The Great Conversation

Norman Melchert is Selfridge Professor of Philosophy Emeritus and a former Acting Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Lehigh University. He is the author of Who's to Say? A Dialogue on Relativism (1994) and numerous journal articles. David R. Morrow is a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at George Mason University. College. He is the coauthor of A Workbook for Arguments, Second Edition (2015) and numerous papers in applied ethics.

1. BEFORE PHILOSOPHY: MYTH IN HESIOD AND HOMER?
2. PHILOSOPHY BEFORE SOCRATES?
3. APPEARANCE AND REALITY IN ANCIENT INDIA?
4. THE SOPHISTS: RHETORIC AND RELATIVISM IN ATHENS?
5. REASON AND RELATIVISM IN CHINA?
6. SOCRATES: TO KNOW ONESELF??
7. THE TRIAL AND DEATH OF SOCRATES?
8. PLATO: KNOWING THE REAL AND THE GOOD?
9. ARISTOTLE: THE REALITY OF THE WORLD?
10. CONFUCIUS, MENCIUS, AND XUNZI: VIRTUE IN ANCIENT CHINA?
11. EPICUREANS, STOICS, AND SKEPTICS: HAPPINESS FOR THE MANY?
12. JEWS AND CHRISTIANS: SIN, SALVATION, AND LOVE?
13. AUGUSTINE: GOD AND THE SOUL?
14. PHILOSOPHY IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD: THE GREAT CONVERSATION SPREADS OUT?
15. ANSELM AND AQUINAS: EXISTENCE AND ESSENCE IN GOD AND THE WORLD?
16. FROM MEDIEVAL TO MODERN EUROPE?
17. RENÉ DESCARTES: DOUBTING OUR WAY TO CERTAINTY?
18. HOBBES, LOCKE, AND BERKELEY: MATERIALISM AND THE BEGINNINGS OF EMPIRICISM?
19. DAVID HUME: UNMASKING THE PRETENSIONS OF REASON?
20. IMMANUEL KANT: REHABILITATING REASON
(WITHIN STRICT LIMITS)?
21. GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL: TAKING HISTORY SERIOUSLY?
22. KIERKEGAARD AND MARX: TWO WAYS TO