While many of the philosophers you are reading about have been dead for hundreds and even thousands of years, their ideas are still very much alive. This section illustrates the ways in which selected philosophic ideas from the chapter are relevant in your life today.
You are invited to think and possibly write about these contemporary applications.
Eastern Religions and Western Culture: Meditation, Vegetarianism, Yoga, Reincarnation
The Teleological Argument: Creation Science vs. Evolution
Religion and the State: Prayer in School?
The Cosmological Argument: The Big Bang and the Nature of Causation
