Shadows
on the Wall:
Reflections of Ideas East and West
1. Wisdom and Dialectic
2. Understanding in Context
3. Plato's Socrates: The Apology:
The Conscience of a Community and the Jowett
translation of The Apology by Plato
4. Plato's Socrates: The Crito:
Customs (Nomoi) as Parents and Adversaries and the
Jowett translation of The Crito by Plato
5. Plato: The Republic: The Ideas
as Blueprints
6. Plato: Republic: Order and
Justice: The Divided Line: The Cave Allegory
7. Aristotle: Physics and Metaphysics
8. Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics
9. Epicurus: Philosophy as
Pain Avoidance
10. Stoicism: Epictetus: Freedom
in the Walled City of the Mind
11. The Medieval View of the
World: Sin and Salvation
12. Descartes: Discourse on
Method: Mind and Body
13. Hobbes: The State of Nature:
The "Nature" of the State
14. Kant: How Do We Know that
We Know What We Know
15. Kant: The Ethical Imperative:
The Good Will and Respect for Others
16. Kierkegaard: Truth Is Subjectivity
and Beware of the Crowd
17. Nietzsche: The Overcoming
of Western Philosophy, Morality, and Science
18. Dewey: Experience, Community,
and Communication
19. Buddhism: The Life and Message
of Gautama
20. Confucius: Humanity, Character,
and Altruism
21. Taoism: Nature and Human
Nature as Spontaneous Emergence
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though still in process, are the intellectual property of Gordon L.
Ziniewicz. They may be downloaded and freely distributed in electronic
form only, provided no alterations are made to the original text. One
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