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Tables of Contents for Entertaining Ideas
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction: Philosopher in the Midst
11
17
PART ONE: ON PHILOSOPHY
A Plea for Philosophy
17
3
Becoming a Philosopher
20
4
A Pronoun Is a Small World
24
3
Remembering Spinoza
27
3
The Greatest Story Ever Told
30
3
Connections to the World
33
4
Reaching Out-to World Philosophy
37
8
PART TWO: REINVENTING HUMANISM
The End of Man
45
9
The Awful Truth (about ``Secular Humanism'')
54
4
The End of the Enlightenment
58
10
Existentialism: An Introduction
68
9
What's Wrong with Sentimentality?
77
10
Confessions and Memoirs: The Ad Hominem in Philosophy
87
12
PART THREE: THINKING ABOUT EMOTIONS
Rationality, Emotions, and Culture
99
7
Anthropology and the Emotions
106
4
Justice and the Passion for Vengenance
110
9
The Philosophy of Horror, Or, Why Did Godzilla Cross the Road?
119
12
The Logic of Emotions
131
8
Are the Three Stooges Funny? Coitainly! (or When Is It O.K. to Laugh?)
139
12
PART FOUR: ABOUT LOVE
``Violets are Red, Roses are Blue'': A History of Love
151
6
The State of Unions
157
3
``The Game of Love''
160
10
Love's Chemistry
170
3
The Politics of Sleep
173
4
Sexual Paradigms
177
10
Incest: The Ultimate Taboo
187
8
PART FIVE: ETHICS
A Drop in the Bucket
195
3
Righteous Food
198
6
What a Tangled Web We Weave
204
6
Bioscience as a Social Practice
210
8
Animal Minds
218
11
Ethical Styles
229
7
Environmentalism as a Humanism
236
15
PART SIX: MONEY AND MORALS
The One-Minute Moralist
251
4
What Is Business Ethics?
255
13
Abstract Greed
268
4
Economics and Ethics
272
2
The New Family Doctor
274
4
Fate and the Liability Crisis
278
11
PART SEVEN: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
``Our Sick Society''
289
3
The New Illiteracy: Vive les Books!
292
4
Culture Tells Us Who We Are
296
3
Literature and the Education of the Emotions
299
In Defense of Kitsch
14
311
PART EIGHT: ON EDUCATION
Two Cultures, 1990: Business and the Humanities
325
3
Are Ethics Courses Useful?
328
3
SOTA (Students Older than Average)
331
3
On Racism and Multiculturalism
334
3
Professors Riot: Kill Moby Dick
337
7
Beefeater Goes to College
344