Philosophy and philosophers : an introduction to western philosophy
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Philosophy and philosophers : an introduction to western philosophy
UCL Press, 1993
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-332) and index
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Description
"Philosophy and philosophers" is an introduction to Western philosophy aimed directly at those who are unfamiliar with the nature of philosophy and its history. As a survey of the ideas of history's major thinkers and of the central areas of philosophy, the book should be of value as a source of reference to both student and general reader alike. Organized around the main schools of thought, and ranging from ancient Greece through the explosion of ideas in the 17th century to the Enlightenment and the challenge of 20th-century philosophy, each chapter assesses the contribution of a philosopher with particular attention paid to the key areas of the theory of knowledge, the nature of reality and the nature of philosophy itself. An extensive annotated bibliography is included which serves as an invaluable guide to works by and about the philosophers discussed.
Table of Contents
- Pre-Socratic Greek philosophy Pre-Parmenidean philosophers
- Parmenidean philosophers
- Post-Parmenidean philosophers Greek philosophy Plato
- Aristotle Medieval philosophy Augustine
- Aquinas
- Ockham Rationalism Descartes
- Spinoza
- Leibniz Empiricism Locke
- Berkeley
- Hume Transcendental Idealism Kant Later German philosophy Hegel
- Nietzsche Analytical philosophy Russell
- Wittgentstein Phenomenology and existentialism Husserl
- Sartre Logical positivism and falsificationism Ayer
- Popper Linguistic philosophy Wittgenstein Recent philosophy
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