Ebook: Does the Center Hold?: An Introduction to Western Philosophy

1. What are we doing in this class? Is philosophy possible? -- 2. Truth is beauty; beauty is truth -- Rationalist epistemology. -- 3. What you see is what you get -- Empiricist epistemology. -- 4. Who's on first; what's on second? Ontology -- 5. Mount Olympus, Mount Moriah, and other godly places -- Philosophy of religion. -- 6. The largest airline in the free world -- Philosophy of freedom. -- 7. Thou shalt become perfected -- Ethics. -- 8. Different strokes for different folks -- Critiques of traditional theories. -- 9. Let them eat cake -- Political and social philosophy -- 10. But is it Art? Philosophy of art.