Allows instructors to avoid student confusion or misunderstanding. Allows instructors to choose issues and recurring themes that interest them while providing a structure that makes teaching easy and flexible. Heightens student interest, and demonstrates the connection of modern-day issues to fundamental philosophical questions. Issues in Feminism included. Demonstrates that philosophy is a contemporary as well as classical pursuit and exposes students to this important and relevant philosophical perspective.
Explanatory introduction accompanies each selection.
Guides students to what is central and important in each selection. Study questions are provided with each selection. Allows students an immediate review of comprehension of the key arguments presented in each selection. Expanded To Think About sections with Famous Quotations that relate to the topic sections. Enlivens class discussions and provides essay topics.