Title:
The philosophical quest : a cross-cultural reader
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2nd ed.
Publication Information:
Boston : McGraw-Hill, 2000
ISBN:
9780072898675
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Summary
Summary
This topically-organized anthology introduces the reader to fundamental questions in philosophy through a collection of Western and non-Western readings. Multicultural in its approach, the text highlights the similarities and differences of philosophers through the ages.
Table of Contents
| Chapter 1 Appearance And Reality |
| The World of Forms Plato |
| The Symposium Plato |
| Parable of the CaveBlack Elk |
| Crazy Horse's Vision |
| Hannah Arendt |
| The Value of theSurface Idealism |
| Western and AsianGeorge Berkeley |
| Subjective Idealism The Upanishads |
| Thou Art ThatSri Ramana Maharshi |
| A Commentary on the Upanishads Arthur Schopenhauer |
| The World as Will and IdeaHui Neng |
| The Sutra of Hui Neng MaterialismWang Fu-Chih |
| Neo-Confucian MaterialismFriedrich Engels |
| Materialism and the Scientific World View |
| Chapter 2 Knowledge And Science |
| The Problem of Method CharlesSanders Peirce |
| The Fixation of BeliefPaul Feyerabend |
| Against Method |
| Sandra Harding |
| Is Science Multicultural? |
| Patricia Hill Collins |
| Afrocentric Feminist Epistemology AyatullahMurtaza Mutahhari |
| Limits of Science |
| The Limits of Reason and the Limits of KnowledgeChaung Tzu |
| Knowledge and RelativityJorge Luis Borges |
| Averroes' SearchDaisetz T. Suzuki |
| Zen Knowledge |
| Chapter 3 Philosophy Of Religion |
| Theistic Arguments and Atheist ChallengesA.C. Ewing |
| Proofs of God's ExistenceAnthony Flew |
| Theology and FalsificationSigmund Freud |
| A Philosophy of Life The Religious ExperienceSarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
| Personal Experience of GodBuddhassa |
| No Religion Vine Deloira |
| Tribal Religious Realities Religions, Society, and PoliticsKarl Marx and F. Engels |
| Critique of Religion Leonardo and Clodovis Boff |
| Liberation TheologySulak Sivaraksa |
| Engaged Buddhism |
| Hassan Hanafi |
| Islam and RevolutionCarol P. Crhist |
| Why Women Need the Goddess |
| Chapter 4 Human Nature |
| Universal Human |
| Nature Is Human Nature Good or Evil? |
| A Chinese Debate |
| Mencius |
| Human Nature Is Good Hsun Tus |
| Human Nature Is Evil Thomas Hobbes |
| Human Nature as CompetitivePetr Kropotkin |
| Mutual Aid |
| Ashley Montague |
| War and AggressionJean-Paul Sartre |
| There Is No Human Nature |
| Francisco Miro Quesada |
| Man Without Theory Gender Nature Women's Nature |
| Two Islamic ViewsAl-Ghazali |
| The Proper Role for WomenFatima Mernissi |
| Beyond the WallSimone de Beauvoir |
| The Second Sex |
| Ortega y Gasset |
| Woman as BodyElizabeth V. Spelman |
| Gender and Race |
| Paula Guinn Allen: The Sacred Hoop Sexual NatureRichard D. Mohr and Gay Basics |
| Ruth Hubbard: The Social Construction of Sexuality |
| Chapter 5 Self, Mind And Body |
| A Controversy in the Modern Western Tradition Rene Descartes |
| Meditations David Hume |
| Personal Identity Hinduism and Buddhism |
| A Similar Controversy Bhagavad-Gita |
| Samkhya Dualism The Upanishads |
| The True Self Questions of King Melinda |
| No SelfT.R.V. Murti |
| The Middle Way Toshiko Izutsu |
| Ego-less Consciousness |
| A Zen View A Defense of Hume and Buddha Based on Modern PsychologyDerek Parfit |
| Divided Minds and the "Bundle" Theory of Self Self as ActivityRisieri Frondizi |
| Dynamic Unity of the Self The Self Beyond Death |
| The Tibetan Book of the Dead |
| Death and Rebirth |
| Innocent Onyweunyi |
| Africa and Reincarnation |
| A Reappraisal Plato |
| The Phaedo Aristotle |
| On the Soul The Carvaka School |
| Ancient Indian Materialism Bertrand Russell |
| Persons, Death, and the Body |
| Chapter 6 Destiny, Determinism, And Freedom |
| Destiny and Freedom Sarvepalli Radhakrishanan |
| Karma and FreedomKwame Gyekye |
| Destiny and Free Will |
| An African View Radical FreedomFyodor Dostoevsky |
| Notes from the UndergroundJean Paul Sartre |
| Freedom and Action Reconciling Freedom and DeterminismMortiz Schlick |
| Freedom and ResponsibilityJohn Hospers |
| Free Will and PsychoanalysisNancy Holmstrom |
| Firming Up Soft DeterminismKitaro Nishida |
| Freedom of the Will |
| Chapter 7 Ethics |
| The Ethics of Duty and Its Critics The Bh |
