Looking at Philosophy : The Unbearable Heaviness of Philosophy Made Lighter

by Palmer, Donald

• ISBN13: 9780072828955
• ISBN10: 0072828951
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-06-07
• Publisher: MCGRAW HILL HIGHER EDUCATION

Summary

Distilled from Donald Palmer's more than 30 years of teaching experiences, this approachable text, historically organized text exemplifies Dr. Palmer's very successful light-hearted approach to teaching introduction to philosophy. Through the use of humor, drawings, charts, and diagrams, serious philosophical topics come alive for the readers--without compromising the seriousness of the subject matter. The text can be used as a core text or as a supplement to any reader.

Table of Contents

Preface	iii
Introduction	1	(9)
I. The Pre-Socratic Philosophers
Sixth and Fifth Centuries B.C.E.	10	(38)
Thales	13	(3)
Anaximander	16	(6)
Anaximenes	22	(2)
Pythagoras	24	(3)
Heraclitus	27	(4)
Parmenides	31	(2)
Zeno	33	(3)
Empedocles	36	(2)
Anaxagoras	38	(3)
Leucippus and Democritus	41	(7)
II. The Athenian Period
Fifth and Fourth Centuries B.C.E.	48	(43)
The Sophists	48	(6)
Protagoras	49	(1)
Gorgias	50	(1)
Thrasymachus	51	(1)
Callicles and Critias	52	(2)
Socrates	54	(5)
Plato	59	(13)
Aristotle	72	(19)
III. The Hellenistic and Roman Periods
Fourth Century B.C.E. through Fourth Century C.E.	91	(13)
Epicureanism	91	(4)
Stoicism	95	(5)
Neoplatonism	100	(4)
IV. Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
Fifth through Fifteenth Centuries	104	(50)
Saint Augustine	108	(5)
The Encyclopediasts	113	(2)
John Scotus Eriugena	115	(3)
Saint Anselm	118	(3)
Muslim and Jewish Philosophies	121	(5)
Averroës	123	(1)
Maimonides	124	(2)
The Problem of Faith and Reason	126	(1)
The Problem of the Universals	127	(3)
Saint Thomas Aquinas	130	(12)
William of Ockham	142	(4)
Renaissance Philosophers	146	(8)
V. Continental Rationalism and British Empiricism
The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries	154	(73)
Descartes	154	(19)
Hobbes	173	(4)
Spinoza	177	(5)
Leibniz	182	(6)
Locke	188	(8)
Berkeley	196	(5)
Hume	201	(9)
Kant	210	(17)
VI. Post-Kantian British and Continental Philosophy
The Nineteenth Century	227	(72)
Hegel	227	(10)
Schopenhauer	237	(9)
Kierkegaard	246	(12)
Marx	258	(13)
Nietzsche	271	(9)
Utilitarianism	280	(8)
Bentham	280	(5)
Mill	285	(3)
Frege	288	(11)
VII. Pragmatism, the Analytic Tradition, and the Phenomenological Tradition and Its Aftermath
The Twentieth Century	299	(108)
Pragmatism	299	(13)
James	300	(7)
Dewey	307	(5)
The Analytic Tradition	312	(41)
Moore	313	(5)
Russell	318	(7)
Logical Positivism	325	(6)
Wittgenstein	331	(12)
Quine	343	(10)
The Phenomenological Tradition and Its Aftermath	353	(27)
Husserl	353	(4)
Heidegger	357	(9)
Sartre	366	(14)
Structuralism and Poststructuralism	380	(27)
Saussure	380	(3)
Lévi-Strauss	383	(5)
Lacan	388	(6)
Derrida	394	(4)
Irigaray	398	(9)
Glossary of Philosophical Terms	407	(16)
Selected Bibliography	423	(10)
Index	433