INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY

Reading from Plato

PART ONE: ETHICS: WHAT SHOULD I DO AND WHY SHOULD I DO IT?

Chapter 1: Fulfilling Human Purpose

Reading from Aristotle

Chapter 2: What Can We Control?

Reading from Epictetus

Chapter 3: The Modes of Love

Reading from St. Augustine

Chapter 4: A Sense of Duty

Reading from Kant

Chapter 5: Pleasure versus Pain

Readings from Bentham and Mill

Chapter 6: Turning Values Upside Down

Readings from Nietzsche

Chapter 7: Is There a Characteristically Feminine Voice Defining Morality?

Readings from Gilligan and Baier

PART TWO: POLITICS: WHY SHOULD I OBEY?

Chapter 8: The Natural Basis for Society

Reading from Aristotle

Chapter 9: Political consequences of Biological Differences

Readings from Beauvoir, Plato, and Trebilcot

Chapter 10: Natural Law

Reading from Aquinas

Chapter 11: The Social Contract

Readings from Hobbes and Locke

Chapter 12: Individualism and Liberty

Reading from Mill

Chapter 13: Class Conflict

Reading from Marx

Chapter 14: Justice as Fairness

Reading from Rawls

PART THREE: KNOWLEDGE: WHAT CAN I KNOW?

Chapter 15: Opinion versus Knowledge

Reading from Plato

Chapter 16: Power of Reason

Reading from Descartes

Chapter 17: Limits of Knowledge

Reading from Hume

Chapter 18: How Knowledge is Possible

Reading from Kant

Chapter 19: Thinking and Doing

Readings from James

Chapter 20: Words and the World: The Linguistic Turn: Russell, Carnap, Wittgenstein, and Rorty

Reading from Rorty

PART FOUR: RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE AND THE EXISTENCE OF GOD: WHAT CAN I BELIEVE?

Chapter 21: The Nature of Religious Knowledge

Readings from Aquinas, James, Russell, and Freud.

Chapter 22: Proving the Existence of God

Readings from Anselm, Aquinas, Paley, Hume, and Kant

PART FIVE: METAPHYSICS

Chapter 23: Causes of Being

Readings from Aristotle

Chapter 24: Atoms and Space

Readings from Lucretius and Eddington

Chapter 25: Mind, the True Reality

Reading from Berkeley

PART SIX: PERSONAL IDENTITY: WHAT AM I?

Chapter 26: The Separation of Mind and Body

Reading from Descartes

Chapter 27: Descartes' Category-Mistake

Reading from Ryle

Chapter 28: Do Minds Survive Death of the Body?

Readings from Plato, Hume and Kierkegaard

Chapter 29: The Mind-Body Problem

Reading from Searle

PART SEVEN: FREEDOM OF THE WILL: IS MY WILL FREE?

Chapter 30: Human Beings as Controlled Puppets

Reading from Hospers

Chapter 31: The Impact of Our Past on Our Present

Reading from Radhakrishnan

Chapter 32: A Personal Exemption from Complete Determinism

Reading from Skinner

Chapter 33: How Can We Explain Judgments of Regret?

Reading from James

Chapter 34: Minds, Brains, and Science

Reading from Searle

PART EIGHT: THE QUESTION OF DESTINY: WHAT IS THE MEANING OF LIFE?

Chapter 35: The Deliberate Limitations of Philosophy

Reading from Warnock

Chapter 36: The Inevitability of the Question "What Is the Aim of Life?"

Reading from Tolstoy

Chapter 37: The Stages on Life's Way

Reading from Kierkegaard

Chapter 38: The Human Condition

Reading from Sarte

Glossary

Additional Suggested Readings

Index