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Introducing Philosophy: A Text with Integrated Readings by Solomon

Introducing Philosophy: A Text with Integrated Readings, Eleventh Edition, is an exciting, accessible, and thorough introduction to the core questions of philosophy and the many ways in which they are, and have been, answered. The authors combine substantial selections from significant works in the history of philosophy with excerpts from current philosophy, clarifying the readings and providing context with their own detailed commentary and explanation. Spanning 2,500 years, the selections range from the oldest known fragments to cutting-edge contemporary essays. Organized topically, the chapters present alternative perspectives-including analytic, continental, feminist, and non-Western viewpoints-alongside the historical works of major Western philosophers.

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Introducing Philosophy's greatest strength is its vast, comprehensive scope. In most of its chapters it generally leaves no stone unturned, moving from Greco-Roman antiquity all the way to the living present, and incorporating elements from literary, theological, and Eastern religious-philosophic traditions. Marcos Arandia, North Lake College I am most impressed with the diversity of authors and ideas. I was thrilled to see the traditional classic Western works, along with feminist and Eastern philosophy. Jennifer Caseldine-Bracht, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne This book is a fine mixture of both excellent primary text selection and commentary by the authors. The breadth of subject matter and variety of perspectives makes it accommodating for just about any approach (e.g, topical, existential, continental, analytic, etc.). Mark D. Sadler, Northeast Lakeview College The writing style is beautiful, fluid, and very accessible. It's one of the main reasons that I use this text. The coverage is great. I especially appreciate the many sections, in several chapters, on existentialist philosophers and Eastern philosophers. Ellen B. Stansell, Austin Community College

About Solomon

Clancy Martin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. A Guggenheim Fellow, he is the author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of several books in philosophy, including Honest Work, Third Edition (2013), Ethics Across the Professions (2009), and The Philosophy Of Deception (2009), all published by OUP.

Table of Contents

*=NEW TO THIS EDITION ; INTRODUCTION ; A. SOCRATES ; Aristophanes, from The Clouds ; Plato, from The Apology; from The Crito; from The Phaedo; from The Republic ; B. WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY? ; Plato, from The Apology ; Karl Jaspers, from The 'Axial Period' ; Laozi, from Dao De Jing ; C. A MODERN APPROACH TO PHILOSOPHY ; Rene Descartes, from Discourse on Method ; D. A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC ; Key Terms ; Bibliography and Further Reading ; PART ONE. THE WORLD AND BEYOND ; CHAPTER 1. REALITY ; A. THE WAY THE WORLD REALLY IS ; Aristotle, from Metaphysics ; B. THE FIRST GREEK PHILOSOPHERS ; Parmenides, from Fragments ; C. ULTIMATE REALITY IN THE EAST: INDIA, PERSIA, AND CHINA ; From Upanishads ; From Zend-Avesta ; From The Confucian Analects ; Laozi, from Dao De Jing ; Buddha, from Fire-Sermon ; D. TWO KINDS OF METAPHYSICS: PLATO AND ARISTOTLE ; Plato, from The Symposium; from The Republic; from The Meno ; Aristotle, from Metaphysics; from Physics; from Metaphysics ; E. MODERN METAPHYSICS ; Rene Descartes, On Substance; from Meditation VI ; Benedictus de Spinoza, from Ethics ; Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, from Monadology ; * David Lewis, From Counterfactuals ; Martin Heidegger, from The Fundamental Question of Metaphysics ; CHAPTER 2. RELIGION ; A. WHAT IS RELIGION? ; John Wisdom, from Gods ; Albert Einstein, On the Design of the Universe ; Keiji Nishitani, from What Is Religion? ; B. THE WESTERN RELIGIONS ; C. PROVING GOD: THE ONTOLOGICAL ARGUMENT ; St. Anselm, On The Ontological Argument ; Rene Descartes, On the Ontological Argument ; Immanuel Kant, Against the Ontological Argument ; D. GOD AS CREATOR: INTELLIGENCE AND DESIGN ; St. Thomas Aquinas, Five Arguments for the Existence of God ; William Paley, From The Watch and the Watchmaker ; St. Thomas Aquinas, On the Fifth Way ; David Hume, from Dialogues on Natural Religion ; * Cory Juhl, On the Fine-Tuning Argument ; E. RELIGION, MORALITY, AND EVIL ; Immanuel Kant, On God and Morality ; William James, from The Will to Believe ; Blaise Pascal, The Wager ; St. Augustine, from Confessions ; From The Bhagavadgita ; F. BEYOND REASON: FAITH AND IRRATIONALITY ; Mohammad al-Ghazali, from The Deliverance from Error ; Soren Kierkegaard, On Subjective Truth ; Paul Tillich, On the Ultimate Concern ; G. DOUBTS ABOUT GOD AND RELIGION ; Fyodor Dostoyevsky, from The Brothers Karamazov ; Karl Marx, from Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right ; Friedrich Nietzsche, from Beyond Good and Evil; from The Antichrist; from The Gay Science ; Sigmund Freud, from The Future of an Illusion ; * Mary Daly, Wanted: God or Goddess? ; * Victor A. Gunasekara, The Buddhist Attitude to God ; CHAPTER 3. KNOWLEDGE ; Bertrand Russell, from The Problems of Philosophy ; * Plato, from The Republic ; Plato, from Theatetus ; A. THE RATIONALIST'S CONFIDENCE: DESCARTES ; Rene Descartes, from Meditation I; from Meditation II; from Meditation VI ; B. INNATE IDEAS CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING: JOHN LOCKE ; John Locke, from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ; Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, from New Essays on Human Understanding ; C. TWO EMPIRICIST THEORIES OF KNOWLEDGE ; John Locke, from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ; Bishop George Berkeley, from Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge ; D. THE CONGENIAL SKEPTIC: DAVID HUME ; David Hume, from A Treatise of Human Nature; from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; * E. A CONTEMPORARY CONUNDRUM: KNOWLEDGE AS JUSTIFIED TRUE BELIEF ; CHAPTER 4.TRUTH & RELATIVISM ; A.WHAT IS TRUTH? ; B.THEORIES OF TRUTH ; * Brand Blanshard, from The Nature of Thought ; * Charles Peirce, from How to Make Our Ideas Clear ; * William James, from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking. ; * Alfred Tarski, from The Semantic Theory of Truth ; C. KANT'S REVOLUTION ; Immanuel Kant, from The Critique of Pure Reason; from Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics ; D. THE BATTLE IN EUROPE AFTER KANT: RELATIVISM AND ABSOLUTISM ; G. W. F. Hegel, from The Phenomenology of Spirit; from Reason in History ; Arthur Schopenhauer, from The World as Will and Representation ; Friedrich Nietzsche, On Truth ; E. PHENOMENOLOGY ; Edmund Husserl, from Philosophy as Rigorous Science; from The 1929 Paris Lectures ; F. HERMENEUTICS AND PRAGMATISM: RELATIVISM RECONSIDERED ; Richard Rorty, from Solidarity or Objectivity? ; Isamu Nagami, from Cultural Gaps: Why Do We Misunderstand? ; G. THE ANALYTIC TURN ; Bertrand Russell, from The Problems of Philosophy ; W. V. O. Quine, from Epistemology Naturalized ; H. FEMINIST EPISTEMOLOGY ; Elizabeth Grosz, On Feminist Knowledge ; Uma Narayan, On Feminist Epistemology ; PART TWO. KNOW THYSELF ; CHAPTER 5. MIND AND BODY ; A. WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS? ; Rene Descartes, from Meditation VI; from Meditation III; from Meditation VI ; B. THE PROBLEM OF DUALISM ; Rene Descartes, from The Passions of the Soul ; C. THE REJECTION OF DUALISM ; Gilbert Ryle, from The Concept of Mind ; J. J. C. Smart, from Sensations and Brain Processes ; Jerome Shaffer, Against the Identity Theory ; Paul M. Churchland, On Eliminative Materialism ; David Braddon-Mitchell and Frank Jackson, from Philosophy of Mind and Cognition ; John R. Searle, from The Myth of the Computer; from Minds, Brains, and Science ; D. THE PROBLEM OF CONSCIOUSNESS ; Sigmund Freud, On the Unconscious ; Thomas Nagel, from Mortal Questions ; Aristotle, from De Anima ; Galen Strawson, On Cognitive Experience ; * Elizabeth V. Spelman, from Woman as Body: Ancient and Contemporary Views ; CHAPTER 6. SELF ; A. CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE SELF: FROM DESCARTES TO KANT ; Rene Descartes, from Meditation VI ; John Locke, On Personal Identity ; David Hume, On There Is No Self ; Immanuel Kant, Against the Soul ; Meredith Michaels, On Personal Identity ; * Derek Parfit, from Reasons and Persons ; B. EXISTENTIALISM: SELF-IDENTITY AND THE RESPONSIBILITY OF CHOICE ; Jean-Paul Sartre, On Existentialism; * On Bad Faith; from No Exit ; C. THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE COMMUNITY ; Soren Kierkegaard, On The Public; On Self and Passion ; Martin Heidegger, On Dasein and the They ; David Reisman, On Individualism ; Malcolm X, On Being African; from At the Audubon ; Sherry Ortner, from Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture? ; Ann Ferguson, On Androgyny ; * Dierdre McClosky, from Crossing ; D. ONE SELF? ANY SELF? QUESTIONING THE CONCEPT OF PERSONAL ESSENCE ; Hermann Hesse, from Steppenwolf ; Luce Irigaray, from This Sex Which Is Not One ; Genevieve Lloyd, from The Man of Reason ; From The Dhammapada ; Laozi, from Dao De Jing ; CHAPTER 7. FREEDOM ; A. FATALISM AND KARMA ; Sophocles, from Oedipus the King ; Keiji Nishitani, On Fate ; B. PREDESTINATION ; St. Augustine, from On Free Choice of the Will ; Muhammad Iqbal, from The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam ; Jacqueline Trimier, on the Yoruba Ori ; Jonathan Edwards, from Freedom of the Will ; C. DETERMINISM ; Baron Paul Henri d'Holbach, from System of Nature ; Daniel Dennett, from Elbow Room ; Robert Kane, On Indeterminism ; John Stuart Mill, On Causation and Necessity ; David Hume, On Causation and Character ; Robert Kane, On Wiggle Room ; Harry Frankfurt, from Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person ; D. COMPULSION AND IGNORANCE ; Aristotle, On Voluntary Action ; Judith Orr, Sex, Ignorance, and Freedom ; John Hospers, from What Means This Freedom? ; B. F. Skinner, Beyond Freedom ; B. F. Skinner, from Walden Two ; Robert Kane, Beyond Skinner ; Anthony Burgess, from A Clockwork Orange ; Catherine MacKinnon, On Coercion of Women's Sexuality ; E. FREEDOM IN PRACTICE: KANT'S SOLUTION ; F. RADICAL FREEDOM: EXISTENTIALISM ; Jean-Paul Sartre, On Absolute Freedom ; Fyodor Dostoyevsky, from The Most Advantageous Advantage ; Thich Nhat Hanh, from Turning on the Television ; PART THREE. THE GOOD AND THE RIGHT ; CHAPTER 8. ETHICS ; A. MORALITY ; B. IS MORALITY RELATIVE? ; Gilbert Harman, from Moral Relativism Defended ; St. Thomas Aquinas, from The Summa Theologica ; John Corvino, from Same Sex: Debating the Ethics, Science, and Culture of Homosexuality ; C. EGOISM AND ALTRUISM ; Plato, from The Republic ; * Tara Smith, On the Necessity of Egoism (Ayn Rand) ; D. ARE WE NATURALLY SELFISH? A DEBATE ; Mencius, On Human Nature: Man Is Good ; Xunzi, from Human Nature Is Evil ; Joseph Butler, Against Egoism ; E. MORALITY AS VIRTUE: ARISTOTLE ; Aristotle, from The Nicomachean Ethics ; F. MORALITY AND SENTIMENT: HUME AND ROUSSEAU ; David Hume, On Reason as Slave of the Passions ; Jean-Jacques Rousseau, from Emile ; G. MORALITY AND PRACTICAL REASON: KANT ; Immanuel Kant, from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals ; H. UTILITARIANISM ; Jeremy Bentham, from An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation ; John Stuart Mill, from Utilitarianism ; I. THE CREATION OF MORALITY: NIETZSCHE AND EXISTENTIALISM ; Friedrich Nietzsche, On Morality as Herd-Instinct; On Master and Slave Morality ; Jean-Paul Sartre, from Existentialism as a Humanism ; * Simone de Beauvoir, from The Ethics of Ambiguity ; J. ETHICS AND GENDER ; VIRGINIA HELD, ON FEMINIST ETHICS ; CHAPTER 9. JUSTICE ; A. THE PROBLEM OF JUSTICE ; B. TWO ANCIENT THEORIES OF JUSTICE: PLATO AND ARISTOTLE ; Plato, from The Republic ; Aristotle, from The Nicomachean Ethics ; C. TWO MODERN THEORIES OF JUSTICE: HUME AND MILL ON UTILITY AND RIGHTS ; David Hume, on Justice and Utility ; John Stuart Mill, from Utilitarianism ; D. THE SOCIAL CONTRACT ; Thomas Hobbes, from Leviathan ; Jean-Jacques Rousseau, from The Social Contract ; Thomas Jefferson et al., from The Declaration of Independence ; E. FAIRNESS AND ENTITLEMENT ; John Rawls, from Justice as Fairness ; Robert Nozick, from Anarchy, State, and Utopia ; F. JUSTICE OR CARE: A FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE ; Cheshire Calhoun, from Justice, Care, Gender Bias ; * Maria Lugones, from Playfulness, World-Traveling, and Loving Perception ; G. INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOM ; John Locke, from The Second Treatise on Government; from On Liberty ; Malcolm X, On Civil and Human Rights ; Amartya Sen, from Property and Hunger ; H. FIGHTING FOR RIGHTS AND JUSTICE: CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE ; Henry David Thoreau, from Resistance to Civil Government (Civil Disobedience) ; Martin Luther King, Jr., from Letter from Birmingham Jail

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Introducing Philosophy: A Text with Integrated Readings by Solomon
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20150929
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