The philosophic impulse: a contemporary introduction. Compiled Fred J. Abbate.

The nature of ethical disagreement Charles L. Stevenson -- On moral truth Kai Nielsen -- Beyond good and evil Friedrich Nietzsche -- The problem of free will William James -- Of liberty and necessity David Hume -- From Walden II B. F. Skinner -- Computers and the brain Dean E. Wooldridge -- Love in a machine age Paul We- The new look in Christian ethics Joseph Fletcher -- The lasting sexual relationship Wilhelm Reich -- From End of the road John Barth -- Student morality : from skepticism to dogmatism Arthur Danto -- The limitations of industrial civilization Gabriel Marcel -- The autonomy of technique Jacques Ellul -- The new forms of control Herbert Marcuse -- Alienated labor Karl Marx -- Anomie Emile Durkheim -- The moral element in free enterprise F. A. Hayek -- The white race and its heroes Eldridge Cleaver -- Art without a public Oscar Wilde -- Preface to The picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde -- Censorship of literature Plato -- The sanctity of law : a critique Morris R. Cohen -- Morals and the criminal law Lord Justice Patrick Devlin -- The limits of society's authority John Stuart Mill -- The police and society Paul Chevigny -- Slaves to duty John Badcock -- Civil disobedience Abe Fortas -- Civil disobedience : prerequisite for democracy in mass society Christian Bay -- From The trial of the Catonsville Nine Daniel Berrigan -- On violence J. M. Cameron -- The future of nonviolence Dave Dellinger -- The theoretical charges against violence William R. Marty -- Cain's children Robert Ardrey -- Naked ape or homo sapiens? / John Lewis and Bernard Towers -- The urge to self-destruction Arthur Koestler -- The phenomenology of war Pierre-Joseph Proudhon -- The ache of guilt J. Glenn Gray -- The just war Saint Thomas Aquinas -- The case for Christian pacifism Ernest Fremont Tittle -- The selective conscientious objection cases Justice Thurgood Marshall, Justice William O. Douglas -- The ethical moment in war Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -- The fool hath said, there is no God Saint Anselm -- The coherence of Christian atheism Colin Lyas -- The proof by efficient causes Jacques Maritain -- The cosmological argument Paul Edwards -- The wager Blaise Pascal -- Madness in the spiritual encounter Karl Stern -- Transcendental experience Ronald D. Laing -- Association between drugs and religion Walter Houston Clark -- The dissolution of the absolute Paul M. van Buren -- Suffering John Hick -- Stavrogin's confession Fyodor Dostoyevski -- Beyond nihilism Albert Camus -- Mind without body Rene Descartes -- On life after death Carl G. Jung -- Do we survive death? / Bertrand Russell -- What kind of next world? / H. H. Price -- Our attitude towards death Sigmund Freud -- Of suicide David Hume -- Hell Ian Ramsey -- Wisdom and the contemplative life Aristotle -- Truth is subjectivity Soren Kierkegaard -- Nausea Jean-Paul Sartre -- "Real" / J. L. Austin.

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