Socrates to Sartre and Beyond : A History of Philosophy with Free Philosophy PowerWeb

by Stumpf, Samuel Enoch

• ISBN13: 9780072878295
• ISBN10: 0072878290
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-11-25
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

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

Chapter 1. Socrates Predecessors

Chapter 2. The Sophists and Socrates

Chapter 3. Plato

Chapter 4. Aristotle

PART TWO: HELLENISTIC AND MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY

Chapter 5. Classical Philosophy After Aristotle

Chapter 6. Augustine

Chapter 7. Philosophy in the Early Middle Ages

Chapter 8. Aquinas and his Late Medieval Successors

PART THREE: EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY

Chapter 9. Philosophy During the Renaissance

Chapter 10. Rationalism on the Continent

Chapter 11. Empiricism in Britain

PART FOUR: LATE MODERN AND 19TH CENTURY PHILOSOPHY

Chapter 12. Kant

Chapter 13. German Idealism

Chapter 14. Utilitarianism and Positivism

Chapter 15. Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche

PART FIVE: 20TH CENTURY AND CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY

Chapter 16. Pragmatism and Process Philosophy

Chapter 17. Analytic Philosophy

Chapter 18. Phenomenology and Existentialism

Chapter 19. Recent Philosophy