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Introduction
Heather Wilburn, Ph.D.
1. LOGOS: Critical Thinking, Arguments, and Fallacies
Heather Wilburn, Ph.D
2. An Introduction to Russell’s “The Value of Philosophy”
3. The Value of Philosophy
Bertrand Russell
4. Philosophy: Who Needs It
5. An Introduction to Plato's Apology
6. The Apology
Plato
7. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Edited by: Timothy Robbins
8. Selected Reading from St. Augustine's "The City of God"
Aurelius Augustine, Bishop of Hippo
9. Selected Reading from St. Augustine's "On the Holy Trinity"
Unit 1 Supplemental Readings
10. An Introduction to Plato's "Allegory of the Cave"
11. The Allegory of the Cave
12. Plato's "Simile of the Sun and "The Divided Line"
13. Parmenides
14. Symposium
15. An Introduction to Aristotle's Metaphysics
16. Selected Readings from Aristotle's Categories
Aristotle
17. Self and Atman (from Bhagavad Gita)
Noah Levin
18. Reality and Time (from Bhagavad Gita)
19. Dhamma: What the Buddha Taught
Douglas Sjoquist
20. What is a Chariot? (And what are we?)
21. We are Our Awareness
John Locke
22. Bundle Theory of the Self
David Hume
23. Ship of Theseus
24. Aquinas's Five Proofs for the Existence of God
25. St. Thomas Aquinas – On the Five Ways to Prove God’s Existence
St. Thomas Aquinas
26. William Paley – On The Teleological Argument
Jeff McLaughlin
27. St. Anselm – On the Ontological Proof of God’s Existence
28. David Hume– On the Irrationality of Believing in Miracles
29. Selections from Pascal's Pensées
Blaise Pascal
30. William James – On the Will to Believe
31. Søren Kierkegaard – On Encountering Faith
Unit 2 Supplemental Readings
32. An Introduction to Western Epistemology
33. Selected Readings from Russell's The Problems of Philosophy
34. Plato's Meno
35. Cogito
René Descartes
36. Empiricism
37. Selections from A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
George Berkeley
38. Esse est Percipi
39. Radical Empiricism
40. Selected Readings on Immanuel Kant's Transcendental Idealism
41. Transcendental Idealism
Immanuel Kant
42. William James – On Pragmatism
43. Truth is a Habit
Richard Rorty
44. Hatäta
Claude Sumner
Unit 3 Supplemental Readings
45. Slave and Master Morality (From Chapter IX of Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil)
Lee Archie and John G. Archie
46. The Ring of Gyges
47. A Little Book of Stoicism
St. George Stock
48. Selected Readings from David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
49. The Simple and Happy Life
Epicurus
50. An Introduction to Western Ethical Thought: Aristotle, Kant, Utilitarianism
51. A Pig, a Fool, and Socrates
John Stuart Mill
52. Utilitarianism
Andrew Fisher; Mark Dimmock; and Henry Imler
53. An Introduction to Kant's Moral Theory
54. Selected Readings from Kant's Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
55. The Categorical Imperative
56. Kantian Ethics
Andrew Fisher and Mark Dimmock
57. Aristotelian Virtue Ethics
58. Virtue
59. Euthyphro
60. Religious Ethical Systems
Andrew Fisher; Mark Dimmock; Henry Imler; and Kristin Whaley
61. God, Morality, and Religion
Kristin Whaley
62. Letter from the Birmingham City Jail
Martin King
63. Humanization is Liberation
Paulo Freire
Unit 4 Supplemental Readings
64. Plato's Republic - Book II
65. Selected Readings from Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan"
Thomas Hobbes
66. Selected Readings from John Locke's "Second Treatise of Government"
67. Original Acquisition
Selected Readings from Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract & Discourses
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
68. A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
69. John Rawls and the “Veil of Ignorance”
Ben Davies
70. John Stuart Mill – On The Equality of Women
71. Mary Wollstonecraft – On the Rights of Women
72. On Marxism and Value
Rasmin Canon
73. An Introduction to Marx's Philosophic and Economic Thought
74. Manifesto of the Communist Party
Frederick Engels and Karl Marx
75. Anarchy
Pëtr Kropotkin
76. Social Contracts of Exploitation
Charles Mills
77. Government in the Future
Unit 5 Supplemental Readings
78. Plato – On the Value of Art and Imitation
79. Aristotle – On Tragedy
80. David Hume – On Opinion and Taste
81. Kant's Project: A Short Overview
Laura Mueller, Ph.D.
82. Immanuel Kant – On the Aesthetic Taste
83. Edmund Burke – On the Sublime
Unit 6 Supplemental Readings
84. Selected Reading from Søren Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling
Søren Kierkegaard
85. Selected Readings on Søren Kierkegaard
86. Existentialism is a Humanism
87. Selected Reading from Simone de Beauvoir: Introduction to The Second Sex
88. The Myth of Sisyphus
89. Selected Readings from and on Friedrich Nietzsche's "Eternal Recurrence"
Friedrich Nietzsche
Unit 7: Existentialism
Text version of Existentialism is a Humanism
Audio only version of Existentialism is a Humanism
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