The life of the mind
Subtitle: readings for PHIL 1000
By: edited by Jason A. Scorza [and others]
Contributors: Fairleigh Dickinson University
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Copley Custom Textbooks
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Acton, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781581522150
Subjects: Philosophy; Study and teaching; Ethics
Notes: Readings for Fairleigh Dickinson University's PHIL 1000 course.
Table of contents: title: The dilemma of obedience / Stanley Milgram; title: What pragmatism means / William James; title: Pragmatism's conception of truth / William James; title: The judgment of Thamus / Neil Postman; title: Excerpts from Utilitarianism / John Stuart Mill; title: Excerpts from Fundamental principles of the metaphysics of morals / Immanuel Kant; title: Feminist transformation of moral theory / Virginia Held; title: Excerpts from Leviathan / Thomas Hobbes; title: Excerpts from The virtue of selfishness / Ayn Rand; title: Active and passive euthanasia / James Rachels; title: Assisted suicide: pro-choice or anti-life? / Richard Doerflinger; title: Death and dignity: a case of individualized decision making / Timothy E. Quill; title: Excerpts from Political theory of Islam / Sayyid Abdul A 'La Maududi; title: Excerpt from Islam and democracy / John L. Esposito and John O. Voll; title: The moral equivalent of war / William James; title: Why war? / Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein; title: The angry American / Stephen A. Diamond; title: The two classes of instinct / Sigmund Freud; title: Consciousness and what is unconscious / Sigmund Freud; title: Bungled actions / Sigmund Freud; title: Epilogue to Obedience to authority: an experimental view / Stanley Milgram.