What the Tortoise Taught Us The Story of

According to one account, philosophy began on May 28, 585 BCE, at 3:15 in the afternoon-the exact time when an ancient Greek thinker named Thales confirmed his theory of a solar eclipse. He had observed the movements of the heavens and noticed a regularity that allowed him to predict that darkness would cover the earth at midday.

List of Illustrations	p. ix
The Beginning of Reflection	p. 1
Glimpses of Light: Ancient Philosophy	p. 1
The Unexamined Life is Not Worth Living: Socrates	p. 13
Being Governed by the Mind: Rational Thought	p. 25
Learning is Recollection: Plato	p. 25
The Path of Moderation: Aristotle	p. 37
Accept What You Cannot Change: The Stoics	p. 45
Religious Faith: The Philosophy of Religion	p. 57
The Glorification of God: St. Thomas Aquinas	p. 58
Love One Another: Christian Agape	p. 69
Personal Identity and Human Nature: Metaphysics	p. 81
I Think, Therefore I Am: René Descartes	p. 81
Beasts, Angels, and Machines: Hobbes and Rousseau	p. 95
How Things Seem and What They are: Epistemology	p. 109
Thinking Makes it So: Bishop Berkeley	p. 113
Seeing is Believing: David Hume	p. 120
The Purpose of Living: Ethics	p. 131
Doing the Right Thing: Immanuel Kant	p. 131
The Greatest Happiness Principle: John Stuart Mill	p. 142
Investing Life with Meaning: Jean-Paul Sartre	p. 152
Contemporary Trends	p. 161
Fiddling with Words While the World Burns: Linguistic Philosophy	p. 162
The Voices of Women: Feminist Perspectives	p. 168
Current Moral Issues: Abortion and Racism	p. 177
Notes	p. 191
Selected Bibliography	p. 195
Index	p. 201
About the Author	p. 205
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