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Genre/Form: | Textbooks Manuels d'enseignement supérieur |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Norman Melchert |
ISBN: | 9780199999651 0199999651 |
OCLC Number: | 1033415613 |
Notes: | Index. |
Description: | xix, 728, 2, 3, 7, 3, 12 pages : illustrations, cartes ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Before philosophy : myth in Hesiod and Homer -- Philosophy before Socrates -- The Sophists : rhetoric and relativism in Athens -- Socrates : to know oneself -- The trial and death of Socrates -- Plato : knowing the real and the good -- Aristotle : the reality of the world -- Epicureans, Stoics, and Skeptics : happiness for the many -- Jews and Christians : sin, salvation, and love -- Augustine : God and the soul -- Anselm and Aquinas : existence and essence in God and the world -- Moving from medieval to modern -- René Descartes : doubting our way to certainty -- Hobbes, Locke, and Berkeley : materialism and the beginnings of empiricism -- David Hume : unmasking the pretensions of reason -- Immanuel Kant : rehabilitating reason (within strict limits) -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel : taking history seriously -- Kierkegaard and Marx ; two ways to "correct" Hegel -- The utilitarians : moral rules and the happiness of all (including women) -- Friedrich Nietzsche : the value of existence -- The Pragmatists : thought and action -- Ludwig Wittgenstein : linguistic analysis and ordinary language -- Martin Heidegger : the meaning of being -- Simone de Beauvoir : existentialist, feminist -- Postmodernism : Derrida, Foucault, and Rorty -- Physical realism and the mind : Quine, Dennett, Searle, Nagel, Jackson, and Chalmers. |
Responsibility: | Norman Melchert Professor Emeritus, Lehigh University. |
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"This is certainly one of the best introductory texts on the market, possibly the best. For students who will take only one course in philosophy, this is the book that I would recommend; it will give them an excellent overview of more than two thousand years of philosophical debate."--Michael Henry, St. John's University Read more...
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