Contents

1. Introduction

   1. Introduction
   2. Chapter Contents
   3. Reading the Materials

2. About the Authors

   Gurinder Purewal and Jenna Woodrow

   1. Dr. Jenna Woodrow
   2. Gurinder S. Purewal

3. About This Book

   Gurinder Purewal

4. Acknowledgements

   1. The Open Press
   2. Land Acknowledgement
   3. Resource Development Team 2024
   4. Kukstsélp. Thank you.

5. Accessibility

6. OER Adoption Form

7. How to Read and Write in Philosophy

   1. How to Attend Class

      1. Table of Contents
      2. Editor’s Notes
      3. The Traditional Classroom
      4. Suggestions
      5. Attribution

   2. How to Read Philosophy

      1. Table of Contents
      2. Editor’s Notes
      3. Understanding
      4. Evaluation
      5. Attribution

   3. How to Plan Your Philosophy Paper

      1. Table of Contents
      2. Editor’s Notes
      3. Understand the Nature of the Assignment
      4. Make Preliminary Notes about the Topic from Your Own Perspective
      5. Conduct Your First Search for Potential Sources
      6. Get Your Preliminary Sources Together
      7. Understand and Critically Reflect Upon the Articles You Have Found
      8. Create an Outline
      9. Attribution

   4. How to Write Your Philosophy Paper

      1. Table of Contents
      2. Editor’s Notes
      3. Your Title
      4. Your Opening
      5. Your Text
      6. Your Conclusion
      7. Your Paper’s Characteristics
      8. Walk Away from Your Essay
      9. Revisit and Revise Viciously!
      10. Check Your Paper Manually before Handing It In
      11. Attribution

   5. How to Cite Your Sources

      1. Table of Contents
      2. Editor’s Notes
      3. Citation Style Guides
      4. Other Citation Notes
      5. Submitting Your Paper
      6. Attribution
8. A Primer on Thought Experiments

   1. Thought Experiments

      1. Table of Contents
      2. Reading
      3. Thought Experiments
      4. Bibliography
9. Course Readings: Ancient to Enlightenment

   1. On the Value of Philosophy — Bertrand Russell

      1. Table of Contents
      2. Editor’s Notes
      3. Discussion Questions
      4. Thought Experiments
      5. Bibliography
      6. How to Cite This Page
      7. Attribution

   2. No, You’re Not Entitled to Your Opinion — Patrick Stokes

      Gurinder Purewal

      1. Table of Contents
      2. Discussion Questions
      3. Bibliography
      4. How to Cite This Page

   3. The Argument Clinic — Monty Python

      1. Table of Contents
      2. Editor’s Notes
      3. Video
      4. Discussion Questions
      5. Bibliography
      6. How to Cite This Page

   4. Socrates and the Beginnings of Western Philosophy (470–399 BCE)

      1. Table of Contents
      2. Editor’s Notes
      3. Discussion Questions
      4. Thought Experiments
      5. Bibliography
      6. How to Cite This Page

   5. Plato on Reality

      1. Table of Contents
      2. Editor’s Notes
      3. Discussion Questions
      4. Bibliography
      5. How to Cite This Page

   6. Relativism, Virtue, and Happiness (1): "Why Be Moral?" — Plato

      1. Table of Contents
      2. Editor’s Notes
      3. Discussion Questions
      4. Bibliography
      5. How to Cite This Page

   7. Relativism, Virtue, and Happiness (2): Plato's Republic (Book II)

      1. Table of Contents
      2. Editor’s Notes
      3. Discussion Questions
      4. Bibliography
      5. How to Cite This Page

   8. Relativism, Virtue, and Happiness (3): Custom is King — Herodotus

      1. Table of Contents
      2. Editor’s Notes
      3. Discussion Questions
      4. Thought Experiments
      5. Bibliography
      6. How to Cite This Page
      7. Attribution

   9. Plato on Love

      1. Table of Contents
      2. Editor’s Notes
      3. Reading
      4. Discussion Questions
      5. Bibliography
      6. How to Cite This Page

   10. Aristotle on the Goal of Human Life (484-347 BCE)

       1. Table of Contents
       2. Editor’s Notes
       3. Discussion Questions
       4. Thought Experiments
       5. Bibliography
       6. How to Cite This Page
       7. Attribution

   11. Scientific Revolution: Reason, Method, and Faith (1637-1670) — René Descartes

       1. Table of Contents
       2. Editor’s Notes
       3. Discussion Questions
       4. Bibliography
       5. How to Cite This Page

   12. The Enlightenment: Empiricism, Knowledge, and Probabilities (1685-1776) — Blaise Pascal

       1. Table of Contents
       2. Editor’s Notes
       3. Discussion Questions
       4. Bibliography
       5. How to Cite This Page

   13. The Enlightenment: Empiricism, Knowledge, and Probabilities (1685-1776) — David Hume

       1. Table of Contents
       2. Editor’s Notes
       3. Discussion Questions
       4. Bibliography
       5. How to Cite This Page

   14. The Enlightenment: Politics and Human Nature (1651-1688) — Thomas Hobbes

       1. Table of Contents
       2. Editor’s Notes
       3. Discussion Questions
       4. Thought Experiment
       5. Bibliography
       6. How to Cite This Page
       7. Attribution

   15. The Enlightenment: Freedom, Determinism, and the Self (1685–1776) — Pierre Laplace

       1. Table of Contents
       2. Editor’s Notes
       3. Chapter II. Concerning Probability.
       4. Discussion Questions
       5. Bibliography
       6. How to Cite This Page

   16. The Enlightenment: Morals and Politics (1712–1797) — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

       1. Table of Contents
       2. Editor’s Notes
       3. Discussion Questions
       4. Bibliography
       5. How to Cite This Page

   17. The Enlightenment: Morals and Politics (1712–1797) — Mary Wollstonecraft

       1. Table of Contents
       2. Editor’s Notes
       3. Discussion Questions
       4. Bibliography
       5. How to Cite This Page
10. Course Readings: Enlightenment to Modern

    1. The Second Sex — Simone de Beauvoir

       1. Table of Contents
       2. Editor’s Notes
       3. Reading
       4. Discussion Questions
       5. Bibliography
       6. How to Cite This Page

    2. How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

       1. Table of Contents
       2. Editor’s Notes
       3. Reading
       4. Discussion Questions
       5. Bibliography
       6. How to Cite This Page

    3. Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery — Quobna Ottobah Cugoano

       1. Table of Contents
       2. Editor’s Notes
       3. Reading
       4. Discussion Questions
       5. Bibliography
       6. How to Cite This Page

    4. Notes from the Underground — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

       1. Table of Contents
       2. Editor’s Notes
       3. Discussion Questions
       4. Bibliography
       5. How to Cite This Page

    5. Preface to the Critique of Pure Reason — Immanuel Kant

       1. Table of Contents
       2. Editor’s Notes
       3. Discussion Questions
       4. Bibliography
       5. How to Cite This Page

    6. Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Intent — Immanuel Kant

       1. Table of Contents
       2. Editor’s Notes
       3. Reading
       4. Discussion Questions
       5. Bibliography
       6. How to Cite This Page

    7. Absolute Idealism: Reasons in History — G.W.F. Hegel

       1. Table of Contents
       2. Editor’s Notes
       3. Reading
       4. Discussion Questions
       5. Bibliography
       6. How to Cite This Page

    8. On the Death of God — Friedrich Nietzsche

       1. Table of Contents
       2. Editor’s Notes
       3. Discussion Questions
       4. Bibliography
       5. How to Cite This Page

    9. Fear and Trembling — Søren Kierkegaard

       1. Table of Contents
       2. Editor’s Notes
       3. Preparation
       4. Discussion Questions
       5. Bibliography
       6. How to Cite This Page

    10. The Sickness Unto Death — Søren Kierkegaard

        1. Table of Contents
        2. Editor’s Notes
        3. Reading
        4. Discussion Questions
        5. Bibliography
        6. How to Cite This Page

    11. Individual Freedom — John Stuart Mill

        1. Table of Contents
        2. Editor’s Notes
        3. Discussion Questions
        4. Bibliography
        5. How to Cite This Page

    12. Class Struggle and History: The Communist Manifesto — Marx and Engels

        1. Table of Contents
        2. Editor’s Notes
        3. Discussion Questions
        4. Bibliography
        5. How to Cite This Page

    13. Introduction to the Philosophy of History — G.W.F. Hegel

        1. Table of Contents
        2. Editor’s Notes
        3. Reading
        4. Discussion Questions
        5. Bibliography
        6. How to Cite This Page

    14. Appearance and Reality — Bertrand Russell

        1. Table of Contents
        2. Editor’s Notes
        3. Discussion Questions
        4. Bibliography
        5. How to Cite This Page

    15. The Meaning of Utilitarianism — John Stuart Mill

        1. Table of Contents
        2. Editor’s Notes
        3. Discussion Questions
        4. Bibliography
        5. How to Cite This Page

    16. Existentialism: Confronting Nothingness (1) — Jean Paul Satre

        1. Table of Contents
        2. Editor’s Notes
        3. Reading
        4. Discussion Questions
        5. Bibliography
        6. How to Cite This Page

    17. Existentialism: Confronting Nothingness (2) — Albert Camus

        1. Table of Contents
        2. Editor’s Notes
        3. Reading
        4. Discussion Questions
        5. Bibliography
        6. How to Cite This Page

    18. On The Equality of Women — John Stuart Mill

        1. Table of Contents
        2. Editor’s Notes
        3. The Subjection of Women
        4. Discussion Questions
        5. Bibliography
        6. How to Cite This Page

    19. The Sovereignty of Indigenous Peoples’ Bodies — Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

        1. Table of Contents
        2. Editor’s Notes
        3. Reading
        4. Discussion Questions
        5. Bibliography
        6. How to Cite This Page

    20. Women and Writing: A Room of One's Own — Virginia Woolf

        1. Table of Contents
        2. Editor’s Notes
        3. Reading
        4. Discussion Questions
        5. Bibliography
        6. How to Cite This Page

    21. Fathers and Sons — Turgenev Ivan Sergeyevich

        1. Table of Contents
        2. Editor’s Notes
        3. Discussion Questions
        4. Bibliography
        5. How to Cite This Page

11. Version History

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