A HISTORY OF THE QUEST FOR PHILOSOPHICAL CLARITY FROM DESCARTES TO WITTGENSTEIN: We Can Only Understand What We Ourselves Have Made -- Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; I. The Quest of Rene Descartes; II. The Quest of John Locke; III. The Quest of George Berkeley; IV. The Quest of David Hume; V. The Quest of Immanuel Kant; VI. The Quest of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; VII. The Quest of Friedrich Nietzsche; VIII. The Quest of Martin Heidegger; IX. The Quest of Jean-Paul Sartre; X. The Quest of Ludwig Johan Wittgenstein; Conclusion; Chronology
Summary
This work examines the philosophical positions of the canonical thinkers of the Western tradition from Descartes to Wittgenstein. It argues that philosophical discourse becomes confused whenever it has no explicit semantic basis
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-270) and index
