Philosophical problems : selected readings in ethics, religion, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysics / Samuel Enoch Stumpf. [print]

PART 1 : ethics -- Basing ethics on human nature / Aristotle -- Stoic doctrine of acquiescence / Epictetus -- Love of God as the highest good / Saint Augustine -- The categorical imperative / Immanuel Kant -- The utilitarian calculus of pain and pleasure / John Stuart Mill -- An existential perspective on ethics / Friedrich Nietzsche -- Is the will free? / William James -- A positivist polemic / A.J. Ayer

PART 2 : religion -- The ontological argument / Saint Anselm -- Proving God's existence from experience / Saint Thomas Aquinas -- Evil and the proof from design / David Hume -- Whether the proof of God's existence is possible / Immanuel Kant -- Existentialism and religious subjectivity -- The anatomy of belief / John Wisdom

PART 3 : Political philosophy -- The law of man and the law of God / Sophocles -- The natural basis of society / Aristotle -- The moral dimension of law / Saint Thomas Aquinas -- Justice in the state and individual / Plato -- Rulers must calculate / Niccolo Machiavelli -- The basis of sovereign authority / Thomas Hobbes -- Natural rights and civil society / John Locke -- The individual and the limits of state power / John Stuart Mill -- The clash of class interests / Karl Marx

PART 4 : theory of knowledge and metaphysics -- The ascent to true knowledge / Plato -- Scepticism and the postponement of certainty / Sextus Empiricus -- Certainty and the limits of doubt / Rene Descartes -- Empiricism and the limits of knowledge / David Hume -- How knowledge is possible / Immanuel Kant -- Pragmatism and the enterprise of knowing / William James -- Matter and space the basis of all things / Lucretius -- Consciousness, not matter, the true reality / George Berkeley -- Vital versus static reality / Henri Bergson -- Materialism and the cause of change: dialectical and historical materialism.

This text brings together Stumpf's SOCRATES TO SARTRE, Fifth Edition (1993) and PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS, Fourth Edition (1994) in one hardcover volume. It offers an accessible, single author survey of philosophical ideas (Book I: SOCRATES TO SARTRE) and a wealth of primary source readings (Book II: PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS) at an excellent value. In this fifth edition, the contributions of contemporary philosophers, Simone de Beauvoir, Richard Rorty, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty are added to the Book I sections. Book II's new additions include Bertrand Russell on appearance and reality, John Hick on the problem of evil, Carol Gilligan on a feminine voice in ethics, Walter Stace on ethical relativism, Simone de Beauvior and Joyce Trebilcot on the relevance of gender in the assignment of roles in society, and David Swenson, A.J. Ayer, and Leo Tolstoy on the question of human destiny. Publisher's site

MLA - CHECK FORMATING BEFORE USE Stumpf, Samuel Enoch. Philosophical Problems: Selected Readings in Ethics, Religion, Political Philosophy, Epistemology, and Metaphysics. United States, McGraw-Hill, 1971.

COPYRIGHT NOT covered - Click this link to request copyright permission:

https://lib.ciu.edu/copyright-request-form