An Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy, 2nd Edition

by Anthony Kenny (University of Oxford)

• ISBN13: 9781405178600
• ISBN10: 1405178604
• Additional ISBN(s): 9781405141796, 9781405141802
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2009-02-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This illustrated edition of Sir Anthony Kenny's acclaimed survey of Western philosophy offers the most concise and compelling story of the complete development of philosophy available. Spanning 2,500 years of thought, An Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy provides essential coverage of the most influential philosophers of the Western world, among them Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Jesus, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Berkeley, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Mill, Nietzsche, Darwin, Freud, Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein. Replete with over 60 illustrations - ranging from Dufresnoy's The Death of Socrates, through to the title page of Thomas More's Utopia, portraits of Hobbes and Rousseau, photographs of Charles Darwin and Bertrand Russell, Freud's own sketch of the Ego and the Id, and Wittgenstein's Austrian military identity card - this lucid and masterful work is ideal for anyone with an interest in Western thought.

Table of Contents

Preface

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Philosophy in its Infancy

The Athens of Socrates

The Philosophy of Plato

The System of Aristotle

Greek Philosophy after Aristotle

Early Christian Philosophy

Early Medieval Philosophy

Philosophy in the Thirteenth Century

Oxford Philosophers

Renaissance Philosophy

The Age of Descartes

English Philosophy in the Seventeenth-Century

Continental Philosophy in the Age of Louis XIV

British Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century

The Enlightenment

The Critical Philosophy of Kant

German Idealism and Materialism

The Utilitarians

Three Nineteenth-Century Philosophers

Three Modern Masters

Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics

The Philosophy of Wittgenstein

Afterword

Suggestions for Further Reading

Index

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