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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Charles Hartshorne |
| ISBN: | 0873956818 9780873956819 0873956826 9780873956826 |
| OCLC Number: | 8667052 |
| Description: | xviii, 393 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | pt. 1. Philosophical achievements of the ancient Greeks: In appreciation of the pre-Socratics -- Lessons from Greek atomism for modern thought -- Plato's near miss: soul as self-moved -- Aristotle's modal view of time and eternity -- Stoics, skeptics, and Greek mystics -- Sketch of Greek ethics and aesthetics -- pt. 2. Between the Greeks and the moderns: Medieval philosophy on general -- What did Anselm discover? -- Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, and others -- pt. 3. Modern (European) philosophers: "The Moses of modern philosophy" -- Spinoza: first of the moderns or last of the medievals? -- The "clearheaded" philosopher -- Hume's metaphysics and its influence -- The neglect of relative predicates in modern philosophy -- Kant's traditionalism -- Schopenhauer's synthesis of East and West: the worst of two worlds -- The unity of opposites in Hegel and Schelling -- Kierkegaard on subjectivity and freedom -- Marxism and metaphysics -- Nietzsche's "Death of God" and deification of causality -- Lotze, Fechner, Cournot, and other nineteenth-century forerunners of process metaphysics -- pt. 4. Recent or contemporary (European) philosophers: Russell and Whitehead: a comparison -- Husserl and Whitehead on the concrete -- Mind and matter in Rhyl, Ayer, and Croce -- Reflections on Wittgenstein -- Karl Popper on Whitehead -- Husserl's most famous (and heretical) disciple -- Sartre: philosopher, novelist, playwright, political writer -- Merleau-Ponty from an Anglo-American perspective. |
| Series Title: | SUNY series in systematic philosophy. |
| Responsibility: | Charles Hartshorne. |
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