Socrates to Sartre and Beyond

by Stumpf, Samuel Enoch; Fieser, James

• ISBN13: 9780073296180
• ISBN10: 007329618X
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-07-30
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

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. With a lively and approachable style it covers the principal contributions of Western civilization's most influential philosophers. It provides ample detail without complicating minutiae. 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

The History Of Philosophy Part One: Ancient Greek Philosophy

Socrates Predecessors

The Sophists and Socrates

Plato

Aristotle

Hellenistic And Medieval Philosophy

Classical Philosophy After Aristotle

Augustine

Philosophy in the Early Middle Ages

Aquinas and his Late Medieval Successors

Early Modern Philosophy

Philosophy During the Renaissance

Rationalism on the Continent

Empiricism in Britain

Enlightenment in Philosophy

Late Modern And 19Th Century Philosophy

Kant

German

Utilitarianism and

Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche

20Th Century And Contemporary Philosophy

Pragmatism and Process Philosophy

Analytic Philosophy

Phenomenology and Existentialism

Recent Philosophy

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