Contents for Issues in Philosophy

Prof. Zachary Starr

1. Walter Kaufmann, Faith of a Heretic, 15-38.

2. Hebrew Bible, Book of Genesis, Chapters 1 and 2 (King James Version).

3. Hebrew Bible, Book of Genesis, Chapter 1 (Anchor Bible).

4. Akkadian Creation Epic, Enumah Elish, excerpts.

5. Hesiod, Theogony, 116-133.

6. Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time, Chapter 1.

7. “Two Kinds of Truth,” excerpt from Robert C. Solomon, Introducing Philosophy (8^th edition).

8. Outline of Plato’s Phaedo.

9. Plato, The Republic, Book IV (Chapter XIII) and Book X.

10. Aristotle, De Anima, Book Two, Chapter 1.

11. Saadya ben Joseph, Book of Doctrines and Beliefs, 25-47, 94-105, 141-149, 181-191.

12. Baruch Spinoza, Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, Preface, Chapters 7-8, 13-14.

13. Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason, 5-13, 20-21, 104-113.

14. “On Abortion, It’s the Bible of Ambiguity,” The New York Times, November 13, 2005.

15. Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy, Chapter XV (“The Value of Philosophy”).