1. SELF, MIND, AND BODY. A. Do We Have an Essential Self or Soul? Upanishads: "A Dialogue with Death". John Locke: On Personal Identity. Buddhist Scriptures: "The Questions of King Milinda on the Self". David Hume: "There is No Personal Identity". Arthur Schopenhauer: "A Dialogue on Immortality". B. To What Extent Do Our Bodies Determine Who We Are? Plato: "The Nature of the Soul and Its Relation to the Body". Rene Descartes: "Of The Real Distinction Between Mind and Body". Elizabeth V. Spelman: "Woman as Body: Ancient and Contemporary Views". Derek Parfit: "Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons". Daniel Dennett: " Where Am I?" C. What Else Determines Who I Am? Friedrich Nietzche: "Zarathustra''s Prologue" and "Three Speeches". Jean-Paul Sartre: "Human Existence as Freedom". B.F. Skinner: "The Illusion of Human Freedom". Simone de Beauvoir: "Woman as the Second Sex". Naomi Zack: "An Autobiographical View of Mixed Race and Deracination". 2. CREATION AND REALITY. A. How Did We Get Here? Sacred Storytelling of Africa: "A Creation Story of the Boshongo People". Upanishads: "Creation of the World from the Self". The Bible: "The Creation and the Fall". Sacred Storytelling of the Cherokee: "How the World was Made" and "The Origin of Disease and Medicine". Stephen W. Hawking: "The Origin and Fate of the Universe". Charles Darwin: "The Origin of the Species". B. What Is the Nature of Reality? Plato: "The Myth of the Cave". Lao-Tzu: "The Way of the Universe". Wang Chung: "The Nature of Reality". Lucretius: "On the Nature of Things". Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: "The Monadology". Henri Bergson: "An Introduction to Metaphysics". Kitar Nishida: "The True Features of Reality". Marilyn Frye: "The Politics of Reality". 3. KNOWLEDGE AND TRUTH. A. How Do We Know What We Know? Rene Descartes: "Meditations on the Nature of Knowledge". John Locke: "The Source of Our Knowledge". George Berkeley: "Principles of Human Knowledge". Charles Sanders Pierce: "The Fixation of Belief". William James: "Pragmatism''s Conception of Truth". Jose Vasconcelos: "Methods and Modes of Knowing". Karl Jaspers: "Truth and Existence". Herbert John Benally: "Navajo Ways of Knowing". Alison M. Jaggar: "Feminist Politics and Epistemology: Justifying Feminist Theory". Jorge Valadez: "The Metaphysics of Oppression". B. Is Knowledge Really Attainable? Buddhist Scripture: "A Dialogue on Dogmatism and Truth". Chuang-tzu: "The Identity of Contraries". Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Circles". David Hume: "Doubts Concerning the Operations of the Understanding". Alfred Jules Ayer: "The Elimination of Metaphysics". 4. ETHICS. A. How Do We Determine What We Ought to Do? Aristotle: "The Proper Function of Man and Its Relation to the Good Life". Mencius: "On Human Goodness". Immanuel Kant: "The Good Will and Morality". Jeremy Bentham: "The Principle of Utility". Enrique Jose Varona: "The Sentiment of Solidarity as the Foundation of Ethics". Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan: "Mysticism and Ethics in Hindu Thought". Albert Schweitzer: "Ethics of Compassion". B. What Are Some Reasons for Questioning Traditional Values? David Wong: "Relativism". Friedrich Nietzsche: " Master Morality and Salve Morality". Ed (Eagle Man) McGaa: "Mitakuye Oyasin: We Are All Related". Aldo Leopold: "The Land Ethic". Carol Gilligan: "In a Different Voice". Mary Daly: "Transvaluation of Values: The End of Phallic Morality". John Hospers: "What Means this Freedom". 5. POLITICS. A. What Is the Basis of Our Obligations to Society? Plato: "The Crito". Jean-Jacques Rousseau: "The Social Contract". Thomas Jefferson: "The Declaration of Independence". Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: "The Communist Manifesto". Ernesto Che Guevara: "We Are Practical Revolutionaries". John Dewey: "Social Democracy". Abul A''la Maududi: "The Political Theory of Islam". Paula Gunn Allen: "Who Is Your Mother? Red Roots of White Feminism". B. Where Do Our Obligations to Society End? John Stuart Mill: "On Liberty". Mohandas K. Gandhi: "Principles of Nonviolence".