Readings from the Roots of Wisdom A Multicultural Reader

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ISBN: 9780534561116 | 053456111X
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 3/5/2001

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The anthology is a collection of readings from a wide range of philosophical and cultural perspectives. Interesting and reader-friendly selections were purposely selected so as to be accessible to a wide range of readers. While designed to accompany Mitchell's ROOTS OF WISDOM, it can also be used with any other introductory text.

Preface
Student Introduction
PART I: METAPHYSICS
1. Why Philosophy? Plato, Book VIII of the Republic
Aristophanes, Clouds
Innocent Onyewuenyi, Is There an African Philosophy? Rigoberta MenchÃº, I Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
The Tao Te Ching, Chapters 1, 17, 22, 34, 48, and 79. 2
Reality and Being
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
Edwin Abbot, Flatland
Lancinay Keita, The African Philosophical Tradition
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Buddhist Scriptures, Lives of the Buddha
3. Human Nature
Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism as a Humanism
The Bible, Chapters 1 and 2 of Genesis
Elizabeth V
Spelman, Aristotle and the Politicization of the Soul
Ifeanyi A
Menkiti, Person and Community in Traditional African Thought
James P
Hogan, Code of the Life Maker
4. Philosophy and God
Augustine of Hippo, The City of God
Benjamin Ewuku Oguah, African and Western Philosophy: A Comparative Study
al-Ghazali, The Incoherence of the Philosophers
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland
Herman Hesse, Siddhartha
PART II: EPISTEMOLOGY
5. Knowledge and the Mind
Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method
Alison M
Jaggar, Love and Knowledge: Emotion in Feminist Epistemology
Sor Juana InÃ©s de la Cruz, La Respuesta (The Response)
Moses Maimonides, The Guide of the Perplexed
Shunryu Suzuki, Beyond Consciousness
6. The Search for Truth
David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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Scott Momaday, The Man Made of Words
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Mwanahewa, African Logical Heritage and Contemporary Life
Hildegard of Bingen, Letters to Bernard of Clairvaux and the Mainz Prelates
7. Aesthetic Experience
Plato, Book X of The Republic
Aristotle, Poetics [6,8,9,14]
Eugen Herrigel, Zen and the Art of Archery
Chinua Achebe, Arrow of God
Susanne K
Langer, The Cultural Importance of Art
PART III: AXIOLOGY
8. Political Philosophy
John Locke, Treatise of Civil Government
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls
Bart Kosko, The Fuzzy Social Contract
Malcolm X, The Speeches of Malcolm X at Harvard
Nicholas D
Kristof, The End of the Golden Road
9. Social Philosophy
John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism
Ignacio EllacurÃa, S

Human Rights in a Divided Society
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women
Audre Lorde, Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining the Difference
Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
10. Ethics
Immanual Kant, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Ethics
Gloria AnzaldÃºa, Borderlands/La Frontera
Rita Manning, Speaking from the Heart
Kwasi Wiredu, The Moral Foundations of an African Culture
Benjamin Hoff, The Te of Piglet

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Readings from the Roots of Wisdom A Multicultural Reader

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