Introduction to Philosophy: A Guided Reader
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2015
Pages: 510
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Part I Origins of Western Philosophy
Chapter One: The Rise of Western Philosophy
Chapter Two: Socrates and Plato
A. Plato, Euthyphro (entire)
1. Reading Questions
2. The Reading
3. Discussion Questions
B. Plato, Apology (entire)
1. Reading Questions
2. The Reading
3. Discussion Questions
C. Plato, Crito (entire)
1. Reading Questions
2. The Reading
3. Discussion Questions
D. Plato, from Phaedo
1. Reading Questions
2. The Reading
3. Discussion Questions
Part II Metaphysics 3
Chapter Three: Understanding Reality—Classic and Contemporary Questions
A. Plato, from Republic Book VI
1. Reading Questions
2. The Reading
3. Discussion Questions
B. Aristotle, from Metaphysics, Book XII and Physics, Book II
1. Reading Questions
2. The Reading
3. Discussion Questions
C. Rene Descartes, from The Principles of Philosophy, Parts LI - LX
1. Reading Questions
2. The Reading
3. Discussion Questions
Chapter Four: The Mind–Body Problem
A. Rene Descartes, from Meditations on First Philosophy: Meditation VI
1. Reading Questions
2. The Reading
3. Discussion Questions
B. George Berkeley, from A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
1. Reading Questions
2. The Reading
3. Discussion Questions
Part III Does God Exist?
Chapter Five: Metaphysical, Evidential, and Pragmatic Approaches
A. Laurence Rohrer, A Summary of St. Anselm’s Proslogion: Chapter Two
1. Reading Questions
2. The Reading
B. Guanilo of Marmoutiers, A Reply to the Foregoing by a Certain
Writer on Behalf of the Fool
1. Reading Questions
2. The Reading
3. Discussion Questions
C. Rene Descartes, from Meditations on First Philosophy: Mediation III
1. Reading Questions
2. The Reading
3. Discussion Questions
D. Immanuel Kant, from The Critique of Pure Reason: Chapter III, Section IV
1. Reading Questions
2. The Reading
3. Discussion Questions
E. St. Thomas Aquinas, from Summa Theologica: Five Ways to Prove
God’s Existence
1. Reading Questions
2. The Reading
3. Discussion Questions
F. William Lane Craig, Philosophical and Scientific Pointers to Creatio ex Nihilo
1. Reading Questions
2. The Reading
3. Discussion Questions
G. Anthony Flew, R. M. Hare, and Basil Mitchell debate, Theology and Falsification
1. Reading Questions
2. The Reading
3. Discussion Questions
H. William James, The Will to Believe
1. Reading Questions
2. The Reading
3. Discussion Questions
Chapter Six: God and the Problem of Evil
A. David Hume, from Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Part 11
1. Reading Questions
2. The Reading
3. Discussion Questions
B. J. L. Mackie, Evil and Omnipotence
1. Reading Questions
2. The Reading
3. Discussion Questions
Part IV Epistemology—What Do We Know?
Chapter Seven: The Rationalists
A. Plato, from Republic, Book VI & Book VII
1. Reading Questions
2. The Reading
3. Discussion Questions
B. Rene Descartes, from Meditations on First Philosophy: Meditations I, II, and IV
1. Reading Questions
2. The Reading
3. Discussion Questions
Chapter Eight: Empiricism, Subjective Idealism, and Skepticism
A. John Locke, from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding:
Introduction and Parts 7 and 8
1. Reading Questions
2. The Reading
3. Discussion Questions
B. George Berkeley, from A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human
Knowledge
1. Reading Questions
2. The Reading
3. Discussion Questions
C. David Hume, from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: Sections II-V
1. Reading Questions
2. The Reading
3. Discussion Questions
Chapter Nine: Kant and Pragmatism
A. Immanuel Kant, from The Critique of Pure Reason: Excerpt from
The Introduction
1. Reading Questions
2. The Reading
3. Discussion Questions
B. William James, The Will to Believe
1. Reading Questions
2. The Reading (See pp. 132, Section III)
3. Discussion Questions
Part V Moral and Political Philosophy
Chapter Ten: The Pursuit of the Good
A. Aristotle, from Nicomachean Ethics Books I-IV
1. Reading Questions
2. The Reading
3. Discussion Questions
B. Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus
1. Reading Questions
2. The Reading
3. Discussion Questions
C. Marcus Aurelius, from The Meditations: Book III
1. Reading Questions
2. The Reading
3. Discussion Questions
D. St. Augustine of Hippo, Of the Morals of the Catholic Church
1. Reading Questions
2. The Reading
3. Discussion Questions
Chapter Eleven: Morality as Right Action
A. Immanuel Kant, from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
1. Reading Questions
2. The Reading
3. Discussion Questions
B. John Stuart Mill, from Utilitarianism, Chapters 1-4
1. Reading Questions
2. The Reading
3. Discussion Questions
C. Louis Pojman, The Case against Moral Relativism
1. Reading Questions
2. The Reading
3. Discussion Questions
D. Alasdair MacIntyre, from After Virtue: Chapters 1, 2, and 3
1. Reading Questions
2. The Reading
3. Discussion Questions
Chapter Twelve: Rival Theories of Justice
A. Plato, from The Republic Book I
1. Reading Questions
2. The Reading
3. Discussion Questions
B. Aristotle, from Nicomachean Ethics, Book V
1. Reading Questions
2. The Reading
3. Discussion Questions
C. Thomas Hobbes, from Leviathan: Chapter XII
1. Reading Questions
2. The Reading
3. Discussion Questions
D. John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism: Chapter V 464
1. Reading Questions
2. The Reading
3. Discussion Questions
E. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Manifesto of the Communist Party:
Preamble and Chapters I-III
1. Reading Questions
2. The Reading
3. Discussion Questions
F. Laurence Rohrer, Two Contemporary Approaches to Justice:
The Rawls and Nozick Debate
1. Reading Questions
2. The Reading
3. Discussion Questions
References