The big questions: a short introduction to philosophy
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CONTENTS
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION DOING PHILOSOPHY
BEYOND BUZZWORDS 4 ARTICULATION AND ARGUMENT: TWO CRUCIAL FEATURES OE
PHILOSOPHY 5 CONCEPTS AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS 8 DOING PHILOSOPHY WITH
STYLE 13
A LITTLE LOGIC
DEDUCTION 16 INDUCTION 17 CRITICIZING ARGUMENTS 19 CLOSING QUESTIONS 23
SUGGESTED READINGS 24
CHAPTER 1 PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTIONS
WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY? 28 OPENING QUESTIONS 29 SUGGESTED READINGS 40
CHAPTER 2 THE MEANING OF LIFE
OPENING QUESTIONS 43 WHAT KIND OE MEANING? 44 CHILDREN AS MEANING 46 GOD
AS MEANING 46
AFTERLIFE AS MEANING 47 NO MEANING AT ALL 47 THE MEANINGS OE LIEE 50
LIFE AS AGAME 51
LIFE AS A STORY 51 LIFE AS TRAGEDY 52 LIFE AS COMEDY 53 LIFE AS A
MISSION 54 LIFE AS ART 55
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LIFE AS AN ADVENTURE 55 LIFE AS DISEASE 56 LIFE AS DESIRE 57 LIFE AS
NIRVANA 58
LIFE AS ALTRUISM 58 LIFE AS HONOR 59 LIFE AS LEAMING 59 LIFE AS
SUFFERING 60
LIFE AS AN INVESTMENT 61 LIFE AS RELATIONSHIPS 62 CLOSING QUESTIONS 62
SUGGESTED READINGS 63
CHAPTER 3 GOD OPENING QUESTIONS 65 BELIEVING IN GOD 66 GODS AND
GODDESSES 69
THE TRADITIONAL WESTERN CONCEPTIONS OF GOD 70 GOD AS TRANSEENDENT 73 GOD
AS IMMANENT 74 GOD AS TOTALLY IMMANENT: PANTHEISM 77
GOD AS UNIVERSAL SPIRIT 79 GOD AS PROEESS 79 GOD AS TRANSEENDENT
CREATOR: DEISM 80 GOD AS THE UNKNOWN OBJEET OF FAITH 81
GOD AS AMORAL BEING 82 THE PROBLEM OF EVIL 83 DENIAL OF GOD 83 TWO KINDS
OF EVIL 83
DENIAL OF EVIL 84 THE LEAST OF THE EVILS 85 THE AESTHETIE SOLUTION 86
THE FREE- WILL SOLUTION 86 JUSTIEE IN THE AFTERLIFE 87
GOD S MYSTERIOUS WAYS 87 WORKING OUT AN ANSWER 88 FAITH AND REASON:
GROUNDS FAR BELIEVING 88 THE COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT 90
THE ARGUMENTFROM DESIGN 91 THE ONTOLOGICAL ARGUMENT 92 RATIONAL FAITH 94
PASCALS WAGER 95
IRRATIONAL FAITH 96 RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE: RITUAL, TRADITION, AND
SPIRITUALITY 98
DOUBTS 101
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CONTENTS VII
CLOSING QUESTIONS 103
SUGGESTED READINGS 104
CHAPTER 4 THE NATURE OF REALITY
OPENING QUESTIONS 107 THE REAL WORLD 108 WHAT IS MOST REAL? 1IL IHE
REALITY BEHIND THE APPEARANCES 112
IHE BASIS OF METAPHYSICS 113 THE FIRST METAPHYSICIANS 114 IHALES 114 IHE
PRE-SOCRATIC MATERIALISTS 114 EARLY NONPHYSICAL VIEWS OF REALITY 117
PLATO S FORRNS 120 ARISTOTLE S METAPHYSICS 123 MIND AND METAPHYSICS 124
RENE DESCARTES 125
BARUCH SPINOZA 127 GOTTFRIED WILHELM VON LEIBNIZ 129 1DEALISRN 13 I
TELEOLOGY 136
METAPHYSICS AND THE EVERYDAY WORLD 139 CLOSING QUESTIONS 141 SUGGESTED
READINGS 142
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CHAPTER 5 THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH 145
OPENING QUESTIONS 145 WHAT IS TRUE? 145 IWO KINDS OF TRUTH 148 EMPIRICAL
IRUTH 148
NECESSARY IRUTH 149 RATIONALISM AND EMPIRICISM 152 THE PRESUPPOSITIONS
OF KNOWLEDGE 154 SKEPTICISRN 156
RENE DESCARTES AND THE METHOD OF DOUBT 158 DAVID HUMES SKEPTICISM 160
IHE RESOLUTION OF SKEPTICISM: IMMANUEL KANT 165 KNOWLEDGE, TRUTH, AND
SCIENCE 165
IHE NATURE OF TRUTH 170 IHE COHERENCE IHEORY OF IRUTH 172 NIE PRAGMATIC
IHEORY OF IRUTH 173 RATIONALITY 174
WHY BE RATIONAL? 176
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SUBJECTIVE TRUTH AND THE PROBLEM OF RELATIVISM 177 CLOSING QUESTIONS 182
SUGGESTED READINGS 183
CHAPTER 6 SELF
OPENING QUESTIONS 185 THE ESSENTIALSELF 186 SEIF AS BODY, SEIF AS
CONSCIOUSNESS 188 THE SELF AND ITS EMOTIONS 193
THE EGOCENTRIC PREDICAMENT 197 THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM 199 BEHAVIORISM 200
IDENTITY THEORY AND ELIMINATIVE
MATERIALISM 202 FUNCTIONALISM 204 AGAINST THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM 205
OTHER THEORIES OF THE SELF 206
THE SEIF AS A CHOICE 206 NO SEIF, MANY SEIVES 210 THE SEIF AS SOCIAL 212
THE SEIF AND REIATIONSHIPS 216 CLOSING QUESTIONS 219 SUGGESTED READINGS
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CHAPTER 7 FREEDOM 223
OPENING QUESTIONS 223 FREEDOM AND THE GOOD LIFE 224 WHY IS FREEDOM SO
IMPORTANT TO US? 225 WHAT IS POLITIEAL FREEDOM? 229
CONCEPTS OF SEIF AND GUR NOTIONS OF FREEDOM 232 FREE WILL AND
DETERMINISM 234 DETERMINISM VERSUS INDETERMINISM 237 THE ROLE OF
CONSCIOUSNESS 240
COMPATIBILISM, OR SOFT DETERMINISM 242 IN DEFENSE OF FREEDOM 244 CLOSING
QUESTIONS 248 SUGGESTED READINGS 248
CHAPTER 8 MORALITY AND THE GOOD LIFE
OPENING QUESTIONS 251 MORAL PHILOSOPHY 252 THE GOOD LIFE 253
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HEDONISM 253
SUCCESS 255 ASCETICISM 257 FREEDOM 257 POWER AND CREATIVITY 258
RELIGION 258 HAPPINESS 259 EGOISM VERSUS ALTRUISM 261 MORALITY AND
THEORIES OF MORALITY 266 DUTY-DEFINED MORALITY 269
IMMANUEL KANT AND THE AUTHORITY 01 REASON 270 CONSEQUENTIALIST THEORIES
272 UTILITARIANISM: JEREMY BENTHAM ANDJOHN STUART MI!! 273 ARISTOTLE AND
THE ETHICS OF VIRTUE 276
FEMINIST ETHICS: THE ETHICS OF CARE 278 MORALITY-RELATIVE OR ABSOLUTE?
280 FRIEDRICH NIETZSEHE AND THE ATTACK ON MORALITY 283 CLOSING QUESTIONS
286
SUGGESTED READINGS 287
CHAPTER 9 JUSTICE AND THE GOOD SOCIETY 289
OPENING QUESTIONS 289 MORALS AND SOCIETY 290 THE NATURE OF SOCIETY 291
WHO SHOULD RULE? THE QUESTION OFLEGITIMACY 292
ANARCHISM, THE FREE MARKET, AND THE NEED FOR GOVERNMENT 295
WHATISJUSTICE? 298 THE MEANING OF EQUALITY 30 I
THE ORIGINS OF]USTICE AND THE SOCIAL CONTRACT 304 JUSTICE BEYOND OUR
BORDERS 307 RIGHTS AND THE SELF 310 LIBERTARIANISM 311
LIBERALISM 311 COMMUNITARIANISM 311 JUSTICE DENIED: THE PROBLEM OF RACE
312 SEXUAL POLITICS: THE RISE OF FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY 316
WOMEN AND THE BODY 321 PLATO: PATRIARCH OR EARLY FEMINIST? 323 FEMINIST
EPISTEMOLOGY AND FEMINIST SCIENCE 324 FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY 01 LANGUAGE
325 CLOSING QUESTIONS 326 SUGGESTED READINGS 327
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CHAPTER 10 NON-WESTERN PHILOSOPHY
OPENING QUESTIONS 331 BEYOND THE WESTERN TRADITION 331 THE CHALLENGES OF
BROADENING OUR HORIZONS 333 OTHER CULTURES, OTHER PHILOSOPHIES 334
NATIVE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY 336 AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY 338 LATIN AMERICAN
PHILOSOPHY 340 MIDDLE EASTERN PHILOSOPHY 343
SOUTH ASIAN PHILOSOPHY 346 EAST ASIAN PHILOSOPHY 353 CLOSING QUESTIONS
360 SUGGESTED READINGS 361
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CHAPTER 11 BEAUTY 363
OPENING QUESTIONS 363 AESTHETICS 363 BEAUTY AND TRUTH 364 ENJOYING
TRAGEDY 368
ARGUING ABOUT TASTE 370 AN, ETHICS, AND RELIGION 373 WHY IS IT ART? 376
THE AESTHETICS OF POPULAR CULTURE 378
CLOSING QUESTIONS 382 SUGGESTED READINGS 382
APPENDIX A WRITING PHILOSOPHY
PRELIMINARIES 383 THE RULES OF GOOD WRITING IN PHILOSOPHY 384 ORGANIZE
384 WRITE SIMPLY 386
BE CLEAR 386 BE HUMAN 387 USE EXAMPLES 388 ARGUE YOUR POINT 390
CONSIDER THE OBJEETIONS AND ALTERNATIVES 392 DEFINE YOUR SPECIALIZED
TERMS 393 USE THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY 394 1NDIRECT STYLES 395
DIALOGUE STYLE 395 IRONIE STYLE 399 APHORISTIE STYLE 399 SUGGESTED
READINGS 402
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APPENDIX B DEDUCTIVE LOGIC VALID ARGUMENT FORMS 403
APPENDIX C COMMON INFORMAL FALLACIES 409
INFORMAL FALLACIES 409 MEREASSERTION 409 BEGGINGTHE QUESTION 409 VICIOUS
CIRCLE 410
IRRELEVANCIES 410 AD HOMINEM ARGUMENTS 410 UNCLEAR OR SHIFTING
CONCLUSIONS 411 CHANGINGMEANINGS 411
DISTRACTION 411 PSEUDOQUESTIONS 412 DUBIOUSAUTHORITY 412 SLIPPERY SLOPE
412 ATTACKING A STRAW MAN 413
PITY (AND OTHER EMOTIONAL APPEALS) 413 APPEAL TO FORCE 413
INAPPROPRIATEARGUMENTS 413
GLOSSARY 415
INDEX 435
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