Table Of Contents

 

I. The Roots of Philosophy

1. So This Is Philosophy
2. The Dilemma of Modern Philosophy
3. The Beginning of Philosophy
4. The Golden Age
5. The End of the Golden Age
6. The Spread of the Dominator Model
And the Development of Monotheism
8. The Shift from Matriarchy to Patriarchy
9. Once more then: What is Philosophy?
10. Looking even Further Back in Time: The Myth of Origin
11. An Egyptian Myth of Origin
12. Greek Mythology
13. The Story of Chaos in Some Non-Western Philosophies
14. Mathematics, the Mother of all Sciences.
15. From Isaac Newton to Albert Einstein: The Contemporary Confusion
16. Democritus, the Foundation for Atomism
17. Why Is Atomism Important in Our Discussion about Domination?
18. Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans
19. The Sophists
20. Partnership to the Rescue - Co-creating a Vision for the Future of Humanity

II. The Greek Masters

1. From Plato’s Apology
2. Socrates, The Father of All Philosophers

3. Plato

A. The Allegory of the Cave
B. The Divided Line
C. Plato’s Social Philosophy: A Blueprint for an Ideal State
D. The Perfect State
E. And Here Comes the Music

4. Aristotle

A. Man and State, Aristotle's Theory of Happiness
B. Don’t Worry, Be Happy
C. Teleology
D. A First Lesson on Logic
E. On Language
F. Some More on Logic
G. The Four Causes and the Role of Art
H. A Feminist Critique of Aristotle

III. Medieval Philosophy

1. Augustine
2. The End of the Middle Ages and the Rise of Science
3. Thomas Aquinas
4. The Five Proofs of God

IV. Renaissance and Reformation

A. The Renaissance
B. The Rise of the Middle Class
C. The Reformation

V. The Age of Reason

1. René Descartes
2. Isaac Newton
3. Spinoza
4. Empiricism versus Rationalism
5. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
A. The European Enlightenment
B. Kant’s Ethics: A Categorical Imperative
C. Kant’s Plea for World Peace

VI. The Post Kantian Era And Modernity

1. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
2. Existentialism
A. Sören Kierkegaard
B. Jean Paul Sartre
3. Pragmatism
4. Marxism
5. Neo-Marxism
6. Lessons Learned at the Frankfurt School
7. Nietzsche: My Fear, my Trembling, and my Exaltation
8. The Feminist Voice?

VII. Transcendental Perspectivism

1. Transcendental Perspectivism
2. A Perspectivist Manifesto
4. Toward a Universalist Future?

VIII. Appendix

1. Is the Unexamined Life Really Not Worth Living?
2. Compassion and the Wisdom of Nature
3. Toward a Naturalistic Foundation of Community.