Title: Philosophical Conversations: A Concise Historical Introduction
Abstract: 1. BEFORE PHILOSOPHY: MYTH IN HESIOD AND HOMER Hesiod: War among the Gods Homer: Heroes, Gods, and Excellence 2. PHILOSOPHY BEFORE SOCRATES Thales: The One as Water Anaximander: The One as the Boundless Xenophanes: The Gods as Fictions SKETCHES: PYTHAGORAS Heraclitus: Oneness in the Logos PROFILE: THE TAO Parmenides: Only the One Zeno: The Paradoxes of Common Sense Atomism: The One and the Many Reconciled 3. SOCRATES AND THE SOPHISTS: RHETORIC, RELATIVISM, AND THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH The Sophists Physis and Nomos Athens and Sparta at War Socrates 4. THE TRIAL AND DEATH OF SOCRATES Translator's Introduction The Dialogue Commentary and Questions Crito's Visit Socrates' Death 5. PLATO: KNOWING THE REAL AND THE GOOD Knowledge and Opinion The World and the Forms The Love of Wisdom The Soul Morality The State Problems with the Forms 6. ARISTOTLE: THE REALITY OF THE WORLD Aristotle and Plato Logic and Knowledge The World First Philosophy The Soul The Good Life INTERLUDE 1: THE SKEPTICS INTERLUDE 2: THE CHRISTIANS Background Jesus The Meaning of Jesus 7. AUGUSTINE: GOD AND THE SOUL Wisdom, Happiness, and God God and the World Human Nature and Its Corruption Human Nature and Its Restoration The Two Cities Christians and Philosophers 8. ANSELM AND AQUINAS: ARGUING FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD Anselm: On That Than Which No Greater Can Be Conceived Thomas Aquinas: Rethinking Aristotle SKETCHES: AVICENNA (IBN SINA) SKETCHES: AVERROES (IBN RUSHD) SKETCHES: MAIMONIDES (MOSES BEN MAIMON) INTERLUDE 3: MOVING FROM MEDIEVAL TO MODERN The World God Made for Us The Humanists Reforming the Church Skeptical Thoughts Revived Copernicus to Kepler to Galileo: The Great Triple Play 9. RENE DESCARTES: DOUBTING OUR WAY TO CERTAINTY The Method Meditations: Commentary and Questions What Has Descartes Done? 10. JOHN LOCKE: THE BEGINNINGS OF EMPIRICISM PROFILE: THOMAS HOBBES SKETCHES: GEORGE BERKELEY 11. DAVID HUME: UNMASKING THE PRETENSIONS OF REASON How Newton Did It To Be the Newton of Human Nature The Theory of Ideas The Association of Ideas Causation: The Very Idea The Disappearing Self SKETCHES: THE BUDDHA Rescuing Human Freedom Is It Reasonable to Believe in God? Understanding Morality Is Hume a Skeptic? 12. IMMANUEL KANT: REHABILITATING REASON (WITHIN STRICT LIMITS) Critique Judgments Geometry, Mathematics, Space, and Time Common Sense, Science, and the A Priori Categories SKETCHES: BARUCH SPINOZA Phenomena and Noumena SKETCHES: GOTTFRIED WILHELM VON LEIBNIZ Reasoning and the Ideas of Metaphysics: God, World, and Soul Reason and Morality SKETCHES: JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU 13. HEGEL AND MARX: HISTORY AND REVOLUTION Hegel: Spirit, History, and Freedom SKETCHES: ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Marx: Beyond Alienation and Exploitation 14. KIERKEGAARD AND NIETZSCHE: CHRISTIAN AND ANTI-CHRISTIAN Soren Kierkegaard: On Individual Existence Friedrich Nietzsche: The Value of Existence PROFILE: IRIS MURDOCH 15. THE UTILITARIANS: MORAL RULES AND THE HAPPINESS OF ALL (INCLUDING WOMEN) The Classic Utilitarians The Rights of Women 16. THE PRAGMATISTS Charles Sanders Peirce John Dewey SKETCHES: WILLIAM JAMES 17. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN: LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS AND ORDINARY LANGUAGE Language and Its Logic SKETCHES: BERTRAND RUSSELL PROFILE: THE LOGICAL POSITIVISTS The Continuity of Wittgenstein's Thought PROFILE: ZEN Our Groundless Certainty 18. THE EXISTENTIALISTS: HEIDEGGER, SARTRE, DE BEAUVOIR Martin Heidegger: The Meaning of Being PROFILE: JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Simone de Beauvoir: The Priority of Freedom 19. POSTMODERNISM AND PHYSICAL REALISM: DERRIDA, RORTY, QUINE, AND DENNETT Postmodernism PROFILE: RICHARD RORTY Physical Realism
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-03-06
Language: en
Type: book
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