CONTENTS

Foreword

JAY L. GARFIELD

Preface

1  A Manifesto for Multicultural Philosophy

Why Multicultural Philosophy?

A Second-Best Approach

The Quality Argument

Essentialist Ethnocentrism

The History of Philosophical Ethnocentrism

Avoiding Intellectual Imperialism

Where Do We Go from Here?

2  Traditions in Dialogue

Metaphysics

Political Philosophy

Ethics

Weakness of Will

Other Voices

3  Trump’s Philosophers

Building Racial Walls in American Politics

Building Walls to Protect Chinese Civilization

Building Walls to Protect Western Civilization

Jericho

4  Welders and Philosophers

Philosophy and Occupational Training

Philosophy and Democratic Citizenship

Philosophy’s Value to Civilization

5  The Way of Confucius and Socrates

Philosophy’s Special Role Among the Humanities

So What Is Philosophy?

Recovering the Way of Confucius and Socrates

Notes

Index