An Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy

by Kenny, Anthony

• ISBN13: 9781405141802
• ISBN10: 1405141808
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-08-28
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This is a proposal for a revised edition of Kenny's Brief History, with illustrations. The book has done comparatively very well, but even 12,600 copies in 6 years is probably underperforming for a book with such trade potential. The price has also crept up to 17.99. It still sells c. 1000 copies, and most of these are through the trade.Tony Kenny does not want to revisit the content in any significant way. The questions really concern the following- Including colour plates as well as halftones (like Kenny's Illustrated Oxford History)- Call it An Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy to signal to the trade that this is a relevantly different product (rather than a revised edition)- Release initially as a trade hardback or simultaneous? First edition blurb In this lucid and masterful work, the eminent scholar Anthony Kenny offers an indispensable resource - the most concise and compelling story of the complete development of philosophy available.Spanning 2,500 years of thought, this superb volume provides essential coverage of the most influential philosophers of the Western world, including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Jesus, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Berkeley, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Mill, Nietzsche, Darwin, Freud, Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein, amongst many others.Unrivaled in its authority and range, the book is ideal for anyone with an interest in Western thought.

Author Biography

Sir Anthony Kenny was formerly Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Oxford University, Master of Balliol College, Oxford and Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford. He was also President of the British Academy, Chairman of the Board of the British Library and a Trustee of Wittgenstein’s copyrights. He is the author or editor of more than 40 books, including Wittgenstein (Revised Edition, 2006), Frege: An Introduction to the Founder of Modern Analytic Philosophy (2000) and The Legacy of Wittgenstein (1984), all published by Blackwell.

Table of Contents

Preface	x
List of Illustrations	xiii
Acknowledgements	xvi
I PHILOSOPHY IN ITS INFANCY	1	(20)
The Milesians	2	(3)
Xenophanes	5	(1)
He raclitus	6	(3)
The School of Parmenides	9	(5)
Empedocles	14	(3)
The Atomists	17	(4)
II THE ATHENS OF SOCRATES	21	(17)
The Athenian Empire	21	(2)
Anaxagoras	23	(1)
The Sophists	24	(1)
Socrates	25	(3)
The Euthyphro	28	(3)
The Crito	31	(1)
The Phaedo	31	(7)
III THE PHILOSOPHY OF PLATO	38	(23)
Life and Works	38	(2)
The Theory of Ideas	40	(4)
Plato's Republic	44	(10)
The Theaetetus and the Sophist	54	(7)
IV THE SYSTEM Of ARISTOTLE	61	(30)
Plato's Pupil, Alexander's Teacher	61	(2)
The Foundation of Logic	63	(4)
The Theory of Drama	67	(1)
Moral Philosophy: Virtue and Happiness	68	(4)
Moral Philosophy: Wisdom and Understanding	72	(3)
Politics	75	(2)
Science and Explanation	77	(3)
Words and Things	80	(1)
Motion and Change	81	(2)
Soul, Sense, and Intellect	83	(3)
Metaphysics	86	(5)
V GREEK PHILOSOPHY AFTER ARISTOTLE	91	(18)
The Hellenistic Era	91	(2)
Epicureanism	93	(2)
Stoicism	95	(2)
Scepticism	97	(2)
Rome and its Empire	99	(1)
Jesus of Nazareth	100	(2)
Christianity and Gnosticism	102	(4)
Neo-Platonism	106	(3)
VI EARLY CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY	109	(16)
Arianism and Orthodoxy	109	(3)
The Theology of Incarnation	112	(2)
The Life of Augustine	114	(3)
The City of God and the Mystery of Grace	117	(3)
Boethius and Philoponus	120	(5)
VII EARLY MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY	125	(19)
John the Scot	125	(3)
Alkindi and Avicenna	128	(2)
The Feudal System	130	(1)
Saint Anselm	131	(2)
Abelard and Héloise	133	(2)
Abelard's Logic	135	(2)
Abelard's Ethics	137	(2)
Averroes	139	(1)
Maimonides	140	(4)
VIII PHILOSOPHY IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY	144	(20)
An Age of Innovation	144	(3)
Saint Bonaventure	147	(2)
Thirteenth-Century Logic	149	(1)
Aquinas' Life and Works	150	(2)
Aquinas' Natural Theology	152	(2)
Matter, Form, Substance, and Accident	154	(2)
Aquinas on Essence and Existence	156	(1)
Aquinas' Philosophy of Mind	157	(2)
Aquinas' Moral Philosophy	159	(5)
IX OXFORD PHILOSOPHERS	164	(18)
The Fourteenth-Century University	164	(1)
Duns Scotus	165	(7)
Ockham's Logic of Language	172	(2)
Ockham's Political Theory	174	(3)
The Oxford Calculators	177	(1)
John Wyclif	178	(4)
X RENAISSANCE PHILOSOPHY	182	(24)
The Renaissance	182	(1)
Free-will: Rome vs. Louvain	183	(3)
Renaissance Platonism	186	(2)
Machiavelli	188	(2)
More's Utopia	190	(3)
The Reformation	193	(4)
Post-Reformation Philosophy	197	(2)
Bruno and Galileo	199	(2)
Francis Bacon	201	(5)
XI THE AGE OF DESCARTES	206	(15)
The Wars of Religion	206	(1)
The Life of Descartes	207	(3)
The Doubt and the Cogito	210	(2)
The Essence of Mind	212	(2)
God, Mind, and Body	214	(3)
The Material World	217	(4)
XII ENGLISH PHILOSOPHY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY	221	(16)
The Empiricism of Thomas Hobbes	221	(2)
Hobbes' Political Philosophy	223	(3)
The Political Theory of John Locke	226	(2)
Locke on Ideas and Qualities	228	(4)
Substances and Persons	232	(5)
XIII CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE AGE OF LOUIS XIV	237	(14)
Blaise Pascal	237	(3)
Spinoza and Malebranche	240	(5)
Leibniz	245	(6)
XIV BRITISH PHILOSOPHY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY	251	(15)
Berkeley	251	(5)
Hume's Philosophy of Mind	256	(4)
Hume on Causation	260	(3)
Reid and Common Sense	263	(3)
XV THE ENLIGHTENMENT	266	(9)
The Philosophes	266	(1)
Rousseau	267	(4)
Revolution and Romanticism	271	(4)
XVI THE CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF KANT	275	(23)
Kant's Copernican Revolution	275	(3)
The Transcendental Aesthetic	278	(2)
The Transcendental Analytic: The Deduction of the Categories	280	(3)
The Transcendental Analytic: The System of Principles	283	(3)
The Transcendental Dialectic: The Paralogisms of Pure Reason	286	(3)
The Transcendental Dialectic: The Antinomies of Pure Reason	289	(2)
The Transcendental Dialectic: The Critique of Natural Theology	291	(4)
Kant's Moral Philosophy	295	(3)
XVII GERMAN IDEALISM AND MATERIALISM	298	(11)
Fichte	298	(1)
Hegel	299	(5)
Marx and the Young Hegelians	304	(2)
Capitalism and its Discontents	306	(3)
XVIII THE UTILITARIANS	309	(11)
Jeremy Bentham	309	(5)
The Utilitarianism of J.S. Mill	314	(2)
Mill's Logic	316	(4)
XIX THREE NINETEENTH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHERS	320	(13)
Schopenhauer	320	(7)
Kierkegaard	327	(2)
Nietzsche	329	(4)
XX THREE MODERN MASTERS	333	(18)
Charles Darwin	333	(6)
John Henry Newman	339	(4)
Sigmund Freud	343	(8)
XXI LOGIC AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF MATHEMATICS	351	(14)
Frege's Logic	351	(2)
Frege's Logicism	353	(3)
Frege's Philosophy of Logic	356	(1)
Russell's Paradox	357	(2)
Russell's Theory of Descriptions	359	(3)
Logical Analysis	362	(3)
XXII THE PHILOSOPHY OF WITTGENSTEIN	365	(17)
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus	365	(3)
Logical Positivism	368	(2)
Philosophical Investigations	370	(12)
Afterword	382	(4)
Suggestions for Further Reading	386	(6)
Index	392