Fundamentals of Philosophy
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An accessible reader/text for beginning students of philosophy, this volume offers a broad scope of diverse classic and contemporary selections – with a narrative and format that presents difficult issues and readings in a simplified but not condescending manner. The readings are grouped around major philosophic themes: logic, ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of religion, philosophy of art, and social and political philosophy. It also offers a selection of readings from Eastern philosophy.
1The Activity of Philosophy22Philosophy and the Examined Life133The Practice of Philosophy234Philosophy and the Search for Truth335The Life of Reason466Argument Forms537Inductive Arguments and Scientific Reasoning688Strategies for Philosophical Argument809Introduction to Metaphysics10010Materialism12511Idealism14712The Mind-Body Problem16413Metaphysics and Language17714Introduction to Epistemology18615Appearance and Reality19316The Quest for Certainty20817Trust Your Senses22418A Compromise23419The Challenges of Postmodernism24720Introduction to Ethical Reasoning26021The Need for Morality26722The Morality of Self-Realization28823Morality Depends on the Consequences30424Morality Depends on Motives31825Introduction to Philosophy and Religion33026Arguments for God's Existence: The Ontological Argument34627Arguments for God's Existence: The Cosmological Arguments35928The Problem of Evil38429Introduction to the Philosophy of Art39830The Value of Art40931Art as Ideal42032Esthetics and Ideology43333Introduction to Social Philosophy44634The Libertarian View of the State45535The Egalitarian View of the State46936Justice as Fairness48537Philosophy East and West50038Eastern Thought: Theories of Human Nature50639Eastern Thought: The Individual and the Collective524Glossary of Terms544Index555
