A Brief History of Philosophy From Socrates to Derrida

by Johnston, Derek

• ISBN13: 9780826490209
• ISBN10: 0826490204
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-08-09
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

A fun, concise and attractive introduction to a fascinating and challenging subject. This is the ideal book for teenagers and students coming to philosophy for the first time, or indeed for anyone who just doesn't know where to start. The book examines

Table of Contents

List of figures	viii
Introduction	1	(127)
1 Socrates and Plato: the Fire and the Sun	7	(19)
2 Aristotle: the Spirit of Rational Enquiry	26	(17)
3 Epicurus and Zeno: How to Lead a Good Life	43	(13)
4 Thomas Aquinas: the Unified Interpretation of Reality	56	(14)
5 Rene Descartes: Systematic Doubt as a Philosophical Method	70	(12)
6 Locke and Montesquieu: the Liberal State	82	(14)
7 Benedict de Spinoza: Rigorous Thought and Severe Conclusions	96	(10)
8 David Hume: Empirical Verification	106	(11)
9 Immanuel Kant: the Critique of Reason	117	(11)
10 Karl Marx: the March of History	128	(13)
11 Friedrich Nietzsche: the Will to Power	141	(10)
12 Ludwig Wittgenstein: Language and Reality	151	(11)
13 Martin Heidegger: We Have Forgotten Being	162	(11)
14 Jean-Paul Sartre: Existentialist Anguish	173	(11)
15 Jacques Derrida: Deconstructing Reality	184	(13)
Conclusion	197	(8)
Further Reading	205	(2)
Index	207