How to Establish Social Order? Three Early Chinese Answers by Henrique Schneider
Wu-Wei: Acting without Desire by Henrique Schneider
Plato’s Form of the Good by Ryan Jenkins
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave: the Journey Out of Ignorance by Spencer Case
Why be Moral? Plato’s ‘Ring of Gyges’ Thought Experiment by Spencer Case
Plato’s Crito: When should we break the law? by Spencer Case
The Philosophy of Humor: What Makes Something Funny? by Chris A. Kramer
Aristotle on Friendship: What Does It Take to Be a Good Friend? by G. M. Trujillo, Jr.
Aristotle’s Defense of Slavery by Dan Lowe
Virtue Ethics by David Merry
Classical Syllogisms by Timothy Eshing
Is Death Bad? Epicurus and Lucretius on the Fear of Death by Frederik Kaufman
Dharma in Abhidharma Buddhism by Nicholaos Jones
The Buddhist Theory of No-Self (Anātman/Anattā) by Daniel Weltman
Mengzi’s Moral Psychology, Part 1: The Four Moral Sprouts by John Ramsey
Mengzi’s Moral Psychology, Part 2: The Cultivation Analogy by John Ramsey
al-Ghazālī’s Dream Argument for Skepticism by John Ramsey
The Ontological Argument for the Existence of God by Andrew Chapman
Cosmological Arguments for the Existence of God by Thomas Metcalf
Descartes’ Meditations 1-3 and Descartes’ Meditations 4-6 by Marc Bobro
Descartes’ “I think, therefore I am” by Charles Miceli
Pascal’s Wager: A Pragmatic Argument for Belief in God by Liz Jackson
Social Contract Theory by David Antonini
“Nasty, Brutish, and Short”: Thomas Hobbes on Life in the State of Nature by Daniel Weltman
Psychological Approaches to Personal Identity: Do Memories and Consciousness Make Us Who We Are? by Kristin Seemuth Whaley
Mary Astell’s “A Serious Proposal to the Ladies” (1694) by Simone Webb
Rousseau on Human Nature: “Amour de soi” and “Amour propre” by Corey McCabe
Leibniz’s Principle of Sufficient Reason by Marc Bobro
Philosophy of Space and Time: What is Space? by Dan Peterson
Reason is the Slave to the Passions: Hume on Reason vs. Desire by Daniel Weltman
Idealism Pt. 1: Berkeley’s Subjective Idealism by Addison Ellis
Idealism Pt. 2: Kant’s Transcendental Idealism by Addison Ellis
Deontology: Kantian Ethics by Andrew Chapman
Nietzsche and the Death of God by Justin Remhof
Marx’s Conception of Alienation by Dan Lowe
Karl Marx’s Theory of History by Angus Taylor
“Can They Suffer?”: Bentham on our Obligations to Animals by Daniel Weltman
Mill’s Proof of the Principle of Utility by Dale E. Miller
John Stuart Mill on The Good Life: Higher-Quality Pleasures by Dale E. Miller
Is it Wrong to Believe Without Sufficient Evidence? W.K. Clifford’s “The Ethics of Belief” by Spencer Case
Moore’s Proof of an External World: Responding to External World Skepticism by Chris Ranalli
G. E. M. Anscombe’s “Modern Moral Philosophy” by Daniel Weltman
African American Existentialism: DuBois, Locke, Thurman, and King by Anthony Sean Neal
Responding to Morally Flawed Historical Philosophers and Philosophies by Victor Fabian Abundez-Guerra and Nathan Nobis
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