Self and world readings in philosophy. (Forth Worth Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers, 1981)
Table of Contents: Preface. -- 1. Philosophy as Self-Knowledge: Story of a Good Brahmin / Voltaire -- On Ego Extension and Overjoy / Tom Wolfe -- 2. The Self: Meditations I and II / Rene Descartes -- Descartes' Myth / Gilbert Ryle -- On Free Will / St. Augustine -- Freedom and Self-creation / Jean-Paul Sartre -- On Self-identity / David Hume -- Identity, Youth and Crisis / Erik Erikson -- 3. Knowledge and Other Selves: The Divided Line and the Myth of the Cave / Plato -- Letter to Menoeceus / Epicurus -- Metaphysical Intuition and the Self / Henri Bergson -- Philosophical Analysis and the Problem of Other Minds / A. J. Ayer -- How I Know Others / Michael Polanyi -- How Others Know Me / Erving Goffman -- The Social Origins of the Self / George Herbert Mead -- 4. From Family to Society: Politics / Aristotle -- On Paternal Power and Civil Society / John Locke -- The Sexual Revolution / Wilhelm Reich -- The Politics of the Family / R. D. Laing -- Crito / Plato -- Of the Limits to the Authority of Society Over the Individual / John Stuart Mill -- On Alienation / Karl Marx -- 5. Politics and The Environment: The State of Nature / Thomas Hobbes -- The Social Contract / Jean Jacques Rousseau -- Utopian Communities / Martin Buber -- Why Tribe / Gary Snyder -- Poetry and Revolution: The Anarchist as Reactionary / Benjamin Barber -- The Roots of Ecological Crisis / Gregory Bateson -- The Politics of Scarcity / William Ophuls -- 6. Ethics: On Women / Arthur Schopenhauer -- Womanpower / Germaine Greer -- A Defense of Abortion / Judith Jarvis Thomson -- Abortion and Moral Seriousness / Daniel Callahan -- Violence and Liberation / Frantz Fanon -- On Violence / Hannah Arendt -- 7. Tradition and Upheaval: Esthetics and Education -- The Pedagogy of the Oppressed / Paolo Freire -- Labor and Leisure / John Dewey -- Education and Ecstasy / G. Leonard -- The Case Against Art / Plato -- Manifesto of Surrealism / Andrew Breton -- 8. The Community of Man and the Cosmos: Truth is Subjectivity / Soren Kierkegaard -- The Antichrist / Friedrich Nietzsche -- The Ethics of Belief / W. K. Clifford -- The Will of Believe / William James -- The Awakening of a New Consciousness in Zen / Daisetz T. Suzuki -- Mysticism and Human Reason / W. T. Stace -- The Logic of Mysticism / John Findlay. -- Sources and Acknowledgments.
Includes bibliographical references.
Keywords: Human beings; Self (Philosophy).; Self-knowledge, Theory of; Social ethics