READINGS IN THE COURSE PACKET

(1) From the Samkhya-karika (Verses on Analysis of Nature) by Isvarakrshna

(2) From W.D. Ross, The Right and the Good

(3) Nyaya-Vaisesika Epistemic Logic and Ontology (intro by S. Phillips) with selection from the Nyaya-sutra

(4) Carvaka skepticism (intro) and Carvaka section of Madhava's Compendium of Philosophy

(5) Early Buddhism (intro) and selections from the Sermons of the Buddha in the Pali Canon and the commentator Buddhaghosa

(6) Fom the Nyaya-sutra (NyS 3.1.1-3.1.3)

(7) From Plato, Republic 435b-c, 437b-d, & 439c-442b

(8) Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, para. 293.

(9) Mahayana Wisdom Literature (intro) with selection from the Large Sutra on Perfect Wisdom

(10) From Shantideva, Bodhicaryavatara

(11) Jainism (intro) and selection from the Acaranga Sutra

(12) Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, (in the original page numbering) pp. 61 (first paragraph only), 80-81, 88-91, 95-99, & 100-02.

(13) From Confucius, The Great Learning

(14) From J. S. Mill, On Liberty

(15) Taoism (intro) with selection from Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

(16) From the Chuang Tzu

(17) Zera Yacob (intro) with selection from Zera Yacob, The Treatise of Zera Yacob

(18) Isaiah Berlin, "Notes on Prejudice"

(19) From Anselm, Prosologion

(20) Aristotelian Rational Theology: From Aristotle, Proclus, The Elements of Theology, and Ibn Sina (Avacinna), On the Nature of God

(21) From Aurobindo, The Life Divine

(22) From Karl Marx, Economic and Political Manuscripts of 1844

(23) From Carl Cohen, Four Systems

(24) Amartya Sen, "Goods and People"

(25) From the editors of The Ecologist, Whose Common Future: Reclaiming the Commons, ch. 1

(26) J.D. Callicut and Thomas Overholt, "Traditional American Indian Attitudes Towards Nature"

(27) From Rosemary Radford Reuther, Gaia and God

(28) Ramachandra Guha, "Radical Environmental and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique"

(29) From John Rawls, A Theory of Justice

(30) From L. Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, paras. 80-81 & 412-16.

(31) From Albert Camus, "The Myth of Sysyphus"

(32) From J.N. Mohanty, Classical Indian Philosophy (on aesthetics)

(33) From Oscar Wilde, "The Decay of Lying"

(34) From D.T. Suzuki, Zen and Japanese Culture