A New History of Western Philosophy

Produktbeschreibung

Sir Anthony Kenny presents a fascinating and authoritative new history of Western philosophy. Specially written for a broad popular readership, Kenny's lucid and stimulating history will become the definitive work for anyone interested in the people and ideas that shaped the course of Western thought. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Ancient Philosophy
1: Beginnings: From Pythagoras to Plato
2: Schools of Thought: From Aristotle to Augustine
3: Argument and Reason: Logic
4: Knowledge and its Limits
5: How Things Happen: Physics
6: What There Is: Metaphysics
7: Soul and Mind
8: How to Live: Ethics
9: God
Part II: Medieval Philosophy
10: Philosophy and Faith: Augustine to Maimonides
11: The Schoolmen: From the Twelfth Century to the Renaissance
12: Logic and Language
13: Knowledge
14: Physics
15: Metaphysics
16: Mind and Soul
17: Ethics
18: God
Part III: The Rise of Modern Philosophy
19: Sixteenth-Century Philosophy
20: Descartes to Berkeley
21: Hume to Hegel
22: Knowledge
23: Physics
24: Metaphysics
25: Mind and Soul
26: Ethics
27: Political Philosophy
28: God
Part IV: Philosophy in the Modern World
29: From Bentham to Nietzsche
30: From Peirce to Strawson
31: From Freud to Derrida
32: Logic
33: Language
34: Epistemology
35: Metaphysics
36: Philosophy of Mind
37: Ethics
38: Aesthetics
39: Politics
40: God
Chronology 

Autoreninfo

Sir Anthony Kenny has been President of the British Academy, and Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford. He has written many books on the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of religion, and the history of philosophy, including both scholarly and popular works on Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, and Wittgenstein.