The Philosophy Teaching Library

and we anticipate that this number will only grow with the popularity of the Library, making this a great chance to publish something that will be read by many, many students. If there is a philosophical text that you work on and teach frequently, now is the time to contribute"

We anticipate that, within the next few years, the library will grow past 100+ articles, many of them covering some of the most read texts in philosophy. We wanted to offer this window of opportunity. Several of our pieces already have hundreds of readers,

"Considering that it has only existed for a few months, the Library has been very successful. We currently have 23 pieces up on the site, and those that are in progress will bring us to over 30 entries.

Want Your Work To Be Widely Read? Contribute to the Philosophy Teaching Library (Guest post by Wes Siscoe & Paul Blaschko) This past September, we launched The Philosophy Teaching Library, a new teaching resource for instructors in philosophy, and one that has been covered by the Daily Nous and the American Philosophical ...

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Want Your Work To Be Widely Read? Contribute to the Philosophy Teaching Library

Read about us over at The Philosophers' Cocoon! (link below)

Congratulations to one of our founders and Editor-in-Chief @wessiscoe.bsky.social on the new position!

Can a @notredame.bsky.social academic resource stand the thought of an Ohio State based editor? Only time will tell...

A big thanks for contributing to Tim Smartt, a professor at The University of Notre Dame Australia!

In this reading, we will engage with Descartes’ famous answer to this question—an answer that would have a colossal impact on the future course of Western philosophy.

The central question of Descartes’ Second Meditation is: Can you be certain that any of your beliefs are true? Are there any of your beliefs that shouldn’t be doubted at all?

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*New Article*

Knowing Your Own Mind
Descartes’ Meditations, Meditation 2 (link below)

In this piece we delve into the philosophical reflections on these questions found in Plato’s Phaedo.

We all wonder what happens when we die. Do we simply cease to exist when our bodies perish, or does our existence continue through our souls’ survival in a realm beyond the physical? If there is indeed an afterlife, how can we determine whether we will find happiness there?

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*New Article* by @poetryf.bsky.social

Exploring Immortality in Plato’s Phaedo (link below)

ICYMI: New article on the Allegory of the Cave by Cleveland State professor Dr. Michael Wiitala!

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Thanks to Dr. Adam Piovarchy of the University of Notre Dame Australia!

But being able to do this requires first recognizing the thing we’re pursuing.

In this piece, we’ll consider John Stuart Mill’s answer to these questions. He thought not only that happiness was good, but that it was the only good.

Lots of things make us happy. Eating chocolate. Winning a race. Joking with friends. Being loved. But what do these things all have in common? What even is happiness? The Declaration of Independence famously puts “the pursuit of happiness” front and center as one of our inalienable rights.

*New Article*

Pleasure, Happiness and the Moral Life: Mill’s Utilitarianism, Chapter 2

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ICYMI:

New article on Epictetus’s Enchiridion from Scott Aikin!

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Brought to you by our lead editor, @wessiscoe.bsky.social of Bowling Green State University!

So, you want to live a good life? In this reading, Aristotle argues that the good life isn’t found in pleasure, fame, or wealth, but rather in living a virtuous life. Can that really be true? Read on to find out!

*New article*

The Good Life and How to Live It: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book I

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Should be able to get exactly one ad on X for this

Check out Dr. Scott Aikin’s of Vanderbilt University on Epictetus’s Stoicism!

Want to be invincible? Stoicism promises just that – to make its practitioners invincible, that is, not able to be defeated. By valuing in accord with the fundamental divide, valuing only things up to them, Stoic practitioners will not be defeated by the whims of fate or the designs of others

*New Article*

Stoic Life, Perfection, and Invincibility – Epictetus’s Enchiridion

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This article examines these five arguments in detail and considers what precisely Aquinas meant to demonstrate in each argument, along with their potential scope and limits.

Perfection, and the Argument from Design. As the titles of the arguments suggest, Aquinas uses various observations about motion, causality, design and other phenomena as evidence for the existence of the divine.