Words of Wisdom: Introduction to Philosophy

by Jody Ondich

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Words of Wisdom can come from anyone. In this text we discuss topics ranging from "Are Humans good by nature?" to "Is there a God?" to "Do I have the right to my own opinion?" Philosophy is the study of wisdom, and can emerge in our conversations in social media, in school, around the family dinner table, and even in the car. The text uses materials that are 2,500 years old, and materials that were in the news this year. Wise people come in all shapes and types, and from every culture on earth.

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Publisher
Lake Superior College
Subjects
Humanities, Philosophy
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA, as LibreTexts states it. Non-commercial use only.
Who can read
Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. 1: Classics
  7. 1.1: Aesop's Fables
  8. 1.2: Excerpts from Aristotle's "Metaphysics"
  9. 1.3: Plato's "Allegory of the Cave"
  10. 1.4: Aristotle's Ethics and Virtues
  11. 1.5: "The Ring of Gyges" from Plato's Republic
  12. 1.6: Socrates' Dialogue with Euthyphro
  13. 2: Medieval Materials
  14. 2.1: Augustine of Hippo- On the Nature of Good
  15. 2.2: Anselm of Canterbury- Monologion Chapter 1
  16. 2.3: Anselm- Proslogian 2 and 3
  17. 2.4: Aquinas- Summa Theologicae
  18. 2.5: Aquinas- Summa Theologicae Third Article
  19. 2.6: Machiavelli- excerpts from "The Prince"
  20. 2.7: Rumi
  21. 2.8: Omar Khayyam
  22. 2.9: Excerpts from the letters of Abelard and Héloïse
  23. 3: Spiritual Philosophy and Tales from Across the World
  24. 3.1: From Christianity
  25. 3.2: From Islam
  26. 3.3: Maimonides' "Guide for the Perplexed"
  27. 3.4: 1001 Nights
  28. 3.5: From the Hindu Bhagavad Gita
  29. 3.6: Teachings from Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha
  30. 3.7: Lao Tzu--Daoism
  31. 3.8: North American Tribal Tales
  32. 3.9: African tales
  33. 3.10: Baal Shem Tov
  34. 3.11: Bluebeard
  35. 3.12: From Judaism
  36. 3.13: Kong Fu Tzu
  37. 3.13.1: Kong Fu Tzu/ Confucius
  38. 4: Early Modern Wisdom 1500-1750
  39. 4.1: Rene Descartes
  40. 4.2: Thomas Hobbes
  41. 4.3: Blaise Pascal
  42. 4.4: David Hume
  43. 5: Modern Wisdom
  44. 5.1: Native American Voices
  45. 5.2: JL Mackie
  46. 5.3: Simone de Beauvoir
  47. 5.4: Elizabeth Anscombe
  48. 5.5: Gandhi
  49. 5.6: Dalai Lama
  50. 5.7: Nelson Mandela
  51. 5.8: Martin Luther King Jr
  52. 5.9: Philippa Foot
  53. 5.10: Patrick Stokes
  54. 6: Links to Additional Great Resources
  55. 6.1: Stephen Colbert, from The Colbert Report
  56. 6.2: Ursula LeGuin
  57. 6.3: Kwame Anthony Appiah, from TedTalks
  58. 6.4: Anna Quindlen, from the New York Times
  59. 6.5: Peter Singer, from TedTalks
  60. 6.6: Carol Gilligan
  61. 6.7: Peggy Orenstein
  62. 6.8: Ashey Judd for TedTalks
  63. 6.9: Paul Bloom, for New York Times
  64. 6.10: Elie Wiesel, interview with Bill Moyers
  65. 7: Late Modern Wisdom 1750-1950 CE
  66. 7.1: Ayn Rand
  67. 7.2: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  68. 7.3: Jeremy Bentham
  69. 7.4: John Stuart Mill
  70. 7.5: Immanuel Kant
  71. 7.6: Søren Kierkegaard
  72. 7.7: Friedrich Nietzsche
  73. 7.8: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
  74. 7.9: William James
  75. 7.10: Bertrand Russell--two essays
  76. Back Matter
  77. Index
  78. Glossary
  79. Detailed Licensing