Philosophy and Choice: Selected Readings from Around the World with Free Philosophy PowerWeb by Christensen, Kit Richard;

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This anthology of 78 readings includes historically diverse writings by men and women working within Asian, African, Latin American, and native North American cultural traditions, as well as classic and contemporary readings from Western sources. The aim is to present students with a more global, multicultural, and gender-conscious picture of philosophical inquiry and the range of issues it confronts.

Table of Contents:

PART I: Philosophical Inquiry: How and Why?

Plato, "The Apology" / Boethius, From The Consolation of Philosophy / Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, "The Spirit of Indian Philosophy" / Nancy Tuana, From Woman and the History of Philosophy / Leopoldo Zea, "The Actual Function of Philosophy in Latin America" / Bertrand Russell, On the Value of Philosophy / *Tsenay Serequeberhan, "African Philosophy: The Point in Question"

PART II: Epistemology

Section 1: Truth and Objectivity

Satischandra Chatterjee, Indian and Western Theories of Truth / Friedrich Nietzsche, "On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense? / Charles Sanders Peirce, ?The Fixation of Belief? / Mao Zedong, ?On Practice?

Section 2: Ways of Knowing

Rene Descartes, The Quest for Rational Certainty / John Locke, Experience as the Basis of Knowledge / Ernest Nagel, Scientific and Common-Sense Knowledge / John (Fire) Lame Deer, On Vision Seeking / D.T. Suzuki, "The Meaning of Satori" / Uma Narayan, "The Project of Feminist Epistemology: Perspectives from a Nonwestern Feminist"

Section 3: Knowledge and Responsibility

William Clifford, "The Ethics of Belief" / William James, "The Will to Believe" / Lorraine Code, "Experience, Knowledge and Responsibility" / Thomas Jefferson, On Education and Citizenship

PART III: Metaphysics

Section 1: The Nature of the Universe

Plato, The Intellectual World and the Visible World / George Berkeley, All Reality is Mental / *Carvaka Materialism / Thomas W. Overholt and J. Baird Callicott, On the Ojibwa Worldview

Section 2: The Nature of the Human Person

Risieri Frondizi, From The Nature of the Self: A Functional Interpretation / Kwame Gyekye, "The Concept of a Person" / Gilbert Ryle, A Critique of Mind-Body Dualism / Sri Aurobindo, "The Reincarnating Soul" / B.F. Skinner, The Denial of Free Will / *Walter Stace, The Compatibility of Free Will and Determinism / Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism and Freedom

Section 3: The Existence of Divine Beings

God and Human Striving in the Bhagavad-Gita / *Martin Buber, God as the Eternal You / Anselm, The Ontological Argument for God / Thomas Aquinas, The Cosmological Argument for God / David Hume, From Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion / Ludwig Feuerbach, From The Essence of Christianity / Carol Christ, "Why Women Need the Goddess: Phenomenological, Psychological, and Political Reflections" / Vine Deloria, Jr., From God is Red

PART IV: Morality

Section 1: Ethical Judgment and Human Nature

Ruth Benedict, Ethical Relativism / Mary Midgley, ?Trying Out One's New Sword? / Mencius, The Goodness of Human Nature / Thomas Hobbes, Egoism and Human Relations / Gunapala Dharmasiri, "Motivation in Buddhist Ethics"

Section 2: Moral Character

Laozi, From the Dao De Jing / Confucius, From the Analects / Aristotle, Virtue and Happiness / Mary Wollstonecraft, From Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Section 3: Right and Wrong Conduct

Jeremy Bentham, On the Principle of Utility / Immanuel Kant, Nonconsequentialist Ethics / Carol Gilligan, Care, Justice, and Gender / Riffat Hassan, On the Islamic View of Rights and Duties / *Donald A. Grinde and Bruce E. Johansen, A Native American Perspective on Environmental Ethics

PART V: Political Philosophy

Section 1: Individuals and Communities

Alison Jaggar, "Political Philosophy and Human Nature" / John Stuart Mill, From On Liberty / *Lucas D. Introna, "Privacy and the Computer: Why We Need Privacy in the Information Society" / Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

Section 2: Social Power and Group Conflict

Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, From the Manifesto of the Communist Party / Nancy Hartsock, From Money, Sex, and Power: Toward a Feminist / Historical Materialism / Kibujjo M. Kalumba, "The Political Philosophy of Nelson Mandela: A Primer" / Mohandas K. Gandhi, From Nonviolent Resistance / *Noam Chomsky, "Democracy and the Media"

Section 3: Principles of Government

Abul A?la Maududi, On the Islamic State / John Dewey, On Democracy / V.I. Lenin, From State and Revolution / Benito Mussolini, "The Doctrine of Fascism" / Peter Kropotkin, "Anarchism"

PART VI: Aesthetics

Section 1: The Nature of Art and Aesthetic Experience

Yuriko Saito, "The Japanese Appreciation of Nature" / Edward Bullough, "'Psychical Distance' as a Factor in Art and as an Aesthetic Principle" / Leo Tolstoy, From What Is Art? / Susanne Langer, Art and Human Feeling / Morris Weitz, A Nonessentialist Approach to Art / Tomas Ybarra-Frausto, "The Chicano Movement/The Movement of Chicano Art"

Section 2: The Evaluation of Art

Curt Ducasse, Aesthetic Liberalism / Monroe Beardsley, "Tastes Can Be Disputed" / Innocent C. Onyewuenyi, "Traditional African Aesthetics: A Philosophical Perspective" / Linda Nochlin, "Why Are There No Great Women Artists?"

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