History of Philosophy, Volume 9

by COPLESTON, FREDERICK

• ISBN13: 9780385470469
• ISBN10: 0385470460
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1994-02-01
• Publisher: Image

Summary

Conceived originally as a serious presentation of the development of philosophy for Catholic seminary students, Frederick Copleston's nine-volumeA History Of Philosophyhas journeyed far beyond the modest purpose of its author to universal acclaim as the best history of philosophy in English.

Author Biography

Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit of immense erudition who once tangled with A. J. Ayer in a fabled debate about the existence of God and the possibility of metaphysics, knew that seminary students were fed a woefully inadequate diet of theses and proofs, and that their familiarity with most of history's great thinkers was reduced to simplistic caricatures. Copleston set out to redress the wrong by writing a complete history of Western philosophy, one crackling with incident and intellectual excitement--and one that gives full place to each thinker, presenting his thought in a beautifully rounded manner and showing his links to those who went before and to those who came after him.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
From the Revolution to Auguste Comte
The Traditionalist Reaction to the Revolution	p. 1
Introductory remarks
De Maistre
De Bonald
Chateau-briand
Lamennais
Traditionalism and the Church
The Ideologists and Maine de Biran	p. 19
The ideologists
Maine de Biran: life and writings
Philosophical development
Psychology and knowledge
Levels of human life
Eclecticism	p. 37
The label
Royer-Collard
Cousin
Jouffroy
Social Philosophy	p. 51
General remarks
The utopianism of Fourier
Saint-Simon and the development of society
Proudhon: anarchism and syndicalism
Marx on the French socialists
Auguste Comte	p. 74
Life and writings
The three stages in human development
The classification and methodology of the sciences
Tasks of the philosopher in the positive era
The science of man: social statics and social dynamics
The Great Being and the religion of humanity
From Auguste Comte to Henri Bergson
Positivism in France	p. 99
E. Littre and his criticism of Comte
C. Bernard and the experimental method
E. Renan: positivism and religion
H. Taine and the possibility of metaphysics
E. Durkheim and the development of sociology
L. Levy-Bruhl and morals
Neo-Criticism and Idealism	p. 132
Cournot and inquiry into basic concepts
The neo-criticism and personalism of Renouvier
Hamelin and idealist metaphysics
Brunschvicg and the mind's reflection on its own activity
The Spiritualist Movement	p. 155
The term 'spiritualism'
The philosophy of Ravaisson
J. Lachelier and the bases of induction
Boutroux and contingency
A. Fouillee on idees-forces
M. J. Guyau and the philosophy of life
Henri Bergson (1)	p. 178
Life and works
Bergson's idea of philosophy
Time and freedom
Memory and perception: the relation between spirit and matter
Instinct, intelligence and intuition in the context of the theory of evolution
Henri Bergson (2)	p. 202
Introductory remarks
Closed morality
Open morality: the interpretation of the two types
Static religion as a defence against the dissolvent power of intelligence
Dynamic religion and mysticism
Comments
From Bergson to Sartre
Philosophy and Christian Apologetics	p. 216
Olle-Laprune on moral certitude
Blondel and the way of immanence
Laberthonniere and Christian philosophy
Some remarks on modernism
Thomism in France	p. 250
Introductory remarks: D. J. Mercier
Garrigou-Lagrange and Sertillanges
J. Maritain
E. Gilson
P. Rousselot and A. Forest
J. Marechal
Philosophy of Science	p. 271
H. Poincare
P. Duhem
G. Milhaud
E. Meyerson
A. Lalande
G. Bachelard
Philosophy of Values, Metaphysics, Personalism	p. 293
General remarks
R. Polin
Metaphysics of values: R. Le Senne and the philosophy of spirit
R. Ruyer and J. Pucelle
L. Lavelle and the philosophy of act
The personalism of E. Mounier
Two Religious Thinkers	p. 318
Teilhard de Chardin
G. Marcel
Differences in outlook
The Existentialism of Sartre (1)	p. 340
Life and writings
Pre-reflective and reflexive consciousness: the imagining and the emotive consciousness
Phenomenal being and being in itself
Being for itself
The freedom of being for itself
Consciousness of others
Atheism and values
The Existentialism of Sartre (2)	p. 368
Sartre and Marxism
The aims of the Critique
Individual praxis
The anti-dialectic and the domination of the practicoinert
The group and its fate
Critical comments
The Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty	p. 390
A. Camus: the absurd and the philosophy of revolt
Merleau-Ponty: the body-subject and its world
Merleau-Ponty and Marxism
Levi-Strauss and man
A Short Bibliography	p. 419
Index	p. 469
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