A Handbook to Questions for the Soul

Chapter 1: Philosophy’s Value: Wisdom and Insight 
1. Reading Philosophy at Night 
2. Wisdom 
3. Stories of Chuang Tzu and Hui Tzu 
4. What is Enlightenment? 
5. The Apology 
6. Life in the Woods 
7. Feminism, Feelings, and Philosophy 
8. Philosophical Thinking in India, China, and Japan 
9. Is There an African Philosophy? 
10. Value of Philosophy 

Chapter 2: Being 
1. From Siddhartha 
2. Tao-Te Ching
3. The Pre-Socratic Philosophers 
4. Two Tables
5. Reality Consists of Ideas 
6. The Crest-Jewel of Discrimination

Chapter 3: Knowledge
1. Knowledge is Recollection
2. The Divided Line 
3. The Allegory of the Cave 
4. From Meditations on First Philosophy 
5. What is Indubitable? 
6. Skepticism 
7. An Empiricist Theory of Knowledge 
8. The Problem of Induction 
9. Is the Sex of the Knower Epistemologically Significant?
10. Practice and Contradiction 

Chapter 4: Truth 
1. Truth as Correspondence 
2. Truth is Established by Coherence 
3. Pragmatism’s Conception of Truth
4. The Subjective Truth
5. On the Essence of Truth 
6. From Cultural Gaps: Why Do We Misunderstand? 

Chapter 5: Goodness
1. Story of a Good Brahmin 
2. Work, Nonattachment, and Wisdom
3. From The Analects of Confucius
4. On Cultivation of Character
5. Human Nature is Evil 
6. Virtue and Happiness 
7. Friendship
8. A Good Will
9. From Utilitarianism 
10. The Idea of a Female Ethic
11. Ambition 
12. Ethics Are Relative

Chapter 6: Beauty
1. Letters to a Young Poet
2. The Form of Beauty 
3. On Beauty and Ugliness 
4. Apollo and Dionysus 
5. What is Art? 
6. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
7. On Elegance in Japan 173 8. Chinese Aesthetics 

Chapter 7: God 
1. The Ontological Argument
2. The Teleological Argument
3. The Five Ways 
4. The Wager 
5. The Leap of Faith
6. The Will to Believe
7. Agnosticism
8. The Problem of Evil

Chapter 8: Freedom
1. Fate
2. Determinism
3. Karma and Freedom
4. Absolute Freedom
5. The Legend of the Grand Inquisitor
6. Freedom and the Control of Men
7. Choice and Human Dignity
8. Freedom and the Inner Strength 

Chapter 9: Immortality
1. The Wine is in the Glass 
2. The Law of the Spirits 
3. A Treatise on Death
4. Is the Notion of Disembodied Existence Intelligible? 
5. Phaedo
6. Letter to Menoeceus 
7. Scripture of the Pure Land
8. Death is Swallowed Up in Victory 
9. The Dead in Christ Shall Rise First

Chapter 10: Meaning 
1. Night-Sea Journey 
2. Substance, Shadow and Spirit 
3. My Confession
4. Death of Ivan Ilych
5. The Myth of Sisyphus
6. Response
7. Three Passions
8. Truth and Validity 
9. Understanding Arguments