Life Examined: Foundational Themes in Ethical and Socio-Political Thought (Paperback)

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· ISBN : 9781554813841
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· 출판일 : 2019-08-30

Acknowledgements
Introduction

UNIT I: SELF-EXAMINATION, INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE

Chapter 1: Ethical Crises, Self-examination, and Citizenship

• 1.1 Introduction
• 1.2 Plato (427–347 BCE)
  • 1.2.1 Apology of Socrates, Defense Speech (17a–35d)
  • 1.2.2 Apology of Socrates, Sentencing Speech (35e–38b)
  • 1.2.3 Apology of Socrates, Departing Speech (38c–42a)
  • 1.2.4 Crito
• 1.3 Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)
  • “What Is Enlightenment?”
• 1.4 Naomi Klein (1970–)
  • from This Changes Everything
• 1.5 Review Questions
• 1.6 Further Reading

UNIT II: RATIONALITY, KNOWLEDGE, AND NORMATIVE INQUIRY

Chapter 2: Critical Judgement, Scientific Reasoning, and Modes of Argumentation

• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.2 Plato (427–347 BCE)
  • from Meno (81e–86b)
• 2.3 Aristotle (384–322 BCE)
  • 2.3.1 from Metaphysics
  • 2.3.2 from Physics
  • 2.3.3 from Posterior Analytics
• 2.4 Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
  • from Novum Organum (The New Organon)
• 2.5 Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)
  • 2.5.1 from The Assayer
  • 2.5.2 from “Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina”
• 2.6 Isaac Newton (1643–1727)
  • from Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy)
• 2.7 Charles Darwin (1809–1882)
  • from The Origin of Species
• 2.8 Svante Arrhenius (1859–1927)
  • from “On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground”
• 2.9 Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
  • from The Meaning of Relativity
• 2.10 Karl Popper (1904–1994)
  • from “The Logic and Evolution of Scientific Theory”
• 2.11 Thomas Kuhn (1922–1996)
  • from The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
• 2.12 Review Questions
• 2.13 Further Reading

Chapter 3: Wisdom, Enlightenment, and the Uncertainty of Human Life

• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 Siddhartha Gautama (563–483 BCE, Buddhism)
  • 3.2.1 “First Sermon at Benares”
  • 3.2.2 “The Synopsis of Truth”
  • 3.2.3 “The Fool”
  • 3.2.4 “The Wise Man”
  • 3.2.5 “The Path”
• 3.3 Confucius (551–478 BCE)
  • from The Analects
• 3.4 Solomon (tenth century BCE)
  • from Proverbs
• 3.5 Aristotle (384–322 BCE)
  • from Nicomachean Ethics, Books I and VI
• 3.6 Cleanthes (331–232 BCE, Stoicism)
  • “Hymn to Zeus”
• 3.7 Epicurus (341–271 BCE)
  • “Letter to Menoeceus”
• 3.8 Sextus Empiricus (160–210, Skepticism)
  • from Against the Ethicists
• 3.9 St. Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274)
  • x3.9.1 from Summa Theologiae
  • 3.9.2 from Summa Contra Gentiles
• 3.10 Zar’a Yaqob (1599–1692)
  • from Treatise of Zar’a Yaqob
• 3.11 David Hume (1711–1776)
  • from A Treatise of Human Nature
• 3.12 Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
  • from Reflections on the Revolution in France
• 3.13 Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
  • from Joyful Wisdom
• 3.14 Albert Camus (1913–1960)
  • from The Myth of Sisyphus
• 3.15 Review Questions
• 3.16 Further Reading

Chapter 4: Laws, Rules, and Duties

• 4.1 Introduction
• 4.2 Confucius (551–478 BCE)
  • from The Analects
• 4.3 Herodotus (490–425 BCE)
  • from The History of Herodotus, Book 3.38
• 4.4 Skepticism
  • 4.4.1 Sextus Empiricus (160–210 CE), from Outlines of Pyrrhonism
  • 4.4.2 Diogenes Laertius (3rd century CE), from “Life of Pyrrho”
  • 4.4.3 Philo Judaeus (30 BCE–45 CE), from On Drunkenness
• 4.5 St. Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274)
  • from Summa Theologiae
• 4.6 Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)
  • from Leviathan
• 4.7 Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (1689–1755)
  • from The Spirit of the Laws
• 4.8 Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)
  • from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals
• 4.9 Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
  • from Reflections on the Revolution in France
• 4.10 Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
  • 4.10.1 from Human, All Too Human
  • 4.10.2 from The Antichrist
  • 4.10.3 from Beyond Good and Evil (from Ch. 9: What Is Noble?)
  • 4.10.4 from Joyful Wisdom
• 4.11 From Nuremberg Laws (1935, German Legislation)
• 4.12 From UN Declaration of Human Rights (1948, United Nations Proclamation)
• 4.13 Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968)
  • from “Letter from the Birmingham City Jail”
• 4.14 Review Questions
• 4.15 Further Reading

Chapter 5: Property, Equality, and Economics

• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 Aristotle (384–322 BCE)
  • from Politics I
• 5.3 John Locke (1632–1704)
  • from Second Treatise on Government
• 5.4 Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
  • from A Discourse upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality among Mankind
• 5.5 Adam Smith (1723–1790)
  • from The Wealth of Nations
• 5.6 Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)
  • from Democracy in America
• 5.7 Karl Marx (1818–1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820–1893)
  • 5.7.1 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
  • 5.7.2 Karl Marx, Kapital: A Critique of Political Economy
• 5.8 David Harvey (1935–)
  • from A Brief History of Neoliberalism
• 5.9 Review Questions
• 5.10 Further Reading

UNIT III: POWER, VIOLENCE, AND POLITICAL ETHICS

Chapter 6: Propaganda and Power

• 6.1 Introduction
• 6.2 Confucius (551–478 BCE)
  • from The Analects
• 6.3 Plato (427–347 BCE)
  • 6.3.1 from Gorgias
  • 6.3.2 from Phaedrus
• 6.4 Aristotle (384–322 BCE)
  • from Rhetoric
• 6.5 Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527)
  • from The Prince
• 6.6 John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)
  • from On Liberty
• 6.7 Michel Foucault (1926–1984)
  • from Discipline and Punish
• 6.8 Edward S. Herman (1925–2017) and Noam Chomsky (1928–)
  • from Manufacturing Consent
• 6.9 Gerald Taiaiake Alfred (1964–)
  • from Peace, Power, Righteousness
• 6.10 Review Questions
• 6.11 Further Reading

Chapter 7: Violence and Civility

• 7.1 Introduction
• 7.2 Thucydides (c. 460–c. 400 BCE)
  • from The Peloponnesian War (Melian and Mitylenian Dialogues)
• 7.3 St. Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274)
  • Summa Theologiae, Question 40. War: Is Some Kind of War Lawful?
• 7.4 Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
  • from On the Genealogy of Morals
• 7.5 Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)
  • from Civilization and Its Discontents
• 7.6 Heinrich Himmler (1900–1945)
  • from A Speech at Posen, October 1943
• 7.7 Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)
  • from Eichmann in Jerusalem
• 7.8 Frantz Fanon (1925–1961)
  • from Wretched of the Earth, “Concerning Violence”
• 7.9 Philip Zimbardo (1933–)
  • from The Lucifer Effect
• 7.10 Review Questions
• 7.11 Further Reading

Chapter 8: Political Identity and Human Nature

• 8.1 Introduction
• 8.2 Stoicism
  • 8.2.1 Epictetus (55–135 CE), from Discourses 2
  • 8.2.2 Hierocles (2nd century CE), Fragments Quoted by Stobaeus
• 8.3 Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)
  • from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
• 8.4 Toussaint L’Ouverture (1743–1803)
  • 8.4.1 Jean-Bertrand Aristide, “Introduction,” The Haitian Revolution: Toussaint L’Ouverture
  • 8.4.2 Letters (3, 9, 13, 20)
• 8.5 Sojourner Truth (1797–1883)
  • Speech to the 1851 Women’s Convention
• 8.6 John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)
  • from On Liberty
• 8.7 Edward Said (1935–2003)
  • from Orientalism, Ch. 1: “Knowing the Oriental”
• 8.8 bell hooks (1952–)
  • from Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
• 8.9 Glen Coulthard (1974–)
  • from Red Skin, White Masks
• 8.10 Murray Bookchin (1921–2006)
  • from Post-Scarcity Anarchism
• 8.11 Nelson Mandela (1918–2013)
  • from South African Trial Transcripts (1962), “Black Man in a White Man’s Court”
• 8.12 Review Questions
• 8.13 Further Reading

Appendix: Timeline of Authors and Figures

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