History of Philosophy

by Julian Marias

Overview

Thorough and lucid survey of Western philosophy from pre-Socratics to mid 20th century: major figures, currents, trends, literature, significance, and more. Valuable section on contemporary philosophy — Brentano, Ortega, Heidegger, others. One of the best elementary history of philosophy available. "Brevity and clarity of exposition..." — Ethics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780486217390
Publisher:	Dover Publications
Publication date:	06/01/1967
Series:	Dover Books on Western Philosophy Series
Edition description:	English Language
Pages:	544
Sales rank:	795,527
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	12 - 17 Years

Table of Contents

Introduction
GREEK PHILOSOPHY
The Suppositions of Greek Philosophy
The Pre-Socratics
I The Milesian School
2 The Pythagoreans
3 Parmenides and the Eleatic School
4 From Heraclitus to Democritus
The Sophists and Socrates
I The Sophists
2 Socrates
Plato
I The Ideas
2 The Structure of Reality
3 Problems Raised by the Theory of Ideas
4 Man and the City
5 Philosophy
Aristotle
I The Levels of Knowledge
2 Metaphysics
3 The Modes of Being
4 Substance
5 Logic
6 Physics
7 The Theory of the Soul
8 Ethics
9 Politics
The Ideal of the Wise Man
I Ethical Philosophies in the Socratic Tradition
2 Stoicism
3 Epicureanism
4 Skepticism and Eclecticism
Neoplatonism
CHRISTIANITY
Christianity and Philosophy
Patristic Speculation
St. Augustine
I Life and Character
2 Philosophy
3 The Significance of St. Augustine
MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY
Scholasticism
I The Era of Transition
2 The Nature of Scholasticism
The Great Themes of the Middle Ages
I The Creation
2 The Universals
3 Reason
The Medieval Philosophers
I Scotus Erigena
2 St. Anselm
3 The Twelfth Century
4 Eastern Philosphies
5 The Spiritual World of the Thirteenth Century
6 St. Bonaventure
7 Aristotelico-Scholastic Philosophy
8 Roger Bacon
9 Christian Philosophy in Spain
10 Duns Scotus and Occam
11 Meister Eckhart
12 The Last Phase of Medieval Philosophy
MODERN PHILOSOPHY
The Renaissance
The Renaissance World
I The Spiritual Circumstances
2 Humanist Thought
The Beginning of Modern Philosophy
I Nicholas of Cusa
2 Giordano Bruno
3 Modern Physics
4 Spanish Scholasticism
Seventeenth-Century Idealism
Descartes
I The Cartesian Problem
2 Man
3 God
4 The World
5 Rationalism and Idealism
Cartesianism in France
I Malebranche
2 The Religious Thinkers
Spinoza
I Metaphysics
2 Ethics
3 Being as a Desire to Survive
Leibniz
I Leibniz' Philosophic Situation
2 Leibniz' Metaphysics
3 Theory of Knowledge
4 Theodicy
Empiricism
British Philosophy
I Francis Bacon
2 Hobbes
3 Deism
4 Locke
5 Berkeley
6 Hume
7 The Scottish School
The Enlightenment
I The Enlightenment in France
2 "The "Aufklärung" in Germany"
3 Vico's Doctrine of History
4 Spanish Philosophers of the Enlightenment
The Formation of the Modern Epoch
I Philosophy and History
2 The Rationalist State
3 The Reformation
4 Modern Society
5 The Loss of God
German Idealism
Kant
I Transcendental Idealism
2 "The "Critique of Pure Reason"
3 Practical Reason
The Problem of Kantian Philosophy
I The Interpretations of Kant's Philosophy
2 Theory of Knowledge
3 Being as a Desire to Survive
4 Philosophy
Fichte
I Fichte's Metaphysics
2 Fichte's Idealism
Schelling
The Phases of Schelling's Philosophy
Hegel
I The Outline of Hegel's Philosophy
2 "The "Phenomenology of the Spirit"
3 "The "Logic"
4 The Philosophy of Nature
5 The Philosophy of the Spirit
The Thought of the Romantic Age
I The Literary Movements
2 The School of History
3 Schleiermacher and the Philosophy of Religion
4 Derivations of Idealism
5 Schopenhauer
Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
The Triumph over Sensationalism
I Maine de Biran
2 Spiritualism
Comte's Positivism
I History
2 Society
3 Science
4 The Signifiance of Positivism
Philosophy of Positivist Inspiration
I The French Thinkers
2 English Philosophy
3 The Positivist Era in Germany
The Discovery of Life
I Kierkegaard
2 Nietzsche
The Return to Traditional Metaphysics
I The First Attempts
2 Gratry
Contemporary Philosophy
Brentano
I Bretano's Position in the History of Philosophy
2 Psychology
3 Ethics
4 The Existence of God
The Idea of Life
I Dilthey
2 Simmel
3 Bergson
4 Blondel
5 Unamuno
English-Language Philosophy
I Pragmatism
2 Personalism
3 Recent Trends
Husserl's Phenomenology
I Ideal Objects
2 Meanings