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The story of philosophy /

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : DK Pub., 1998.Edition: 1st American edDescription: 240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 078943511X
  • 9780789435118
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 190 21
LOC classification:
  • B74 .M24 1998
Contents:
Introduction. An invitation to philosophy -- The Greeks and their world. Before Socrates ; Socrates ; Plato ; Aristotle ; The Cynics ; The Sceptics ; The Epicureans ; The Stoics -- Christianity and philosophy. Saint Augustine ; Medieval philosophy -- The beginnings of modern science. Copernicus ; Newton ; Machiavelli ; Francis Bacon ; Hobbes -- The great rationalists. Descartes ; Spinoza ; Leibniz -- The great empiricists. Locke ; Berkeley ; Hume ; Burke -- Revolutionary French thinkers. Voltaire ; Diderot ; Rousseau -- A golden century of German philosophy. Kant ; Schopenhauer ; Some comparisons of East and West ; Ficht ; Schelling ; Hegel ; Marx ; Nietzsche -- Democracy and philosophy. The Utilitarians ; The American Pragmatists -- 20th century philosophy. Frege and modern logic ; Russell and analytic philosophy ; Wittgenstein and linguistic philosophy ; Existentialism ; Bergson and recent French philosophy ; Popper ; The future of philosophy.
Summary: "The essential guide to the history of western philosophy."
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Vol info Status Barcode
NF NF Chamberlin Free Public Library Nonfiction 190 MAG (Browse shelf(Opens below)) B74 Available 34517000206477

Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-233) and index.

Introduction. An invitation to philosophy -- The Greeks and their world. Before Socrates ; Socrates ; Plato ; Aristotle ; The Cynics ; The Sceptics ; The Epicureans ; The Stoics -- Christianity and philosophy. Saint Augustine ; Medieval philosophy -- The beginnings of modern science. Copernicus ; Newton ; Machiavelli ; Francis Bacon ; Hobbes -- The great rationalists. Descartes ; Spinoza ; Leibniz -- The great empiricists. Locke ; Berkeley ; Hume ; Burke -- Revolutionary French thinkers. Voltaire ; Diderot ; Rousseau -- A golden century of German philosophy. Kant ; Schopenhauer ; Some comparisons of East and West ; Ficht ; Schelling ; Hegel ; Marx ; Nietzsche -- Democracy and philosophy. The Utilitarians ; The American Pragmatists -- 20th century philosophy. Frege and modern logic ; Russell and analytic philosophy ; Wittgenstein and linguistic philosophy ; Existentialism ; Bergson and recent French philosophy ; Popper ; The future of philosophy.

"The essential guide to the history of western philosophy."

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