Philosopher's Way, The: Thinking Critically About Profound Ideas, 2nd Edition

For Introduction to Philosophy courses.

 

The Philosopher's Way, 2/e  inspires students to think like a philosopher. Integrated readings, interspersed with commentary, guide students in their understanding of the topics, while critical thinking activities challenge students to go beyond their reading to explore the connections philosophy has on their everyday lives. Full-color visuals bring topics to life, and writing examples give students a foundation for their own philosophical exploration.

The Philosopher's Way: A Text with Readings, 2nd Edition

 

1) WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY?
Thinking Philosophically About Life

2) WHAT IS THE PHILOSOPHER’S WAY?
Socrates and the Examined Life
3) WHO ARE YOU?
Consciousness, Identity, and the Soul
4) ARE YOU FREE?
Freedom and Determinism
5) HOW CAN WE KNOW THE NATURE OF REALITY?
Philosophical Foundations
6) WHAT IS REAL? WHAT IS TRUE?
Further Explorations
7) IS THERE A SPIRITUAL REALITY?
Exploring the Philosophy of Religion
8) ARE THERE MORAL TRUTHS?
Thinking About Ethics
9) WHAT ARE RIGHT ACTIONS?
Constructing an Ethical Theory
10) WHAT IS SOCIAL JUSTICE?
Creating a Just State

 

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The Primary Source compact disc: Table of Contents

 

Anselm: Proslogion (Chapters 2-7)

 

Aquinas, Thomas: Summa Theologica (third article: Whether God Exists)

 

Aristophanes: The Clouds

 

Aristotle: Categories; De Anima (On the Soul); The Metaphysics (Books Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Zeta); Nicomachean Ethics (Book I: 1095A, 1095B, 1096A, 1143B); On Interpretation; Physics (Book II); Poetics; The Politics (Book I, Book IV); Posterior Analytics (Book I); Prior Analytics; Rhetoric (Book I, Chapters 1-9; Book II, Chapters 1-4 and 16-24; Book III, Chapter 1)

 

Augustine: The City of God (Books I-V, XIV-XXII); The Confessions (Books I-II)

 

Aurelius, Marcus: Meditations (Books 3 and 4)

 

Benedict, Ruth: Anthropology and the Abnormal

 

Bentham, Jeremy: An Introduction to the Principles of Morality and Legislation (Chapters 1, 2, 4, 10)

 

Berkeley, George: Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous; A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. 

 

Bhagavad Gita

 

Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy

 

Buddha: The Fire Sermon; From the Diamond Sutra (The Vagrakkhedika); The Heart Sutra; Verses from the Sanskrit Dharmapada

 

Confucius: The Analects (Books III, IV, VII, VIII, XII, XIV, XV)

 

D’Holbach, Baron; Paul Henri Thiry: The System of Nature (Volume I, Chapters 11 and 12)

 

Descartes, Renè: Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking the Truth in the Sciences Meditations on First Philosophy

 

Du Bois, W.E.B.: The Souls of Black Folk (Of Our Spiritual Strivings, Of the Dawn of Freedom, Of the Sons of Master and Man)

 

Epictetus: Discourses (excerpt); The Enchiridion

 

Epicurus: Letter to Menoeceus

 

Heraclitus: Fragments (Numbers 32, 39, 54, 56, 72)

 

Hick, John: Philosophy of Religion (Chapter 4: The Problem of Evil)

 

Hobbes, Thomas: Leviathan (Parts One and Two)

 

Hume, David: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion; An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding (selections); A Treatise of Human Nature

 

James, William: Does “Consciousness” Exist?; Mysticism; Pragmatism; The Will to Believe

 

Kant, Immanuel: Critique of Practical Reason (Book 1); Critique of Pure Reason (Transcendental Aesthetic, Transcendental Logic); Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals (First and Second Sections); Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics (Preamble and Second Part)

 

Kierkegaard, Soren: Concluding Unscientific Postscript; Philosophical Fragments (The Leap of Faith and the Limits of Reason); That Individual

 

Lao Tzu (Laozi): Tao Te Ching (Daodejing) (Poems 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 17, 25, 34, 63, 77)

 

Leibniz, Gottfried: Monadology

 

Locke, John: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Book I, Chapters 1 and 2; Book II, Chapters 2 and 7; Book IV, Chapter 11); The Second Treatise of Government

 

Lucretius: On the Nature of the Universe (Books 2 and 3)

 

Marx, Karl: The Communist Manifesto

 

Mencius: Human Nature (Book II, Chapters V-VII)

 

Milindaphana: The Questions of King Milinda: The Simile of the Chariot

 

Mill, John Stuart: On Liberty; Utilitarianism (Chapters 1, 2 and excerpts from 4)

 

Paley, William: The Teleological Argument

 

Peirce, Charles S.: The Fixation of Belief: How to Make Our Ideas Clear

 

Plato: Apology; Charmides; Cratylus; Crito; Euthydemus; Euthyphro; Gorgias; Ion; Laches; The Laws (excerpts); Meno; Parmenides; Phaedo; Phaedrus (The Chariot Analogy); Philebus; Protagoras (excerpts); The Republic (The Myth of Gyges; What is Justice?; The Simile of the Cave); Sophist; Statesman; Symposium; Theaetetus (excerpts); Timaeus (excerpts)

 

Plotinus: The Enneads

 

Russell, Bertrand: The Problems of Philosophy (Chapters 1 and 15); Why I Am Not a Christian (The Existence of God; The First Cause Argument; The Argument from Design)

 

Singer, Peter: Animal Liberation

 

Smith, Adam: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Books I and II)

 

Spinoza, Baruch: The Ethics (Parts I and II)

 

Thales: Fragments

 

Upanishads

 

Wollstonecraft, Mary: A Vindication of the Rights of Women