Includes bibliographic references and index

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Part 1. What Is Philosophy? The activity of philosophy ; Philosophy and popular culture ; Philosophy`s history ; Philosophy and the examined life -- Part 2. Thinking About Thinking (Logic). The life of reason ; Argument forms ; Induction and the philosophy of science ; Strategies for philosophical arguments -- Part 3. What Is Real? (Metaphysics) Introduction to metaphysics ; Appearance and reality ; Materialism ; Idealism ; The mind-body problem and personal identity ; Freedom and determinism : the metaphysics of human agency -- Part 4. How Do We Know? (Epistemology) Introduction to epistemology ; The quest for certainty ; Trust your senses ; A compromise ; Knowledge and human practices : the pragmatist tradition -- Part 5. What Ought We To Do? (Ethics) Introduction to ethical reasoning ; The morality of self-realization ; Morality depends on the consequences ; Morality depends on the motives -- Part 6. Philosophy Of Religion. Introduction to philosophy of religion ; Religion and life`s meaning ; A priori arguments for god`s existence ; A posteriori arguments for god`s existence : Aquinas` five ways ; The problem of evil -- Part 7. Philosophy Of Art (Esthetics) Introduction to the philosophy of art ; The value of art ; Art as ideal ; Esthetics and ideology -- Part 8. Social And Political Philosophy. Introduction to social and political philosophy ; The liberal, secular state ; The individual and the state ; Human rights ; Individual happiness and social responsibility -- Part 9. Eastern Thought. Philosophy east and west ; Confucian theories of human nature ; Hindu debate on monism ; Buddhist theory of emptiness.

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