Classic philosophical questions
By: [edited by] James A. Gould, Robert J. Mulvaney.
Contributors: Gould, James A., 1922-; Mulvaney, Robert J.
Edition: 13th ed.
Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Upper Saddle River, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780136006527
Subjects: Philosophy -- Introductions; Philosophy
Genres: Introductions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Plato and the trial of Socrates; title: What is philosophy?; title: Euthyphro : defining philosophical terms; title: The apology, Phaedo, and Crito : the trial, immortality, and death of Socrates; title: Philosophy of religion; title: Can we prove that God exists?; title: St. Anselm : the ontological argument; title: St. Thomas Aquinas : the cosmological argument; title: William Paley : the teleological argument; title: Blaisepascal : it is better to believe in God's existence than to deny it; title: William James : free choice is the basis of belief; title: Does the idea of a good God exclude evil?; title: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz : God can allow some evil; title: David Hume : a good God would exclude evil; title: Ethics; title: Are ethics relative?; title: Ruth Benedict : ethics are relative; title: W.T. Stace : ethics are not relative; title: Are humans always selfish?; title: Humans are always selfish : Glaucon's challenge to Socrates; title: James Rachels : humans are not always selfish; title: Which is basic in ethics : happiness or obligation?; title: Aristotle : happiness is living virtuously; title: Jeremy Bentham : happiness is seeking the greatest pleasure for the greatest number of people; title: Immanuel Kant : duty is prior to happiness; title: Friedrich Nietzsche : happiness is having power; title: Jean-Paul Sartre : existentialist ethics; title: Rosemarie Tong : feminist ethics are different; title: Contemporary moral problems : abortion, homosexuality, animal rights; title: Jane English : are most abortions moral?; title: Peter Singer : do animals have rights?; title: Knowledge; title: What is knowledge?; title: Plato : knowledge is warranted, true belief; title: What method is best for acquiring knowledge?; title: Charles Sanders Peirce : four approaches to philosophy; title: How do we acquire knowledge?; title: René Descartes : knowledge is not ultimately sense knowledge; title: John Locke : knowledge is ultimately sensed; title: Immanuel Kant : knowledge is both rational and empirical; title: How is truth established?; title: Bertrand Russell : truth is established by correspondence; title: Francis H. Bradley : truth is established by coherence; title: William James : truth is established on pragmatic grounds; title: Can we know the nature of causal relations?; title: David Hume : cause means regular association; title: David Hume : there are no possible grounds for induction; title: Metaphysics; title: Why is there something rather than nothing?; title: Parmenides : being is uncaused; title: Lao-Tzu : non-being is the source of being; title: Is reality general or particular?; title: Plato : universals are real; title: David Hume : particulars are real; title: Of what does reality consist?; title: René Descartes : reality consists of mind and matter; title: Paul Churchland : reality consists of matter; title: George Berkeley : reality consists of ideas; title: John Dewey : reality consists of mental and physical qualities; title: Are humans free?; title: Holbach : humans are determined; title: Robert Kane : humans are free; title: Social and political philosophy; title: What is liberty?; title: Fyodor Dostoevski : liberty and authority; title: John Stuart Mill : liberty is independence from the majority's tyranny; title: Martin Luther King, Jr. : liberty and racial prejudice; title: Which government is best?; title: Thomas Hobbes : monarchy is best; title: John Locke : democracy is best; title: Karl Marx : communism and nonalienated labor is best; title: Alexis de Tocqueville : democracy can have serious problems; title: Karl Popper : utopias lead to violence; title: Aesthetics; title: What constitutes the experience of beauty?; title: Plotinus : beauty, sensuous, and ideal; title: What is the function of art?; title: Aristotle : the nature of tragedy; title: Henri Bergson : the nature of comedy; title: Philosophy and the good life; title: Classic views of the good life; title: Epicurus : Epicurus and the pleasant life; title: Epictetus : Epictetus and the life of self-control; title: What gives life meaning?; title: Leo Tolstoy : faith provides life's meaning; title: Albert Camus : each person determines his or her life's meaning; title: What is the value of philosophy?; title: Bertrand Russell : the value of philosophy.