Philosophy : history & problems
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Philosophy : history & problems
McGraw-Hill, 1994
5th ed, International edition
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A combination of two texts - "Socrates to Sartre" (1993) and "Philosophical Problems" (1994), this work offers an introduction to the history of philosopy. Book I presents the author's survey of major ideas and figures in philosopy. Newly added contributions from philosophers Simone de Beauvoir, Richard Rorty and Maurice Merleau-Ponty channel the flow of philosophical controversies and ongoing dialogue into the 20th century. Book II contains many primary source readings, and features new selections from both classical and contemporary writers of philosophy, such as: Bertrand Russell on appearance and reality, Carol Gilligan and Joyce Trebilcot. The writings of David Swenson, A.J. Ayer, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Leo Tolstoy ("My Confession") comprise a new section on human destiny.
Table of Contents
- BOOK I (Socrates to Sartre) I: The Ancient Period: The Shaping of the Philosophic Mind 1. Socrates' Predecessors--Philosophy and Natural Order
- 2. Socrates and the Sophists--The Problems of Truth and Goodness
- 3. Plato
- 4. Aristotle
- S. Classical Philosophy after Aristotle. II: The Medieval Period: The Confluence of Philosophy and Theology 6. St. Augustine's Christian Philosophy
- 7. Philosophy in the Dark Ages--Boethies, Pseudo-Dionysius, Erigena
- 8. Early Statements of Major Problems
- 9. The Apex of Medieval Philosophy--The Scholastic System of St. Thomas Aquinas. III: The Modern Period: Philosophy and the Unfolding World of Science 10. The Renaissance Interlude
- 11. Advocates of the Method of Science--Bacon and Hobbes
- 12. Rationalism on the Continent--Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz
- 13. Empiricism in Britain--Locke, Berkeley, and Hume
- 14. Rousseau--A Romantic in the Age of Reason
- 15. Kant--Critical Mediator between Dogmatism and Skepticism
- 16. Hegel--Absolute Idealism
- 17. Schopenhauer--Prophet of Pessimism
- 18. Comte--The Rise of Positivism in France
- 19. Utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill. IV: The Contemporary Period: The Reshaping of the Philosophic Mind 20. Pragmatism
- 21. Karl Marx--Dialectical Materialism
- 22. Nietzsche
- 23. Two Twentieth-Century Metaphysicians--Bergson and Whitehead
- 24. Analytic Philosophy
- 25. Existentialism. BOOK II: (PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS). {Start here with table of contents from PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS: SELECTED READINGS}.
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