1 Setting Forth
2 Life on the Planet Unphilosophos
3 Thales and the Beginning of Philosophy
4 Heraclitus: Breaking the Code of Reality
5 Parmenides: What Is That Mysterious X Stuff?
6 Zeno and the Magical Illusion of Motion
7 Socrates in the Euthyphro: Grappling with Holiness
8 Socrates in the Apology: The Philosopher on Trial
9 Socrates in the Crito: The Philosopher in Prison
10 Plato's Metaphysics: Divine Forms
11 Plato's Epistemology: Remembering What You Didn't Know You Knew
12 Plato's Ethics: The Riddle of the Loved Tyrant and the Hated Philosopher
13 Aristotle's Metaphysics and Epistemology: The Mind of the Father of Science
14 Aristotle's Ethics: Discovering Life's Purpose
15 Epicurus: Life's Purpose is Wise Pleasure
16 Epictetus: Life's Purpose is Virtuous Indifference
17 How to Refute Atheists St. Anselm
18 Five Ways to Prove God's Existence St. Thomas Aquinas
19 Descartes: How to Destroy Skepticism
20 Prisoners in the Mind's Vault John Locke
21 Inside God's Mind George Berkeley
22 How to Destroy Certainty about the World, Self, and Mind David Hume
23 How to Destroy Certainty about Science, God, and Absolute Moral Values David Hume
24 A New Model of the Mind Immanuel Kant
25 Immanuel Kant Versus John Stuart Mill: How to Make Moral Choices
26 The Prophet of God's Death Friedrich Nietzsche
27 A Modern Reader Jean-Paul Sartre, "Existentialism Is a Humanism"
The Myth of Sisyphus Albert Camus
The Second Sex Simone de Beauvoir
"Do We Survive Death?" Bertrand Russell
"A Dialogue on Wittgenstein's Work" Brian Magee and John Searle
Language, Truth, and Logic A. J. Ayer
What Is Pragmatism? William James
"The Leap Beyond Patriarchal Religion" Mary Daly
Appendix: Wisdom Skills