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Introduction
Gurinder Purewal and Jenna Woodrow
About the Authors
Gurinder Purewal and Jenna Woodrow
About This Book
Gurinder Purewal
Acknowledgements
Accessibility
How to Read and Write in Philosophy
1. How to Attend Class
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2. How to Read Philosophy
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3. How to Plan Your Philosophy Paper
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4. How to Write Your Philosophy Paper
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5. How to Cite Your Sources
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A Primer on Thought Experiments
1. Thought Experiments
Course Readings: Ancient to Enlightenment
1. On the Value of Philosophy — Bertrand Russell
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2. No, You’re Not Entitled to Your Opinion — Patrick Stokes
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3. The Argument Clinic — Monty Python
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4. Socrates and the Beginnings of Western Philosophy (470–399 BCE)
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5. Plato on Reality
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6. Relativism, Virtue, and Happiness (1): "Why Be Moral?" — Plato
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7. Relativism, Virtue, and Happiness (2): Plato's Republic (Book II)
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8. Relativism, Virtue, and Happiness (3): Custom is King — Herodotus
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9. Plato on Love
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10. Aristotle on the Goal of Human Life (484-347 BCE)
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11. Scientific Revolution: Reason, Method, and Faith (1637-1670) — René Descartes
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12. The Enlightenment: Empiricism, Knowledge, and Probabilities (1685-1776) — Blaise Pascal
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13. The Enlightenment: Empiricism, Knowledge, and Probabilities (1685-1776) — David Hume
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14. The Enlightenment: Politics and Human Nature (1651-1688) — Thomas Hobbes
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15. The Enlightenment: Freedom, Determinism, and the Self (1685–1776) — Pierre Laplace
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16. The Enlightenment: Morals and Politics (1712–1797) — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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17. The Enlightenment: Morals and Politics (1712–1797) — Mary Wollstonecraft
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Course Readings: Enlightenment to Modern
1. The Second Sex — Simone de Beauvoir
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2. How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
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3. Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery — Quobna Ottobah Cugoano
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4. Notes from the Underground — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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5. Preface to the Critique of Pure Reason — Immanuel Kant
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6. Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Intent — Immanuel Kant
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7. Absolute Idealism: Reasons in History — G.W.F. Hegel
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8. On the Death of God — Friedrich Nietzsche
9. Fear and Trembling — Søren Kierkegaard
10. The Sickness Unto Death — Søren Kierkegaard
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11. Individual Freedom — John Stuart Mill
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12. Class Struggle and History: The Communist Manifesto — Marx and Engels
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13. Introduction to the Philosophy of History — G.W.F. Hegel
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14. Appearance and Reality — Bertrand Russell
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15. The Meaning of Utilitarianism — John Stuart Mill
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16. Existentialism: Confronting Nothingness (1) — Jean Paul Satre
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17. Existentialism: Confronting Nothingness (2) — Albert Camus
18. On The Equality of Women — John Stuart Mill
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19. The Sovereignty of Indigenous Peoples’ Bodies — Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
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20. Women and Writing: A Room of One's Own — Virginia Woolf
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21. Fathers and Sons — Turgenev Ivan Sergeyevich
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