| Description |
vii, 571 pages ; 25 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
1. Introduction -- pt. 1. Ancient philosophies -- 2. India -- The 'schools' and their framework -- Nyāya -- Sāṃkhya and yoga -- Advaita vedānta -- Buddhism -- Ethics and Indian philosophy -- 3. China -- The character of Chinese philosophy -- Confucianism -- Mohism -- Taoism -- 4. Greece -- Legacies -- Naturalism and relativism -- Plato -- Aristotle -- Epicureanism, scepticism and stoicism -- pt. 2. Middle period and 'modern' philosophies -- 5. Mediaeval philosophies -- Religion and philosophy -- Neo-Platonism and early Christianity -- Islamic and Jewish philosophy -- Thomism and its critics -- Mediaeval mysticism -- 6. Developments in Asian philosophy -- Theistic vedānta -- Neo-Confucianism -- Zen Buddhism -- Illuminationism -- 7. From Renaissance to enlightenment -- Humanism and the rise of science -- Scepticism -- Dualism materialism and idealism -- Monism and monadology -- Enlightenment and its critics -- pt. 3. Recent philosophies -- 8. Kant and the nineteenth century -- Kant -- Absolute idealism -- Philosophies of the will -- Marxism and social Darwinism -- Positivism, pramatism and British idealism -- 9. Recent non-Western philosophies -- India -- China and Japan -- The Islamic world -- Africa -- 10. Twentieth-century western philosophies -- Philosophies of life -- Phenomenology, hermeneutics and existentialism -- Logical atomism and logical positivism -- Naturalisms -- Postmodernism and related tendencies |
| Summary |
This book introduces philosophy from the time of ancient India, China and Greece up to the present day. These philosophical systems are viewed as attempts to provide integrated accounts of human beings within the wider order of nature |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [505]-526) and index |
| Subject |
Philosophy -- Introductions.
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Philosophy -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Einführung
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History.
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Introductions.
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| LC no. |
2002023051 |
| ISBN |
0631232605 alkaline paper |
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0631232613 paperback alkaline paper |
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