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Classic Philosophic Questions has presented decades of students with the most compelling classic and contemporary primary source readings on the most enduring and abiding questions in philosophy.   Classic Philosophic Questions is a longstanding and highly respected anthology of basic readings in philosophy, taken from ancient, modern, and contemporary sources.  Issues are treated in a fundamentally open manner with arguments pro and con for the various positions covered.  All selections are taken from primary sources, with introductions and study guides to facilitate reading for the beginning student.  A unique feature of this book is the list of "think abouts" at the end of most of the readings.  These suggest issues raised in the readings that can promote new ways of thinking about themes and concepts.   This text offers a comprehensive, first-hand experience of all the major branches of Philosophy. It covers all the fundamentals in philosophy, as opposed to volumes dealing with specialized topics.  It draws from the ancient as well as modern and contemporary sources, rather than focusing on one particular historical period.  Each reading contains a biographical sketch of the author, and a group of further readings for the student wishing to pursue the issue in greater depth.

Table of Contents:
Contents Preface   PART 1--Plato and the Trial of Socrates What is Philosophy? 1.  Euthyphro:  Defining Philosophical Terms 2.  The Apology, Phaedo, and Crito: The Trial, Immortality, and                    Death of Socrates   PART 2 --Philosophy of Religion Can We Prove That God Exists? 3.  St. Anselm:  The Ontological Argument 4.  St. Thomas Aquinas:  The Cosmological Argument 5.  William Paley:  The Teleological Argument 6.  BlaisePascal:  It Is Better to Believe in God’s Existence Than to Deny It 7.  William James:  Free Choice is the Basis of Belief.   Does the Idea of a Good God Exclude Evil? 8.  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz:  God Can Allow Some Evil 9.  David Hume:  A Good God Would Exclude Evil   PART 3 -- Ethics Are Ethics Relative? 10.  Ruth Benedict:  Ethics Are Relative 11.  W.T. Stace:  Ethics Are Not Relative   Are Humans Always Selfish? 12.  Humans Are Always Selfish:  Glaucon’s Challenge to Socrates 13.  James Rachels:  Humans Are Not Always Selfish   Which Is Basic in Ethics:  Happiness or Obligation? 14.  Aristotle:  Happiness Is Living Virtuously 15.  Jeremy Bentham:  Happiness Is Seeking the Greatest Pleasure for the Greatest Number of People. 16.  Immanuel Kant:  Duty Is Prior to Happiness 17.  Friedrich Nietzsche:  Happiness is Having Power 18.  Jean-Paul Sartre:  Existentialist Ethics 19.  Rosemarie Tong:  Feminist Ethics Are Different   Three Contemporary Moral Problems: Abortion, Homosexuality, Animal Rights. 20. Jane English:  Are Most Abortions Moral? 21.  James A. Gould:  Is Homosexuality Unnatural or Immoral?  22.  Peter Singer:  Do Animals Have Rights?   PART 4 -- Knowledge What is Knowledge? 23. Plato:  Knowledge is `Warranted, True Belief’   What Method is Best for Acquiring Knowledge? 24. Charles Sanders Peirce: Four Approaches to Philosophy         How Do We Acquire Knowledge? 25.  René Descartes:  Knowledge Is Not Ultimately Sense Knowledge 26.  John Locke:  Knowledge Is Ultimately Sensed 27.  Immanuel Kant:  Knowledge Is Both Rational and Empirical   How Is Truth Established? 28.  Bertrand Russell: Truth Is Established by Correspondence 29.  F. H. Bradley:  Truth Is Established by Coherence 30.  William James:  Truth Is Established on Pragmatic Grounds   Can We Know the Nature of Causal Relations? 31.  David Hume: Cause Means Regular Association 32.  David Hume: There Are No Possible Grounds for Induction   PART 5 — Metaphysics Why is there something rather than nothing? 33. Parmenides: Being is Uncaused 34. Lao-Tzu:  Non-Being is the Source of Being         Is Reality General or Particular? 35.  Plato:  Universals Are Real 36.  David Hume:  Particulars Are Real   Of What Does Reality Consist? 37.  René Descartes:  Reality Consists of Mind and Matter 38.  Paul Churchland:  Reality Consists of Matter 39.  George Berkeley:  Reality Consists of Ideas 40.  John Dewey:  Reality Consists of Mental and Physical Qualities   Are Humans Free?  41.  Holbach:  Humans Are Determined 42. Moritz Schlick:  Freedom and Determinism are Compatible 43. Robert Kane:  Humans are Free   PART 6 —Social and Political Philosophy What is Liberty? 44.  Fyodor Dostoevski:  Liberty and Authority 45.  John Stuart Mill:  Liberty is Independence from the Majority’s Tyranny 46.  Martin Luther King Jr.:  Liberty and Racial Prejudice           Which Government Is Best? 47.  Thomas Hobbes:  Monarchy Is Best 48.  John Locke:  Democracy Is Best 49.  Karl Marx:  Communism and Nonalienated Labor Is Best 50.  Alexis de Tocqueville:  Democracy Can Have Serious Problems 51.  Karl Popper: Utopias Lead to Violence   PART 7 --Aesthetics What Constitutes the Experience of Beauty? 52.  Plotinus:  Beauty, Sensuous and Ideal   What Is the Function of Art? 53.  Aristotle: The Nature of Tragedy 54.   Henri Bergson: The Nature of Comedy   PART 8 —Philosophy and the Good Life Two Classic Views of the Good Life 55.  Epicurus and the Pleasant Life 56.  Epictetus and the Life of Self Control   What Gives Life Meaning? 57.  Leo Tolstoy:  Faith Provides Life’s Meaning. 58.  Albert Camus:  Each Person Determines His or Her Life’s Meaning.   What is the Value of Philosophy? 59.  Bertrand Russell: The Value of Philosophy   Glossary


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780136006527
  • Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
  • Publisher Imprint: Pearson
  • Depth: 19
  • Height: 232 mm
  • No of Pages: 704
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 635 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0136006523
  • Publisher Date: 10 Feb 2009
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Edition: 13 Rev ed
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 27 mm
  • Width: 178 mm


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