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Overview
- Beginners who want an introduction to philosophy;
- Those who have already had an introduction to philosophy and who would like to see it in action now applied to a great book written by a great philosophy, but who have never read Plato’s Republic, the most famous and influential philosophy book ever written;
- Those who have read Plato’s Republic before but did not understand its deepest significance.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781587318283 |
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Publisher: | St. Augustine's Press |
Publication date: | 12/03/2018 |
Edition description: | 1 |
Pages: | 128 |
Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d) |
About the Author
Peter Kreeft, Professor of philosophy at Boston College, is the author of dozens of books, including, soon, twenty-five from St. Augustine's Press. He was educated at Calvin College (A.B., 1959) and Fordham University (M.A., 1961; Ph.D., 1965), and has been a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, a Yale-Sterling Fellow, and a Danforth Asian Religions Fellow as well as a Newman Alumni Scholar. His works in philosophy and religion have made him famous throughout the world and a sought-after speaker on topics ranging from logic, epistemology, and metaphysics to science fiction, Zen, and surfing.
Table of Contents
I Introduction
1 Who is this book for? 1
2 Why do you need philosophy? 1
3 Why is Plato the best introduction to philosophy? 4
4 Who was Socrates? 8
5 Introduction to the Republic 10
II The Republic
1 The Beginning: Bringing Philosophy into Politics. 12
2 The Question: What is Justice? 14
3 The Deeper Question: How to Live: Socrates vs. Gyges 29
4 Societies as Mirrors of Souls 39
5 Plato's Ideal Society 40
6 Plato's Psychology 45
7 Plato's Metaphysics: the "Theory of Forms" or "Platonic Ideas" 47
8 Plato's Parables of the Sun, the Line, and the Cave 58
9 Education and Politics; the Parallel Between Souls and States 66
10 The Seven Liberal Arts: Plato's Curriculum 69
11 Book 8: Four Kinds of Unjust States: Plato's Critique of Democracy 71
12 The Main Point Finally Proved: The Profit (Happiness) in Justice 74
13 Life After Death: The Rest of the Story
III 31 Footnotes to Plato: The Rest of the History of Philosophy 81
1 Aristotle: Realism 82
2 Epicurus: Hedonism 84
3 Pyrrho: Skepticism 84
4 Epictetus: Stoicism 84
5 Plotinus: Mysticism 85
6 St. Augustine: Christian Platonism 85
7 St Thomas Aquinas: Christian Aristotelianism 85
8 Machiavelli: "Machiavellianism" 86
9 Bacon: The Conquest of Nature by Technology 86
10 Descartes: Philosophy by Scientific Method 86
11 Spinoza: Pantheism 87
12 Hobbes: Materialism 87
13 Pascal: Faith as a Wager 88
14 Rousseau: "Romanticism" 88
15 Locke: Empiricism 88
16 Berkeley: Immaterialism 89
17 Hume: Skepticism 89
18 Kant: Epistemological Idealism 90
19 Hegel: Historical Relativism 90
20 Marx: Communism 90
21 Mill: Utilitarianism 91
22 Kierkegaard: Christian Existentialism 91
23 Nietzsche: Atheistic Existentialism 92
24 Heidegger: Ontological (Being-directed) Existentialism 93
25 Sartre: Nihilistic existentialism 93
26 Husserl: Phenomenology 94
27 James: Pragmatism 94
28 Dewey: Ideological Pragmatism 94
29 Moore: Ordinary Language 95
30 Wittgenstein: Linguistic Analysis 95
31 Derrida: Deconstructionism 95
Postscript 97