Traversing Philosophical Boundaries
ISBN: 9781111298180 | 1111298181
Edition: 4thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 1/12/2011
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TRAVERSING PHILOSOPHICAL BOUNDARIES is the most comprehensive multicultural text/reader for introductory philosophy on the market today. Addressing six primary philosophical concerns?the self, reality, epistemology, ethics, politics, and religion?this book contains not only many readings from the Western canon, but also essential readings from many cultural perspectives not typically included in introductory philosophy classes. Asian, African, African-American, Latin American, and Feminist traditions are broadly represented and fully integrated into the exploration of these fundamental matters. The text also includes several readings from the sciences, with selections from Charles Darwin, Stephen Hawking, and Jared Diamond.
| Introduction | |
| Self, Mind, and Body | |
| Do We Have an Essential Self or Soul? | |
| Dialogue with Death, From the Upanishads | |
| On Personal Identity | |
| The Questions of King Milinda on the Self, From the Buddhist Scriptures | |
| There Is No Personal Identity | |
| A Dialogue on Immortality | |
| To What Extent Do Our Bodies Determine Who We Are? The Nature of ... MORE | |
| Of the Real Distinction Between Mind and Body | |
| Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons | |
| Disciplining the Body | |
| Females as Docile Bodies | |
| Where Am I? | |
| What Else Determines Who I Am? ZarathustraÆs Prologue and Three Speeches | |
| The Question of Lay Analysis | |
| The Social Self | |
| The Illusion of Human Freedom | |
| Existentialism Is a Humanism | |
| Woman as the Second Sex | |
| An Autobiographical View of Mixed Race and Deracination | |
| Creation and Reality | |
| How Did We Get Here? An African Creation Story, From the Sacred Storytelling of the Boshongo People | |
| Creation of the World from the Self, From the Upanishads | |
| The Creation and the Fall, From the Bible | |
| How the World Was Made and the Origin of Disease and Medicine, From the Sacred Storytelling of the Cherokee | |
| Origin and Fate of the Universe | |
| The Origin of the Species | |
| YaliÆs Question | |
| What Is the Nature of Reality? The Myth of the Cave | |
| Plato | |
| The Way of the Universe | |
| The Nature of Reality | |
| On the Nature of Things, Lucretius | |
| The Monadology | |
| An Introduction to Metaphysics | |
| The True Features of Reality | |
| The Politics of Reality | |
| Knowledge and Truth | |
| How Do We Know What We Know? Meditations on the Nature of Knowledge | |
| The Source of Our Knowledge | |
| Principles of Human Knowledge | |
| The Fixation of Belief | |
| PragmatismÆs Conception of Truth | |
| Methods and Modes of Knowing | |
| Truth and Existence | |
| Navajo Ways of Knowing | |
| The Metaphysics of Oppression | |
| Is Knowledge Really Attainable? A Dialogue on Dogmatism and Truth | |
| From the Buddhist Scriptures | |
| The Identity of Contraries | |
| Circles | |
| Doubts Concerning the Possibility of Knowledge | |
| The Elimination of Metaphysics | |
| Situated Knowers | |
| Ethics | |
| How Do We Determine What We Ought to Do? | |
| The Proper Function of Man and Its Relation to the Good Life, Aristotle | |
| On Human Goodness, Mencius | |
| The Good Will and Morality | |
| The Principle of Utility | |
| The Sentiment of Solidarity as the Foundation of Ethics | |
| Mysticism and Ethics in Hindu Thought | |
| Compassion and the Reverence for Life | |
| What Are Some Reasons for Questioning Traditional Values? Relativism | |
| Master Morality and Slave Morality | |
| Mitakuye Oyasin: We Are All Related | |
| The Earth Charter, The Earth Charter Commission | |
| Transvaluation of Values: The End of Phallic Morality | |
| The Ethics of Care | |
| What Means This Freedom | |
| Politics | |
| What Is the Basis of Our Obligations to Society? Crito, Plato, The Social Contract | |
| The Declaration of Independence | |
| The Racial Contract | |
| The Communist Manifesto | |
| Socialist Feminism: Our Bridge to Freedom | |
| In Defense of Democracy | |
| The Political Theory of Islam | |
| Who Is Your Mother? Red Roots of White Feminism | |
| Where Do Our Obligations to Society End? On Liberty | |
| On Revolt | |
| Principles of Nonviolence | |
| Letter from Birmingham Jail | |
| Power and Racism | |
| Feminism: A Transformational Politic | |
| On the Duty of Civil Disobedience | |
| Anarchism: What It Really Stands For | |
| Religion | |
| What Is the Basis of Religious Belief? Confessions on the Nature of God | |
| The Powers of the Bison and the Elk | |
| Proof That God Exists | |
| The Faith of Abraham | |
| I and Thou | |
| Involvement in the Liberation Process | |
| Witchcraft and WomenÆs Culture, Starhawk | |
| The Anthropological Essence of Religion | |
| Is Religious Belief Beneficial or Harmful? The Will to Believe | |
| Myth and Society | |
| Why Women Need the Goddess | |
| Why I Am a Pagan | |
| Religion and Science | |
| How Not to Compare African Thought with Western Thought | |
| Theology and Falsification | |
| Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization? | |
| Glossary | |
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