Introduction
- General
- Author Biography
- How To Use This Site – Part I – Finding your way around the site.
- How to Use This Site – Part II – Asking questions.
- How to Use this Site – Part III – Disclaimers
- Definition of Philosophy
- Why Do Philosophy?
- Practical vs. Academic Philosophy
Philosophy – The Big Picture
- The Fundamental Questions
- The Nature of Reality
- Internal Reality
- Proximate Reality
- Cultural Reality
- Cosmic Reality
- Ultimate Reality
- Ethics – The Philosophy of Human Conduct
- Self-Mastery
- Ethics and Others
- Societal Duty
- Ethics and Ultimate Reality
- Supererogatory Duty
- Summary of The Big Picture
Special Problems
- Good and Evil
- Introduction
- Classifying Goods and Evils
- The Summum Bonum
- Causes of Evil
- Good vs. Evil, Parts I – III
- Synopsis
- God
- Introduction – The Question of God
- Arguments for God’s Existence, Parts I-III
- Arguments against God’s Existence, Parts I-II
- Subjective Belief in God
- Religion
- Relationship with God, Parts I-III
- Agnosticism and Atheism
- A Personal Synthesis – Part I-III
- God’s Characteristics
- Synopsis of the Question on God
- Body and Soul
- Introduction
- Definition of Soul
- Traditional Conceptions of Soul
- Arguments for and against Soul
- Subjective Warrants for Soul
- Deconstruction of Soul – Parts I-IV
- Reconstruction of Soul – Parts I -III
- Death and Immortality
- Free Will and Determinism
- Teleology
- Suffering
- Certainty
- Summary
The Meaningful Life
- Perspectives
- Biologic
- Pleasure
- Happiness
- Meaningful
- The Four Classic Components
- Ethics
- Purpose
- Contentment
- Connection with the Ultimate Reality
- Internal Consistency
- Examples
- Summary
Traditional Pathways to a Meaningful Life
- Introduction
- Stoicism
- Epicureanism
- Cynicism
- Buddhism
- Empiricism
- Existentialism
- Theological
- Lay Religious
- Monastic
- Common Sense Philosophy
- Summary
Stepwise Process to a Meaningful Life
- Awakening
- Stages
- The Self
- Accidental and Special Purpose
- Achieving Contentment
- Connection with Ultimate Reality
- Cosmic Reality
- Mystical Union
- Summary
Relationships and Philosophy
- Friendship
- Love
- Loneliness
Philosophy for Every Age
Applying Philosophy to Real World Issues
Current Readings – Examples of Practical Philosophical Analysis
APPENDICES
- Top 15 Short Quotes in the Philosophical Literature
- The Philosopher’s Toolbox
- Table of Duties
- Table of Certainty
- Table of Goods and Evils
- Table of Philosophy’s Accomplishments
- Greatest True Stories in Philosophy (and the lessons they teach)
- Greatest Classic Philosophical Books
- Greatest Chapters in Philosophical Books
- Additional Philosophical Quotes for Contemplation
- Directory of Philosophers
- Bibliography
- Other Websites
- Glossary