Philosophy: The Examined Life

G.M. Brown, Ph. D.

Table of Contents

• Ruth Benedict, The Diversity Thesis
• Edward Westermarck, Custom, Morality and Sympathy
• Louis P. Pojman, An Argument Against Ethical Relativism
• Plato, The Myth of the Ring
• Friedrich Nietzsche, An Argument for Ethical Egoism
• Milton Friedman , The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits
• John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism
• Immanuel Kant, The Categorical Imperative
• Plato, Crito
• Thomas Hobbes, Escaping the State of Nature
• John Rawls, Two Principles of Justice
• Martin Luther King, Letter from Birmingham Jail
• Anselm of Canterbury, The Ontological Argument
• Immanuel Kant, A Critique of the Ontological Argument
• Thomas Aquinas, The Five Ways
• Samuel Clarke, A Modern Formulation of the Cosmological Argument
• William Paley, The Watch and the Watchmaker
• Blaise Pascal, The Wager
• W.K. Clifford, The Ethics of Belief
• William James, The Will to Believe
• David Hume, The Argument from Evil
• G.W. Leibnitz, Theodicy: A Defense of Theism
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Rebellion
• St. Augustine, Divine Foreknowledge and Human Free Will
• St. Thomas Aquinas, Is God's Power Limited?
• Baron Holbach, Of the System of Man's Free Agency
• David Hume, Of Liberty and Necessity
• William James, The Dilemma of Determinism
• C.A. Campbell, Libertarianism
• John Locke, The Prince and the Cobbler
• Thomas Reid, The Brave Young Officer Objection
• Joseph Butler, The Circularity Objection
• David Hume, The Bundle Theory
• Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy
• John Locke, The Representational Theory of Knowledge
• George Berkeley, An Idealist Theory of Knowledge
• David Hume, Skepticism and Psychology