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Biografie

Mountain View : Mayfield Publishing Company, c1999

xii,621 s.

ISBN 1-55934-964-6 (brož.)

Obsahuje poznámky, bibliografické citace, předmluvu

Filozofie - stati

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PREFACE V // What Is Philosophy? 1 // The Methods of Philosophy 2 // How to Read Philosophy 6 // Organization of the Topics 10 // The Point of It All 11 // PART I Philosophical Inquiry: How and Why? 13 // 1. Plato “The Apology” 14 // 2. Boethius From The Consolation of Philosophy 27 // 3. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan “The Spirit of Indian Philosophy” 43 // 4. Nancy Tuana From Woman and the History of Philosophy 49 // 5. Leopoldo Zea “The Actual Function of Philosophy in Latin America” // 6. Bertrand Russell On the Value of Philosophy 64 // 7. Marjorie Grene “Puzzled Notes on a Puzzling Profession” 68 // PART II Epistemology 73 // SECTION 1 TRUTH AND OBJECTIVITY // 8. Satischandra Chatterjee Indian and Western Theories of Truth 74 // 9. Friedrich Nietzsche “On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense” 80 // 10. Charles Sanders Peirce “The Fixation of Belief ” 83 // 11. Mao Zedong “On Practice” 91 // SECTION 2 WAYS OF KNOWING // 12. René Descartes Vvom Meditations on First Philosophy 100 // 13. John Locke Prom An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 108 // 14. Ernest Nagel From The Structure of Science 114 // SECTION 3 KNOWLEDGE AND RESPONSIBILITY // 15. John (Fire) Lame Deer On Vision Seeking 122 // 16. D. T. Suzuki “The Meaning of Satori” 127 // 17. Uma Narayan “The Project of Feminist Epistemology: Perspectives from a Nonwestern Feminist” 132 // 18. William Clifford “The Ethics of Belief ” 140 // 19. William James “The Will to Believe” 145 // 20. Lorraine Code “Experience, Knowledge and Responsibility” 157 // 21. Thomas Jefferson On Education and Citizenship 167 // Metaphysics 173 // PART III // SECTION 1 THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE // 22. Plato From The Republic 175 // 23. George Berkeley From A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge 180 // 24. Stephen Hawking “Elementary Particles and the Forces of Nature” 188 //

25. Thomas W. Overholt and J. Baird Callicott On the Ojibwa Worldview 196 // SECTION 2 THE NATURE OF THE HUMAN PERSON // 26. Risieri Frondizi From The Nature of the Self: A Functional Interpretation 206 // 27. KwameGyekye “The Concept of a Person” 215 // 28. Gilbert Ryle From The Concept of Mind 226 // 29. SriAurobindo “The Reincarnating Soul” 233 // 30. B. F. Skinner From Walden Two 237 // 31. Jean-Paul Sartre “Existentialism is a Humanism” 242 // SECTION 3 THE EXISTENCE OF DIVINE BEINGS // 32. Selections from the Bhagavad-Gitä 256 // 33. Anselm From the Pros/ogion 263 // 34. Thomas Aquinas From Summa Theologica 265 // 35. David Hume From Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion 267 // 36. Ludwig Feuerbach From The Essence of Christianity 279 // 37. Carol Christ “Why Women Need the Goddess: Phenomenological, Psychological, and Political Reflections” 290 // 38. Vine Deloria, Jr. From God Is Red 298 // PART IV // SECTION 1 ETHICAL JUDGMENT AND HUMAN NATURE // Morality 309 // 39. Ruth Benedict From “Anthropology and the Abnormal” 311 // 40. MaryMidgley “Trying Out One’s New Sword” 315 // 41. A. S. Cua “Reflections on Moral Theory and Understanding Moral Traditions” 319 // 42. Mencius From the Book of Mencius 326 // 43. Thomas Hobbes From Leviathan 334 // 44. Gunapala Dharmasiri “Motivation in Buddhist Ethics” 342 // SECTION 2 MORAL CHARACTER // 45. Laozi From the Dao De Jing 347 // 46. Confucius From the Ana/ecrs 355 // 47. Aristotle From Nichomachean Ethics 364 // 48. Mary Wollstonecraft From Vindication of the Rights of Woman 373 // SECTION 3 RIGHT AND WRONG CONDUCT // 49. Jeremy Bentham On the Principle of Utility 380 // 50. Immanuel Kant From Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals 388 // 51. Carol Gilligan From In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development 397 // 52. Riffat Hassan On the Islamic View of Rights and Duties 407 //

53. Thomas W. Overholt and J. Baird Callicott On Ojibwa Ethics 419 // PART V // SECTION 1 INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES // Political Philosophy 425 // 54. Alison Jaggar “Political Philosophy and Human Nature” 427 // 55. George Herbert Mead From Mind, Self and Society 434 // 56. John Stuart Mill From On Liberty 441 // 57. Martin Luther King, Jr. “Letter from Birmingham Jail” 449 // SECTION 2 SOCIAL POWER AND GROUP CONFLICT // 58. Karl Marx and Frederick Engels From the Manifesto of the Communist Party 458 // 59. Nancy Hartsock From Money, Sex, and Power: Toward a Feminist Historical Materialism 470 // 60. Kibujjo M. Kalumba “The Political Philosophy of Nelson Mandela: A Primer” 483 // 61. Mohandas K. Gandhi From Nonviolent Resistance 490 // SECTION 3 PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENT // 62. Abul A’la Maududi On the Islamic State 496 // 63. John Dewey On Democracy 502 // 64. V. I. Lenin From State and Revolution 507 // 65. Benito Mussolini “The Doctrine of Fascism” 517 // 66. Peter Kropotkin “Anarchism” 527 // PART VI // SECTION 1 THE NATURE OF ART AND AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE // Aesthetics 535 // 67. Yuriko Saito “The Japanese Appreciation of Nature” 537 // 68. Edward Bullough “ ‘Psychical Distance’ as a Factor in Art and as an Aesthetic Principle” 546 // 69. Leo Tolstoy From “What Is Art?” 553 // 70. Susanne Langer Ąrom Feeling and Form 558 // 71. Morris Weitz “The Role of Theory in Aesthetics” 563 // 72. Tomas Ybarra-Frausto “The Chicano Movement/The Movement of Chicano Art” 570 // SECTION 2 THE EVALUATION OF ART // 73. CurtDucasse From The Philosophy of Art 581 // 74. Monroe Beardsley “Tastes Can Be Disputed” 590 // 75. Innocent C. Onyewuenyi “Traditional African Aesthetics: A Philosophical Perspective” 595 // 76. Linda Nochlin “Why Are There No Great Women Artists?” 602 // Credits 619