UID:
edocfu_9959234543802883
Format:
1 online resource (1077 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-19-164291-6
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1-283-92383-1
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0-19-164290-8
Series Statement:
New History of Western Philosophy
Content:
This book is no less than a guide to the whole of Western philosophy -- the ideas that have undergirded our civilization for two-and-a-half thousand years. Anthony Kenny tells the story of philosophy from ancient Greece through the Middle Ages and the Enlightenment into the modern world. He introduces us to the great thinkers and their ideas, starting with Plato, Aristotle, and the other founders of Western thought. In the second part of the book he takes us through a thousand yearsof medieval philosophy, and shows us the rich intellectual legacy of Christian thinkers like Augustine, Aquinas,
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Part 1 - Beginnings: from Pythagoras to Plato -- Schools of thought: from Aristotle to Augustine -- How to argue: logic -- Knowledge and its limits: epistemology -- How things happen: physics -- What there is: metaphysics -- Soul and mind -- How to live: ethics -- God.
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Part 2 - Philosophy and faith: Augustine to Maimonides -- The schoolmen: from the twelfth century to the Renaissance -- Logic and language -- Knowledge -- Physics -- Metaphysics -- Mind and soul -- Ethics -- God.
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Part 3 - Sixteenth-century philosophy -- Descartes to Berkeley -- Hume to Hegel -- Knowledge -- Physics -- Metaphysics -- Mind and soul -- Ethics -- Political philosophy -- God.
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Part 4 - Bentham to Nietzsche -- Pierce to Strawson -- Freud to Derrida -- Logic -- Language -- Epistemology -- Metaphysics -- Philosophy of mind -- Ethics -- Aesthetics -- Political philosophy -- God.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-958988-7
Language:
English
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