Contents

  1. Introduction

  2. About the Authors

    Gurinder Purewal and Jenna Woodrow

  3. About This Book

    Gurinder Purewal

  4. Acknowledgements

  5. Accessibility

  6. OER Adoption Form

  7. I. How to Read and Write in Philosophy

    1. 1. How to Attend Class

    2. 2. How to Read Philosophy

    3. 3. How to Plan Your Philosophy Paper

    4. 4. How to Write Your Philosophy Paper

    5. 5. How to Cite Your Sources

  8. II. A Primer on Thought Experiments

    1. 6. Thought Experiments

  9. III. Course Readings: Ancient to Enlightenment

    1. 7. On the Value of Philosophy — Bertrand Russell

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

      Gurinder Purewal

    3. 9. The Argument Clinic — Monty Python

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

    5. 11. Plato on Reality

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

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

    8. 14. Plato on Love

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  10. IV. Course Readings: Enlightenment to Modern

    1. 23. The Second Sex — Simone de Beauvoir

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

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

    4. 26. Notes from the Underground — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

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

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

    8. 30. On the Death of God — Friedrich Nietzsche

    9. 31. Fear and Trembling — Søren Kierkegaard

    10. 32. The Sickness Unto Death — Søren Kierkegaard

    11. 33. Individual Freedom — John Stuart Mill

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

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

    14. 36. Appearance and Reality — Bertrand Russell

    15. 37. The Meaning of Utilitarianism — John Stuart Mill

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

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

    18. 40. On The Equality of Women — John Stuart Mill

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

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

    21. 43. Fathers and Sons — Turgenev Ivan Sergeyevich

  11. Version History

  12. TRU Open Education Resource Error Form