justice? | |
| Limits on the State | |
| Chapter Summary | |
| Historical Showcase: Marx and Rawls | |
| Readings | |
| Postscript: The Meaning Of Life | |
| Does Life Have Meaning? | |
| The Theistic Response to Meaning | |
| Meaning and Human Progress | |
| The Nihilist Rejection of Meaning | |
| Meaning as a Self-Chosen Commitment | |
| Chapter Summary | |
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