| Description |
[viii], 211 pages : portraits ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Introduction 1 -- 1 Socrates and Plato: the Fire and the Sun 7 -- 2 Aristotle: the Spirit of Rational Enquiry 26 -- 3 Epicurus and Zeno: How to Lead a Good Life 43 -- 4 Thomas Aquinas: the Unified Interpretation of Reality 56 -- 5 Ren6 Descartes: Systematic Doubt as a Philosophical -- Method 70 -- 6 Locke and Montesquieu: the Liberal State 82 -- 7 Benedict de Spinoza: Rigorous Thought and Severe -- Conclusions 96 -- 8 David Hume: Empirical Verification 106 -- 9 Immanuel Kant: the Critique of Reason 117 -- 10 Karl Marx: the March of History 128 -- 11 Friedrich Nietzsche: the Will to Power 141 -- 12 Ludwig Wittgenstein: Language and Reality 151 -- 13 Martin Heidegger: We Have Forgotten Being 162 -- 14 Jean-Paul Sartre: Existentialist Anguish 173 -- 15 Jacques Derrida: Deconstructing Reality 184 |
| Summary |
An introduction to the fascinating and challenging world of philosophy, this text examines 18 key thinkers - from Socrates to Derrida - placing each in their historical and cultural contexts |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [205]-206 |
| Subject |
Philosophy -- History -- Outlines, syllabi, etc.
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Philosophy -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Outlines and syllabi.
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| LC no. |
2006282269 |
| ISBN |
0826490190 (hbk.) |
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0826490204 (paperback) |
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9780826490209 (paperback) |
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