Current Issues and Enduring Questions A Guide to Critical Thinking and Argument, with Readings
, by Barnet, Sylvan; Bedau, Hugo- ISBN: 9781457622601 | 1457622602
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 8/23/2013
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The unique collaborative effort of a professor of English and a professor of philosophy, Current Issues and Enduring Questions is an extensive resource for teaching argument, persuasive writing, and rigorous critical thinking. This extraordinarily versatile text and reader continues to address current student interests and trends in argument, research, and writing.Its comprehensive coverage of classic and contemporary approaches to argument includes Aristotelian, Toulmin, and a range of alternative views, including a new chapter on analyzing and writing about arguments in popular culture.
Readings on contemporary controversies (including student loan debt, locavorism, and the boundaries of online privacy) and classical philosophical questions (such as How free is the will of the individual?) are sure to spark student interest and lively discussion and writing, and new e-Pages take advantage of what the Web can do by including videos, speeches, film trailers, and other multimodal arguments.
24 Immigration: What Is To Be Done? David Cole, Five Myths about Immigration
Barry R. Chiswick, The Worker Next DoorJohn Tierney, Angels in AmericaVictor David Hanson, Our Brave New World of ImmigrationCardinal Roger Mahony, Called by God to Help25 Service: A Duty? A Benefit? Or Both, or Perhaps Neither?Barack Obama, Commencement AddressPeter Levine, The Case for "Service"*Thomas E. RicksDave Eggers, Serve or FailPart SixEnduring Questions: Essays, A Story, Poems, and a Play26 What Is the Ideal Society? Thomas More, From Utopia Niccolo Machiavelli, From The Prince Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream W. H. Auden, The Unknown Citizen Langston Hughes, Let America Be America Again Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from OmelasHelen Prejean, Executions are Too Costly, Morally27 How Free Is the Will of the Individual within Society? Thoughts about Free WillPlato, Crito George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant Walter T. Stace, Is Determinism Inconsistent with Free Will? Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail Stanley Milgram, The Perils of Obedience Peter Cave, Man or Sheep?Thomas Hardy, The Man He Killed T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Susan Glaspell, Trifles Mitsuye Yamada, To the Lady28 What Is Happiness? Thoughts about Happiness, Ancient and ModernDaniel Gilbert, Does Fatherhood Make You Happy?Henry David Thoreau, Selections from WaldenDarrin M. McMahon, In Pursuit of Unhappiness Epictetus, from The Handbook Bertrand Russell, The Happy Life The Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler, Inner Contentment C. S. Lewis, We have No "Right to Happiness"Danielle Crittenden, About Love Judy Brady, I Want a Wif Index of Authors and TitlesIndex of Terms *new to this editionThe New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.
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