The great conversation : A historical introduction to Philosophy

Abstract

*=NEW TO THIS EDITION 1. BEFORE PHILOSOPHY: MYTH IN HESIOD AND HOMER Hesiod: War among the Gods Homer: Heroes, Gods, and Excellence 2. PHILOSOPHY BEFORE SOCRATES Thales: The One as Water Anaximander: The One as the Boundless Xenophanes: The Gods as Fictions SKETCH: PYTHAGORAS Heraclitus: Oneness in the Logos * PROFILE: THE TAO Parmenides: Only the One Zeno: The Paradoxes of Common Sense Atomism: The One and the Many Reconciled 3. THE SOPHISTS: RHETORIC AND RELATIVISM IN ATHENS Democracy The Persian Wars The Sophists Physis and Nomos Athens and Sparta at War Aristophanes and Reaction 4. SOCRATES: TO KNOW ONESELF Character Is Socrates a Sophist? What Socrates Knows 5. THE TRIAL AND DEATH OF SOCRATES Translator's Introduction The Dialogue Commentary and Questions Translator's Introduction The Dialogue Commentary and Questions Translator's Introduction The Dialogue Commentary and Questions Phaedo (Death Scene) Translator's Introduction The Dialogue (Selection) Commentary and Questions 6. PLATO: KNOWING THE REAL AND THE GOOD Knowledge and Opinion The World and the Forms The Love of Wisdom The Soul Morality The State Problems with the Forms 7. ARISTOTLE: THE REALITY OF THE WORLD Aristotle and Plato Logic and Knowledge The World First Philosophy The Soul The Good Life 8. EPICUREANS, STOICS, AND SKEPTICS: HAPPINESS FOR THE MANY The Epicureans The Stoics The Skeptics 9. THE CHRISTIANS: SIN, SALVATION, AND LOVE Background Jesus The Meaning of Jesus 10. AUGUSTINE: GOD AND THE SOUL Wisdom, Happiness, and God The Interior Teacher God and the World Human Nature and Its Corruption Human Nature and Its Restoration Augustine on Relativism The Two Cities Christians and Philosophers 11. ANSELM AND AQUINAS: EXISTENCE AND ESSENCE IN GOD AND THE WORLD Anselm: On That, Than Which No Greater Can Be Conceived Thomas Aquinas: Rethinking Aristotle SKETCH: AVICENNA (IBN SINA) SKETCH: AVERROES (IBN RUSHD) SKETCH: MAIMONIDES (MOSES BEN MAIMON) Ockham and Skeptical Doubts--Again 12. MOVING FROM MEDIEVAL TO MODERN The World God Made for Us The Humanists Reforming the Church Skeptical Thoughts Revived Copernicus to Kepler to Galileo: The Great Triple Play 13. RENE DESCARTES: DOUBTING OUR WAY TO CERTAINTY The Method Meditations: Commentary and Questions Meditation I Meditation II Meditation III Meditation IV Meditation V Meditation VI What Has Descartes Done? 14. HOBBES, LOCKE, AND BERKELEY: MATERIALISM AND THE BEGINNINGS OF EMPIRICISM Thomas Hobbes: Catching Persons in the Net of the New Science SKETCH: FRANCIS BACON John Locke: Looking to Experience George Berkeley: Ideas into Things 15. DAVID HUME: UNMASKING THE PRETENSIONS OF REASON How Newton Did It To Be the Newton of Human Nature The Theory of Ideas The Association of Ideas Causation: The Very Idea The Disappearing Self SKETCH: THE BUDDHA Rescuing Human Freedom Is It Reasonable to Believe in God? Understanding Morality Is Hume a Skeptic? 16. IMMANUEL KANT: REHABILITATING REASON (WITHIN STRICT LIMITS) Critique Judgments Geometry, Mathematics, Space, and Time Common Sense, Science, and the A Priori Categories SKETCH: BARUCH SPINOZA Phenomena and Noumena SKETCH: GOTTFRIED WILHELM VON LEIBNIZ Reasoning and the Ideas of Metaphysics: God, World, and Soul Reason and Morality SKETCH: JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU 17. GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL: TAKING HISTORY SERIOUSLY Historical and Intellectual Context Epistemology Internalized SKETCH: ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Self and Others Stoic and Skeptical Consciousness Hegel's Analysis of Christianity Reason and Reality: The Theory of Idealism Spirit Made Objective: The Social Character of Ethics History and Freedom 18. KIERKEGAARD AND MARX: TWO WAYS TO CORRECT HEGEL Kierkegaard: On Individual Existence Marx: Beyond Alienation and Exploitation 19. THE UTILITARIANS: MORAL RULES AND THE HAPPINESS OF ALL (INCLUDING WOMEN) The Classic Utilitarians The Rights of Women 20. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE: THE VALUE OF EXISTENCE Pessimism and Tragedy Good-bye Real World The Death of God Revaluation of Values * PROFILE: IRIS MURDOCH The Overman Affirming Eternal Recurrence 21. THE PRAGMATISTS: THOUGHT AND ACTION Charles Sanders Peirce John Dewey SKETCH: WILLIAM JAMES * 22. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN: LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS AND ORDINARY LANGUAGE Language and Its Logic SKETCH: BERTRAND RUSSELL Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus * PROFILE: THE LOGICAL POSITIVISTS The Continuity of Wittgenstein's Thought * PROFILE: ZEN Our Groundless Certainty 23. MARTIN HEIDEGGER: THE MEANING OF BEING What Is the Question? The Clue Phenomenology Being-in-the-World The Who of Dasein Modes of Disclosure Falling-Away Care Truth Death Conscience, Guilt, and Resoluteness Temporality as the Meaning of Care The Priority of Being 24. SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR: EXISTENTIALIST, FEMINIST Ambiguity PROFILE: JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Ethics Woman 25. POSTMODERNISM AND PHYSICAL REALISM: DERRIDA, QUINE, AND DENNETT Postmodernism * PROFILE: RICHARD RORTY Physical Realism

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 49 citations exist upstream.