Words of Wisdom: Intro to Philosophy
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Contents
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Language
English
ISBN
1493019309
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Table Of Contents
Introduction
Classics
Aesop's Fables
Excerpts from Aristotle's "Metaphysics"
Plato's "Allegory of the Cave"
Aristotle's Ethics and Virtues
"The Ring of Gyges" from Plato's Republic
Socrates' Dialogue with Euthyphro
Medieval Materials
Augustine of Hippo: On the Nature of Good
Anselm of Canterbury: Monologion Chapter 1
Anselm: Proslogian 2 and 3
Aquinas: Summa Theologicae
Aquinas: Summa Theologicae Third Article
Machiavelli: excerpts from "The Prince"
Rumi
Omar Khayyam
Excerpts from the letters of Abelard and Héloïse
Spiritual Philosophy and Tales from Across the World
From the Hindu Bhagavad Gita
Teachings from Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha
Lao Tzu--Daoism
Kong Fu Tzu/ Confucius
North American Tribal Tales
African tales
Baal Shem Tov
Bluebeard
From Judaism
From Christianity
From Islam
Maimonides' "Guide for the Perplexed"
1001 Nights
Early Modern Wisdom 1500-1750
Rene Descartes
Thomas Hobbes
Blaise Pascal
David Hume
Late Modern Wisdom 1750-1950 CE
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jeremy Bentham
John Stuart Mill
Immanuel Kant
Søren Kierkegaard
Friedrich Nietzsche
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
William James
Bertrand Russell--two essays
Ayn Rand
Modern Wisdom
JL Mackie
Simone de Beauvoir
Elizabeth Anscombe
Gandhi
Dalai Lama
Nelson Mandela
Martin Luther King Jr
Philippa Foot
Patrick Stokes
Native American Voices
Links to Additional Great Resources
Ursula LeGuin
Kwame Anthony Appiah, from TedTalks
Anna Quindlen, from the New York Times
Peter Singer, from TedTalks
Carol Gilligan
Peggy Orenstein
Ashey Judd for TedTalks
Paul Bloom, for New York Times
Elie Wiesel, interview with Bill Moyers
Stephen Colbert, from The Colbert Report
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