Introduction to world philosophies - Deutsch, Eliot (Upper Saddle River Prentice-Hall, 1997)
Table of Contents: Preface. Introduction. The Nature and Value of Philosophy. Timeline of Major Historical Philosophers Cited. Guide to Pronunciation. About the Editor. -- PART I. Who Am I?: Plato: "The Three Parts of the Soul" from The Republic. "The Immortality of the Soul" from the Phaedo -- Freud: " The Dissection of the Personality" from New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis -- Vedanta: "You are That" from Chandogya Upanisad. Eliot Deutsch, "The Self in Advaita Vedanta" from Advaita Vedanta: A Philosophical Reconstruction -- Descartes: "The Nature of the Human Mind" from Meditations on First Philosophy -- Buddhism: "There is no Ego or Personal Identity; Rebirth is Not Transmigration" from the Milindapanha, Visuddhi-Magga, and Maha-Vagga -- Hume: "Of Personal Identity" from A Treatise of Human Nature -- Grimshaw: "Human Nature and Women's Nature" -- Sartre: "An Existentialist View of the Self" from Existentialism -- MacIntyre: "A Narrative Conception of Selfhood" from After Virtue -- Confucianism: Wing-Tsit Chan, "The Humanis m of Confucius" -- Mencius, "Human Nature is Naturally Good" from The Book of Mencius -- Roger T. Ames, "The Focus-Field Self in Classical Confucianism" -- PART II. What is the Aim of Life? How to Be Ethically, How to Be Politically: Aristotle, "Virtue and the Good Life" from Nicomachean Ethics -- The Bhagavad Gita: Eliot Deutsch, "Some Key Terms and Concepts in the Bhagavad Gita." Selections from the Bhagavad Gita -- Confucius: "The Ideal Person and Ruler" from the Analects -- Herbert Fingarette, "A Way without a Crossroads" from Confucius: The Secular as Sacred -- Kant: "Duty and Morality" from Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals -- Mill, "Principles of Utilitarianism" from Utilitarianism -- Nietzsche, "On the Natural History of Morals" from Beyond Good and Evil -- Plato, "The Nature of the Ideal State" from The Republic -- Taoism: Lao Tzu, "The Natural Way" from Tao Te Ching -- Kropotkin, "An Anarchist View of Law and Authority" -- Han Fei Tzu, "Legalism" from Han Fei Tzu -- Locke, "The Origins and Nature of Political Society" from Second Treatise on Civil Government -- Mill, "The Good of Human Freedom" from On Liberty -- Rawls, "Justice as Fairness" -- Gandhi, "Nonviolence as a Political Method" from Young India -- PART III. What do I Know? What is Truth?: Tiles,"Images of Reason in Western Culture" -- Plato: F. M. Cornford, "Introduction to the Four Stages of Cognition". "Four Stages of Cognition: The Line" from The Republic -- Descartes, "The Universality and Method of Reason" from A Discourse on Method -- Leibniz, "The Kinds and the Source of Knowledge" from Discourse on Metaphysics -- Locke, "The Origin of Knowledge in Sense Experience" from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding -- Kant, "A Priori Knowledge and Analytic and Synthetic Judgments" from Critique of Pure Reason -- Code, "Taking Subjectivity into Account" -- Ames, "Images of Reason in Chinese Culture" -- Russell, "The Correspondence Theory of Truth" from The Problems of Philosophy -- Blanshard, "Coherence as the Nature of Truth" from The Nature of Thought -- James, "The Pragmatic Conception of Truth" from Pragmatism -- Datta and Potter: D. M. Datta, "Indian Conceptions of Knowledge and Knowing" from The Six Ways of Knowing. Karl Potter, "Good Reasons in Philosophical Discussions" from Presuppositions of India's Philosophies -- PART IV. What is Reality? -- Heidegger, "The Fundamental Question of Metaphysics" from An Introduction to Metaphysics -- Plato, "The Allegory of the Cave" from The Republic -- Chuang Tzu, "Dreaming and Awakening" from Chuang Tzu -- Aristotle: "A Metaphysical Understanding of Being" from Metaphysics. "The Category of Substance from Categories. "The Nature of Causality" from Physics. -- Vaisesika: Prasastapada, "Categories in the Vaisesika System" from The Padarthadharmasamgraha -- Wilhelm Halbfass, "The Vaisesika Categories" from On Being and What There Is" -- Kant, "Phenomena and Noumena" from Critique of Pure Reason -- Vedanta: Eliot Deutsch, "Brahman and the World" from Advaita Vedanta: A Philosophical Reconstruction -- Samkara, "Brahman as the Creative Principle of the World" from the Brahmasutrabhasya -- Spinoza, "Concerning God" from The Ethics -- Dogen, "Being-Time (Uji) from Shobogenzo -- Carvaka: Madhava, "The Carvaka System" from the Sarva-Darsana Samgraha -- Yogacara Buddhism: Vasubandhu, "There Is Only Mind" from Vimsatika and Trimsika -- Berkleley, "To Be Is To Be Perceived" from A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge/ -- Russell, "The Reality of the External World" from Our Knowledge of the External World -- Husserl, "The Thesis of the Natural Standpoint and Its Suspension" from Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology -- PART V. What is Religious Experience? Does God Exist? Why is there Evil?: Tillich, "What Faith Is" from The Dynamics of Faith -- Otto, "The Theistic Religious Experience:" from The Idea of the Holy -- Buber, "The I-Thou Experience" from I and Thou -- Freud, "The Psychical Origin of Religious Ideas" from The Future of an Illusion -- James, "Mysticism" from The Varieties of Religious Experience -- Smith, "Do Drugs Have Religious Import?" -- Suzuki, "Satori, or Acquiring a New Viewpoint" from An Introduction to Zen Buddhism -- Ruether, "Sexism and God-Language: Male and Female Images of the Divine" from Sexism and God-Talk -- Pascal, "The Wager" from Pensees -- Saint Anselm, "The Ontological Argument for the Existence of God" from The Proslogion -- Descartes, "The Ontological Argument Restated" from Meditations -- Kant, "The Impossibility of Ontological Proof" from Critique of Pure Reason -- Aquinas: "Five Ways to Prove the Existence of God" from Summa Theologica. F. C. Copleston, "Commentary on the Five Ways" from Aquinas -- Hume, "Against the Design Argument" from Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion -- Flew, "Theology and Falsification" from New Essays on Philosophical Theology -- Mackie and Hick: J. I. Mackie, "Evil and Omnipotence -- John Hick, "The Irenean Theodicy" -- Glossary -- Index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Philosophy -- Introduction