| Description |
xiii,365 pages ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
I. Philosophy in its Infancy. The Milesians. Xenophanes. Heraclitus. The School of Parmenides. Empedocles. The Atomists -- II. The Athens of Socrates. The Athenian Empire. Anaxagoras. The Sophists. Socrates. The Euthyphro. The Crito. The Phaedo -- III. The Philosophy of Plato. Life and Works. The Theory of Ideas. Plato's Republic. The Theaetetus and the Sophist -- IV. The System of Aristotle. Plato's Pupil, Alexander's Teacher. The Foundation of Logic. The Theory of Drama. Virtue and Happiness. Wisdom and Understanding. Politics. Science and Explanation. Words and Things. Motion and Change. Soul, Sense, and Intellect. Metaphysics -- V. Greek Philosophy after Aristotle. The Hellenistic Era. Epicureanism. Stoicism. Scepticism. Rome and its Empire. Jesus of Nazareth. Christianity and Gnosticism. Neo-Platonism -- VI. Early Christian Philosophy. Arianism and Orthodoxy. The Theology of Incarnation. The Life of Augustine. The City of God. Boethius and Philoponus -- VII. Early Medieval Philosophy. John the Scot. Alkindi and Avicenna. The Feudal System. Saint Anselm. Abelard and Heloise. Abelard's Logic. Abelard's Ethics. Averroes. Maimonides -- VIII. Philosophy in the Thirteenth Century. An Age of Innovation. Saint Bonaventure. Thirteenth-Century Logic. Aquinas' Life and Works. Aquinas' Natural Theology. Matter, Form, Substance, and Accident. Aquinas on Essence and Existence. Aquinas' Philosophy of Mind. Aquinas' Moral Philosophy -- IX. Oxford Philosophers. The Fourteenth-Century University. Duns Scotus. Ockham's Logic of Language. Ockham's Political Theory. The Oxford Calculators. John Wyclif -- X. Renaissance Philosophy. The Renaissance. Free-will: Rome vs. Louvain. Renaissance Platonism. Machiavelli. More's Utopia. The Reformation. Post-Reformation Philosophy. Bruno and Galileo. Francis Bacon -- XI. The Age of Descartes. The Wars of Religion. The Life of Descartes. The Doubt and the Cogito. The Essence of Mind. God, Mind, and Body. The Material World -- XII. English Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century. The Empiricism of Thomas Hobbes. Hobbes' Political Philosophy. The Political Theory of Locke. Locke on Ideas and Qualities. Substances and Persons -- XIII. Continental Philosophy in the Age of Louis XIV. Blaise Pascal. Spinoza and Malebranche. Leibniz -- XIV. British Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century. Berkeley. Hume's Philosophy of Mind. Hume on Causation. Reid and Common Sense -- XV. The Enlightenment. The Philosophes. Rousseau. Revolution and Romanticism -- XVI. The Critical Philosophy of Kant. Kant's Copernican Revolution. The Transcendental Aesthetic. The Deduction of Categories. The System of Principles. The Paralogisms of Pure Reason. The Antinomies of Pure Reason. The Critique of Natural Theology. Kant's Moral Philosophy -- XVII. German Idealism and Materialism. Fichte. Hegel. Marx and the Young Hegelians. Capitalism and its Discontents -- XVIII. The Utilitarians. Jeremy Bentham. The Utilitarianism of J. S. Mill. Mill's Logic -- XIX. Three Nineteenth-Century Philosophers. Schopenhauer. Kierkegaard. Nietzsche -- XX. Three Modern Masters. Charles Darwin. John Henry Newman. Sigmund Freud -- XXI. Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics. Frege's Logic. Frege's Logicism. Frege's Philosophy of Logic. Russell's Paradox. Russell's Theory of Descriptions. Logical Analysis -- XXII. The Philosophy of Wittgenstein. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Logical Positivism. Philosophical Investigations |
| Summary |
"Spanning 2,500 years of thought, this volume provides essential coverage of the most influential thinkers of the Western world, including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Jesus, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Berkeley, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Mill, Nietzsche, Darwin, Freud, Frege, Russell and Wittgenstein, amongst many others." "Unrivalled in its authority and range, the book is ideal for anyone with an interest in Western thought."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-355) and index |
| Subject |
Philosophy -- History.
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Philosophy, Western -- History
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Philosophy -- history.
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| LC no. |
98020921 |
| ISBN |
063118791X (cased) |
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0631201327 (paperback) |
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