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By way of analogy: What philosophy is -- What philosophy is not: Formal definition: Things to consider in the definition: Eastern philosophy: Buddhism: Brief biography -- The four noble truths -- The eightfold path: The relevance of Buddhism in the 21st century: Buddhism today -- Educational system -- Size of family -- Media: The philosophy of yoga: Brief history of yoga --The nature of yoga meditation: Selected sutras: The promise of yoga meditation: The Confucian analects: Brief biography -- Some Confucian teachings: Analects: 4:2 -- Analects: 4:15 -- Analects: 5:11 -- Analects: 6:28 -- Analects: 12:2 -- Analects: 12:5 -- Analects: 14:36 -- Analects: 14:45 -- Analects: 15:2: The Great Learning, the Doctrine of the Mean, and the Confucian Commonwealth: The Great Learning -- Doctrine of the Mean -- The Confucian Commonwealth: Meng-Zi: social reformist and educator: Brief biography -- Meng-Zi as a social reformist -- Meng-Zi as an educator: Che'ng Hao and neo-confucianism: Brief biography -- The virtue of human heartedness -- Cheng'Hao on reason -- Cheng'Hao on happiness -- Cheng'Hao on personal cultivation: Rabindranath Tagore on salvation and evil: Brief biography -- Salvation: The way to be saved: Evil: Filipino philosophy: Zeus Salazar on kaluluwa and gihawa: The Christian-Filipino concept: Virgilio Enriquez and human interaction: Meaning and food -- Kapwa -- Katarungan: Grace Odal and the shape of Filipino conciousness -- Fr. Roque Ferriols, S.J. and pagbigkas ng meron: Magdanas, magmasid, and kumilatis: "Ang Pilipino kung mangatwiran: pagpapahayag at batayan" -- Precision of language" Components of thinking -- Dr. Florentino Timbreza and pagkatao: Filipino aesthetics: Christianity and Filipino art (1565-1898) -- American and Filipino art (1898-1945) -- Post-war Filipino art (1945-1950) -- Martial law and Filipino art (1972-1986): Concepts on Filipino value system: Filipino values and ethics -- Intersubjective values -- Values are historical -- Values and culture -- Value ranking and gambling as culture: Church and gambling -- State and gambling: Ethical reform: beyond Filipino consciousness in F. Sionil Jose's My Brother, My Executioner: The need for ethical reform -- Beyond Filipino consciousness: Western philosophy: Pre-soratic philosophy: The Eleatic philosophers: Anaxagoras -- Empedocles -- Four elements of the kosmos -- Identity of love and strife -- Empedocles on God -- Zeno: Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: Brief biography -- Critique of Pure Reason -- Types of judgement -- The three sciences: Immanuel Kant's Perpetual Peace: Reason over weapon -- Nature of peace -- Perpetual Peace -- Moral transformation: Soren Kierkegaard's Repetition: Brief biography -- repetition and recollection -- Psychological versus religious -- Western metaphysics is recollection -- Misuse of language -- Memory and the grave -- Poetic memory: The philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche: Brief biography -- The Birth of Tragedy -- Friedrich Nietzsche and Richard Wagner -- The Will to Power: Martin Heidegger's politics and ideology: Brief biography -- Political influences -- Martin Heidegger and Edmund Husserl -- Martin Heidegger and nazism -- People, mission, destiny: an ideology -- People and growth -- The German spiritual regeneration -- Materialism against inwardness -- The nature of inner collection -- The platonic leadership -- The English and German ways -- Self-sacrifice: the German spiritual mission -- The people over the individual -- Technology and nihilism -- Volkisch totalitarianism: Maurice Merleau-Ponty's "Yogi and the Proletarian": Brief biography -- General philosophy -- "Yogi and the Proletarian" -- Revolution ad terror -- The historic mission of the proletariat -- The nature of revolution -- Yogi and humanism: Karol Wojtyla's philosophy of The Acting Person: Brief biography -- The Acting Person -- Subjectivity and the irreducible man -- The essence of morality -- Subject and community as forms of metaphysics -- Conscience as action -- Participation and fulfillment -- Society and community -- The 'I-you' and 'we' patterns: Karol Wojtyla's integration: The nature of integration -- Self-possession an self-governance -- The person's integration in the action -- Integration and man's psychosomatic unity -- The soma and the psyche -- Emotivity and reactivity: Michel Foucault's power and knowledge: Brief biography -- Confession: a means to conquer -- Pleasure and truth -- Sexual act and the Greeks -- Social institution: source of power -- Sex and power relations: Jacques Derrida's deconstruction and Politics of Friendship: Brief biography -- Language, meaning, and representation -- The silence -- The supplement -- Differance and difference -- Fixation of ideas -- On Nietzsche -- On Heidegger -- Politics of Friendship: Paul Ricoeur's The Rule of Metaphor: Brief biography -- General philosophy -- The Rule of Metaphor -- Study number 1: "Between rhetoric and poetics" -- Study number 2: "The decline of rhetoric: tropology" -- Study number 3: "Metaphor and semantics of discourse" -- Study number 4 & 5: "Metaphor and semantics of the word" & "Metaphor and the new rhetoric" -- Study number 6: "The work of resemblance" -- Study number 7: "Metaphor and reference" -- Study number 8: "Metaphor and philosophical discourse": Andrea Dworkin's Pornography: men possessing women: Brief biography -- Pornography defined -- Power -- Men and boys -- Marquis de Sade (1740-1814): Feminism and philosophy: Brief history -- Feminism: the other side of history: Framework of empowerment: Philosophy and feminism -- Communicative action.