Socrates to Sartre and Beyond

by Stumpf, Samuel Enoch; Fieser, James

• ISBN13: 9780072560787
• ISBN10: 0072560789
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-08-01
• Publisher: MCG

Summary

This comprehensive, historically organized introduction to philosophy communicates the richness of the discipline and provides the student with a working knowledge of the development of Western philosophy. New co-author James Fieser has brought this classic text up-to-date both chronologically and stylistically while preserving the thoughtful, conceptual characteristics that have made it so successful. The text covers all periods of philosophy, lists philosophers alphabetically and chronologically on the end-papers, and features an exceptional glossary of key concepts.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHY

1. Socrates Predecessors

2. The Sophists and Socrates

3. Plato

4. Aristotle

PART TWO: HELLENISTIC AND MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY

5. Classical Philosophy After Aristotle

6. Augustine

7. Philosophy in the Early Middle Ages

8. Aquinas and his Late Medieval Successors

PART THREE: EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY

9. Philosophy During the Renaissance

10. Rationalism on the Continent

11. Empiricism in Britain

PART FOUR: LATE MODERN AND 19TH CENTURY PHILOSOPHY

12. Kant

13. German Idealism

14. Utilitarianism and Positivism

15. Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche

PART FIVE: 20TH CENTURY AND CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY

16. Pragmatism and Process Philosophy

17. Analytic Philosophy

18. Phenomenology and Existentialism

19. Recent Philosophy