Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Appendix A: Main Subjects of Philosophy
§ Epistemology
- Knowledge
- Truth
- Error
§ Metaphysics and Ontology
- Cosmology
- Theology
- Psychology
§ Ethics
- Good and Evil
- Evolution of Ethics
- Disciplines in Ethics
§ Aesthetics
- Art
- Beauty
- Apperception
§ Logic
- Fundamentals
- Correct Forms
- Fallacies
§ Major Subsets
- Scientific
- Political
- Legal
Appendix B: Eternal Questions
There are six main questions that include significant sub questions beneath them. I have tried to give my position on most of the questions in the body of the paper.
1. What is knowledge?
- Skepticism
- Empiricism
- Rationalism
2. Do we have free will?
- Determinism
- Indeterminism
3. What is our personal identity?
- Illusion
- Body
- Soul
- Memory
4. Is there a mind/body dichotomy?
- Dualism
- Physicalism
- Behaviorism
- Identity
- Functionalism
5. Does God exist?
- Faith
- Reason
- Meaning
- Theism
6. What Moral Principles Should We Follow?
- Relativism
- Devine Command
- Utilitarianism
- Duty-Based
- Virtue-Based
Appendix C: Book Resources Used:
A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking
A History of God, Karen Armstrong
A History of Knowledge, Charles Van Doren
A Nation Under God, Krannwitter and Palm
Alexander Hamilton, Ron Chernow
A Primer on Formal Logic, John Cooley
America Alone, Mark Steyn
American Conservatism (An encyclopedia),
Applied Economics, Thomas Sowell
Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell
Blueprint for Action, Thomas Barnett
By Design, Larry Witham
Collapse, Jared Diamond
Constitutional Chaos, Andrew Napolitano
Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant
Emerson, F. I. Carpenter
Emile, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Allan Bloom, Trans.
Encyclopedia Britannica, 1953 Edition
Empire, Niall Ferguson
Ethics in Theory and Practice, Thomas E. Hill
Free to Choose, Milton Friedman
Future Shock, Alvin Toffler
Gödel, Escher, Bach, Douglas Hofstadter
History of Political Philosophy, Third Edition, Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey
Holy Bible, King James Version
How Now Shall We Live, Charles Colson
Ideas of the Great Philosophers, Sahakian and
Sahakian
Imperial Hubris, Michael Scheuer
Introduction to Mathematical Logic, Alonzo Church
Inside The Asylum, Jed Babbin
Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes
Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis
Mind Siege, Tim LaHaye
Objectivism, Leonard Peikoff
On Liberty, J. S. Mill
On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin
Operationalism, Percy Bridgman
Postmodernism, Glen Ward
Power Shift, Alvin Toffler
Programming the Universe, Seth Lloyd
Revolutionary Wealth, Alvin Toffler
Right From the Heart, Phil Valentine
State of Fear, Michael Crichton
The Age of Analysis, Morton White, Editor
The Age of Belief, Anne Fremantle, Editor
The Basic Works of Aristotle, Richard McKeon
The Big Questions, Nils Rauhut
The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom
The Complete Works of Plato, John N. Cooper, Editor
The Concise Conservative Encyclopedia, Brad Minor
The Conservative Mind, Russell Kirk
The Constitution of the United States of America
The Declaration of Independence
The Edge of Evolution, Michael Behe
The Federalist Papers, Hamilton, Madison, and Jay
The Greening of America, Charles Reich
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Gregory Hayes
The Koran, N. J. Dawood, translator
The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Thomas Friedman
The Pentagon’s New Map, Thomas Barnett
The Philosophy of As If, Hans Vaihinger (Source: Public Library)
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam, Robert Spencer
The Prince, Machiavelli
The Republic, Plato
The Science of God, Gerald L. Schroeder
The Science of Good and Evil, Michael Shermer
The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis
The Social Contract, Jean Jacques Rousseau
The Third Wave, Alvin Toffler
The Tocqueville Reader, Edited by Zunz and Kahn
The West’s Last Chance, Tony Blankley
The Will to Believe, William James
The Wisdom of the Ancient Greeks, Steven Stavropoulos
Thomas Jefferson, Basic Writings
Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll
War, and Anti-War, Alvin Toffler
Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary
Who Needs God? Harold Kushner
Winning the Future, Newt Gingrich
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