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  • ISBN-10: 1554813840
  • ISBN-13: 9781554813841
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Life Examined is an anthology of carefully edited readings designed to serve as an introduction to many of the fundamental concepts of ethical and socio-political thought. It includes primary sources from a variety of traditions, with selections that range chronologically from ancient times through to the present day. These readings have been thoughtfully selected, edited, and contextualized to provide students with opportunities to sharpen their capacities for critical and theoretical reflection. The book begins with three key texts that frame the historical discourse. Subsequent chapters are organized around ethical themes and theoretical questions that have animated debates throughout the ages, including the nature of practical rationality, scientific reasoning, wisdom, the law, equality, power, violence, and identity.



This ambitious and unique anthology includes carefully curated readings on a wide range of ethical, social, political, and scientific themes, taken from a variety of traditions and time periods.

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Life Examined comprises an astoundingly wide range of material, appropriate not only for a variety of introductory philosophy courses but also for intermediate and more advanced courses in everything from ethics and economics to political theory and social criticism. The admirably diverse and well balanced selection includes readings by authors from Siddhartha Gautama to Naomi Klein, representing various disciplines and eras, numerous countries and continents, different cultures and languages, and widely differing value systems and moral perspectives. This is an ideal textbook, and a resource that readers will want to return to for years to come. Jeff Mitscherling, University of Guelph

This anthology will help students to escape the horizons of their own settled ways of life by presenting them with a diversity of historical, cultural, political, and philosophical perspectives. The selections are drawn from Western and Eastern philosophical traditions as well as indigenous and radical voices deeply critical of the canon and the values it champions. At the same time, the selections are not fashionably eclectic but chosen with clear philosophical purpose, concisely explained in the overview essays by the editors which begin each chapter. The text should stand out in a very crowded field. Jeff Noonan, University of Windsor

Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction 1(10)
UNIT I SELF-EXAMINATION, INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE
Chapter 1 Ethical Crises, Self-examination, and Citizenship
11(1)
1.1 Introduction
12(5)
1.2 Plato (427--347 BCE)
17(31)
1.2.1 Apology of Socrates, Defense Speech (17a--35d)
23(12)
1.2.2 Apology of Socrates, Sentencing Speech (35e--38b)
35(2)
1.2.3 Apology of Socrates, Departing Speech (38c--42a)
37(2)
1.2.4 Crito
39(9)
1.3 Immanuel Kant (1724--1804)
48(6)
"What Is Enlightenment?"
51(3)
1.4 Naomi Klein (1970--)
54(23)
From This Changes Everything
56(21)
1.5 Review Questions
77(1)
1.6 Further Reading
77(4)
UNIT II RATIONALITY, KNOWLEDGE, AND NORMATIVE INQUIRY
Chapter 2 Critical Judgement, Scientific Reasoning, and Modes of Argumentation
81(1)
2.1 Introduction
82(7)
2.2 Plato (427--347 BCE)
89(9)
From Meno (81e--86b)
91(7)
2.3 Aristotle (384--322 BCE)
98(6)
2.3.1 From Metaphysics
99(2)
2.3.2 From Physics
101(1)
2.3.3 From Posterior Analytics
102(2)
2.4 Francis Bacon (1561--1626)
104(5)
From Novum Organum (The New Organon)
105(4)
2.5 Galileo Galilei (1564--1642)
109(11)
2.5.1 From The Assayer
110(5)
2.5.2 From "Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina"
115(5)
2.6 Isaac Newton (1643--1727)
120(10)
From Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy)
121(9)
2.7 Charles Darwin (1809--1882)
130(9)
From The Origin of Species
131(8)
2.8 Svante Arrhenius (1859--1927)
139(3)
From "On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air upon the Temperature of the Ground"
140(2)
2.9 Albert Einstein (1879--1955)
142(7)
From The Meaning of Relativity
143(6)
2.10 Karl Popper (1904--1994)
149(5)
From "The Logic and Evolution of Scientific Theory"
150(4)
2.11 Thomas Kuhn (1922--1996)
154(10)
From The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
155(9)
2.12 Review Questions
164(1)
2.13 Further Reading
165(2)
Chapter 3 Wisdom, Enlightenment, and the Uncertainty of Human Life
167(1)
3.1 Introduction
167(6)
3.2 Siddhartha Gautama (563--483 BCE, Buddhism)
173(6)
3.2.1 "First Sermon at Benares"
174(1)
3.2.2 "The Synopsis of Truth"
175(1)
3.2.3 "The Fool"
176(1)
3.2.4 "The Wise Man"
177(1)
3.2.5 "The Path"
178(1)
3.3 Confucius (551--478 BCE)
179(3)
From The Analects
179(3)
3.4 Solomon (tenth century BCE)
182(2)
From Proverbs
182(2)
3.5 Aristotle (384--322 BCE)
184(4)
From Nicomachean Ethics, Books I and VI
185(3)
3.6 Cleanthes (331--232 BCE, Stoicism)
188(2)
"Hymn to Zeus"
189(1)
3.7 Epicurus (341--271 BCE)
190(3)
"Letter to Menoeceus"
191(2)
3.8 Sextus Empiricus (160--210, Skepticism)
193(2)
From Against the Ethicists
194(1)
3.9 St. Thomas Aquinas (1225--1274)
195(8)
3.9.1 From Summa Theologiae
196(4)
3.9.2 From Summa Contra Gentiles
200(3)
3.10 Zar'a Yaqob (1599--1692)
203(3)
From Treatise of Zar'a Yaqob
203(3)
3.11 David Hume (1711--1776)
206(5)
From A Treatise of Human Nature
206(5)
3.12 Edmund Burke (1729--1797)
211(5)
From Reflections on the Revolution in France
211(5)
3.13 Friedrich Nietzsche (1844--1900)
216(5)
From Joyful Wisdom
217(4)
3.14 Albert Camus (1913--1960)
221(5)
From The Myth of Sisyphus
221(5)
3.15 Review Questions
226(1)
3.16 Further Reading
227(2)
Chapter 4 Laws, Rules, and Duties
229(1)
4.1 Introduction
230(4)
4.2 Confucius (551--478 BCE)
234(1)
From The Analects
235(1)
4.3 Herodotus (490--425 BCE)
235(1)
From The History of Herodotus, Book 3.38
236(1)
4.4 Skepticism
236(5)
4.4.1 Sextus Empiricus (160--210 CE), from Outlines of Pyrrhonism
237(3)
4.4.2 Diogenes Laertius (3rd century CE), from "Life of Pyrrho"
240(1)
4.4.3 Philo Judaeus (30 BCE--45 CE), from On Drunkenness
240(1)
4.5 St. Thomas Aquinas (1225--1274)
241(11)
From Summa Theologiae
242(10)
4.6 Thomas Hobbes (1588--1679)
252(9)
From Leviathan
252(9)
4.7 Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brede et de Montesquieu (1689--1755)
261(9)
From The Spirit of the Laws
262(8)
4.8 Immanuel Kant (1724--1804)
270(8)
From Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals
271(7)
4.9 Edmund Burke (1729--1797)
278(9)
From Reflections on the Revolution in France
278(9)
4.10 Friedrich Nietzsche (1844--1900)
287(8)
4.10.1 From Human, All Too Human
288(1)
4.10.2 From The Antichrist
289(1)
4.10.3 From Beyond Good and Evil (from Ch. 9: What Is Noble?)
289(6)
4.10.4 From Joyful Wisdom
295(1)
4.11 From Nuremberg Laws (1935, German Legislation)
295(3)
4.12 From UN Declaration of Human Rights (1948, United Nations Proclamation)
298(4)
4.13 Martin Luther King Jr. (1929--1968)
302(9)
From "Letter from the Birmingham City Jail"
303(8)
4.14 Review Questions
311(1)
4.15 Further Reading
312(1)
Chapter 5 Property, Equality, and Economics
313(1)
5.1 Introduction
313(6)
5.2 Aristotle (384--322 BCE)
319(5)
From Politics I
320(4)
5.3 John Locke (1632--1704)
324(7)
From Second Treatise on Government
325(6)
5.4 Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712--1778)
331(12)
From A Discourse upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality among Mankind
332(11)
5.5 Adam Smith (1723--1790)
343(7)
From The Wealth of Nations
344(6)
5.6 Alexis de Tocqueville (1805--1859)
350(10)
From Democracy in America
351(9)
5.7 Karl Marx (1818--1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820--1893)
360(18)
5.7.1 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
361(12)
5.7.2 Karl Marx, Kapital: A Critique of Political Economy
373(5)
5.8 David Harvey (1935--)
378(13)
From A Brief History of Neoliberalism
379(12)
5.9 Review Questions
391(1)
5.10 Further Reading
392(3)
UNIT III POWER, VIOLENCE, AND POLITICAL ETHICS
Chapter 6 Propaganda and Power
395(1)
6.1 Introduction
395(3)
6.2 Confucius (551--478 BCE)
398(2)
From The Analects
399(1)
6.3 Plato (427--347 BCE)
400(7)
6.3.1 From Gorgias
400(5)
6.3.2 From Phaedrus
405(2)
6.4 Aristotle (384--322 BCE)
407(4)
From Rhetoric
407(4)
6.5 Niccolo Machiavelli (1469--1527)
411(11)
From The Prince
412(10)
6.6 John Stuart Mill (1806--1873)
422(7)
From On Liberty
423(6)
6.7 Michel Foucault (1926--1984)
429(9)
From Discipline and Punish
430(8)
6.8 Edward S. Herman (1925--2017) and Noam Chomsky (1928--)
438(19)
From Manufacturing Consent
439(18)
6.9 Gerald Taiaiake Alfred (1964--)
457(10)
From Peace, Power, Righteousness
458(9)
6.10 Review Questions
467(1)
6.11 Further Reading
468(1)
Chapter 7 Violence and Civility
469(1)
7.1 Introduction
469(3)
7.2 Thucydides (c. 460--c. 400 BCE)
472(11)
From The Peloponnesian War (Melian and Mitylenian Dialogues)
473(10)
7.3 St. Thomas Aquinas (1225--1274)
483(3)
Summa Theologiae, Question
40. War: Is Some Kind of War Lawful?
484(2)
7.4 Friedrich Nietzsche (1844--1900)
486(13)
From On the Genealogy of Morals
487(12)
7.5 Sigmund Freud (1856--1939)
499(10)
From Civilization and Its Discontents
500(9)
7.6 Heinrich Himmler (1900--1945)
509(5)
From A Speech at Posen, October 1943
510(4)
7.7 Hannah Arendt (1906--1975)
514(8)
From Eichmann in Jerusalem
515(7)
7.8 Frantz Fanon (1925--1961)
522(4)
From Wretched of the Earth, "Concerning Violence"
523(3)
7.9 Philip Zimbardo (1933--)
526(13)
From The Lucifer Effect
527(12)
7.10 Review Questions
539(1)
7.11 Further Reading
540(1)
Chapter 8 Political Identity and Human Nature
541(1)
8.1 Introduction
542(5)
8.2 Stoicism
547(3)
8.2.1 Epictetus (55--135 CE), from Discourses 2
548(1)
8.2.2 Hierocles (2nd century CE), Fragments Quoted by Stobaeus
549(1)
8.3 Mary Wollstonecraft (1759--1797)
550(7)
From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
551(6)
8.4 Toussaint L'Ouverture (1743--1803)
557(13)
8.4.1 Jean-Bertrand Aristide, "Introduction," The Haitian Revolution: Toussaint L'Ouverture
558(6)
8.4.2 Letters (3, 9, 13, 20)
564(6)
8.5 Sojourner Truth (1797--1883)
570(2)
Speech to the 1851 Women's Convention
571(1)
8.6 John Stuart Mill (1806--1873)
572(8)
From On Liberty
573(7)
8.7 Edward Said (1935--2003)
580(8)
From Orientalism, Ch. 1: "Knowing the Oriental"
581(7)
8.8 Bell hooks (1952--)
588(8)
From Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
589(7)
8.9 Glen Coulthard (1974--)
596(14)
From Red Skin, White Masks
597(13)
8.10 Murray Bookchin (1921--2006)
610(5)
From Post-Scarcity Anarchism
611(4)
8.11 Nelson Mandela (1918--2013)
615(11)
From South African Trial Transcripts (1962), "Black Man in a White Man's Court"
616(10)
8.12 Review Questions
626(1)
8.13 Further Reading
627(2)
Appendix: Timeline of Authors and Figures 629(2)
Permissions Acknowledgements 631
Nick Garside, Jonathan Lavery, and Charles Wells teach at Wilfrid Laurier University, Brantford.