Reading for Philosophical Inquiry: A Brief Introduction to Philosophical Thinking by Lee Archie and John G. Archie - HTML preview
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Document Outline
- Reading for Philosophical Inquiry
- Table of Contents
- Chapter 1
- Preface
- Part I. Personal Uses of Philosophy
- Chapter 2
- The Nature of Learning: Recognition of Different Perspectives
- Chapter 3
- The Nature of Philosophical Inquiry
- Chapter 4
- Just Do What's Right by Plato
- About the author
- Ideas of Interest from the The Apology, I
- Reading Selection from The Apology, I
- [Socrates Requests a Just Listening]
- [Charges of the Older Accusers]
- [Defense Against Older Accusations]
- [Delphic Oracle]
- [Socrates Crossexamines Others]
- [Why Socrates is Wise]
- [Prejudice Against Socrates]
- [Defense Against Corruption of the Youth]
- [Defense Against Atheism]
- [Do What's Right, Regardless]
- [Socrates, a Gadfly]
- [Socrates' Divine Sign]
- [Doing What's Right, Regardless of Threat]
- [The Defense Concluded]
- Related Ideas
- Topics Worth Investigating
- Chapter 5
- Seek Truth Rather Than Escape Death, by Plato
- Chapter 6
- Enlargement of Self by Bertrand Russell
- Chapter 7
- "Only Faith Can Give Truth" by Leo Tolstoy
- Chapter 8
- Le Mythe de Sisyphe by Albert Camus trans. by Hélène Brown
- Part II. Philosophy of Religion
- Chapter 9
- God and the World
- Chapter 10
- The Ontological Argument by St. Anselm
- Chapter 11
- An Answer to Anselm by Gaunilo
- Chapter 12
- Existence Is Not a Predicate by Immanuel Kant
- Chapter 13
- From the Nature of the Universe by Thomas Aquinas
- Chapter 14
- The Teleological Argument by William Paley
- Chapter 15
- Critique of the Design Argument by David Hume
- Chapter 16
- The Wager by Blaise Pascal
- Chapter 17
- The Problem of Evil by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Part III. Philosophical Ethics
- Chapter 18
- Free Will and Determinism
- Chapter 19
- Human Beings are Determined by Baruch Spinoza
- Chapter 20
- The Will to Believe by William James
- Chapter 21
- The Ring of Gyges by Plato
- Chapter 22
- Life of Excellence: Living and Doing Well by Aristotle
- Chapter 23
- Happiness Is the Greatest Good by Jeremy Bentham
- Chapter 24
- Slave and Master Morality by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Chapter 25
- Man Makes Himself by JeanPaul Sartre
- Part IV. Epistemology and Metaphysics
- Chapter 26
- Positive Philosophy by August Comte
- Chapter 27
- Science of Natural Processes by Frederick Engels
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