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9780078119095

Philosophy: A Historical Survey with Essential Readings

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    9780078119095

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  • Edition: 9th
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2014-01-22
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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This text brings together Stumpf and Fieser's Socrates to Sartre and Beyond with an updated anthology of readings in one volume. It offers an accessible historical survey of philosophical ideas and a wealth of primary source readings at an excellent value. The text is a comprehensive, historically organized introduction to philosophy which communicates the richness of the discipline and provides the student with a working knowledge of the development of Western philosophy. With a lively and approachable style it covers the principal contributions of Western civilization's most influential philosophers. The chronologically organised reader features a wide selection of readings of both Western philosophy and Eastern philosophy.

Table of Contents

Stumpf

Philosophy: History and Readings, 9e

Part One

ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHY,

Chapter 1 Socrates’s Predecessors

What Is Permanent in Existence?

The Mathematical Basis of All Things

Attempts To Explain Change

The Atomists

Chapter 2 The Sophists and Socrates

The Sophists

Protagoras

Gorgias

Thrasymachus

Socrates

Socrates’s Life

Socrates as a Philosopher

Chapter 3 Plato

Plato’s Life

Theory of Knowledge

Moral Philosophy

Political Philosophy

View of the Cosmos

Chapter 4 Aristotle

Aristotle’s Life

Logic

Metaphysics

The Place of Humans: Physics, Biology, and Psychology

Ethics

Politics

Philosophy of Art

Part Two

HELLENISTIC AND MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY

Chapter 5 Classical Philosophy after Aristotle

Epicureanism

Stoicism

Skepticism

Plotinus

Chapter 6 Augustine

Augustine’s Life

Human Knowledge

God

The Created World

Moral Philosophy

Justice

History and the Two Cities

Chapter 7 Philosophy in the Early Middle Ages

Boethius

Pseudo-Dionysius

Erigena

New Solutions to the Problem of Universals

Anselm’s Ontological Argument

Faith and Reason in Muslim and Jewish Thought

Chapter 8 Aquinas and His Late Medieval Successors

Aquinas’s Life

Philosophy and Theology

Proofs of God’s Existence

Knowledge of God’s Nature

Creation

Morality and Natural Law

The State

Human Nature and Knowledge

Scotus, Ockham, and Eckhart

Part Three

EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY

Chapter 9 Philosophy during the Renaissance

The Closing of the Middle Ages

Humanism and the Italian Renaissance

The Reformation

Skepticism and Faith

The Scientific Revolution

Bacon

Hobbes

Chapter 10 Rationalism on the Continent

Descartes

Spinoza

Leibniz

Chapter 11 Empiricism in Britain

Locke

Berkeley

Hume

Chapter 12 Enlightenment Philosophy

Deism and Atheism

Rousseau

Reid

Part Four

LATE MODERN AND NINETEENTH

CENTURY PHILOSOPHY

Chapter 13 Kant

Kant’s Life

The Shaping of Kant’s Problem

Kant’s Critical Philosophy and His Copernican Revolution

The Structure of Rational Thought

Practical Reason

Aesthetics: The Beautiful

Chapter 14 German Idealism

Kant’s Impact On German Thought Hegel

Schopenhauer

Chapter 15 Utilitarianism and Positivism

Bentham

John Stuart Mill

Comte

Chapter 16 Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche

Kierkegaard

Marx

Nietzsche

Part Five

TWENTIETH CENTURY

AND CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY

Chapter 17 Pragmatism and Process PhilosophyPragmatism

Peirce

James

Dewey

Process Philosophy

Bergson

Whitehead

Chapter 18 Analytic Philosophy

Russell

Russell’s Mission

Logical Atomism

Problems with Logical Atomism

Logical Positivism

Wittgenstein

Austin

Chapter 19 Phenomenology and Existentialism

Husserl

Heidegger

Religious Existentialism

Sartre

Merleau-Ponty

Chapter 20 Recent Philosophy

The Mind-Body Problem

Rorty

Virtue Theory Revisited

Continental Philosophy

Political Philosophy

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