An Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy
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This illustrated edition of Sir Anthony Kenny's acclaimed survey of Western philosophy offers the most concise and compelling story of the complete development of philosophy available.

Spanning 2, 500 years of thought, An Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy provides essential coverage of the most influential philosophers of the Western world, among them Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Jesus, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Berkeley, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Mill, Nietzsche, Darwin, Freud, Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein. Replete with over 60 illustrations - ranging from Dufresnoy's The Death of Socrates, through to the title page of Thomas More's Utopia, portraits of Hobbes and Rousseau, photographs of Charles Darwin and Bertrand Russell, Freud's own sketch of the Ego and the Id, and Wittgenstein's Austrian military identity card - this lucid and masterful work is ideal for anyone with an interest in Western thought.

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Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2009
ISBN
9781405178600
Edition
2
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosophy History & Theory

Table of contents

  1. PREFACE
  2. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  3. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  4. I PHILOSOPHY IN ITS INFANCY
  5. The Milesians
  6. Xenophanes
  7. Heraclitus
  8. The School of Parmenides
  9. Empedocles
  10. The Atomists
  11. II THE ATHENS OF SOCRATES
  12. The Athenian Empire
  13. Anaxagoras
  14. The Sophists
  15. Socrates
  16. The Euthyphro
  17. The Crito
  18. The Phaedo
  19. III THE PHILOSOPHY OF PLATO
  20. Life and Works
  21. The Theory of Ideas
  22. Plato ’s Republic
  23. The Theaetetus and the Sophist
  24. IV THE SYSTEM OF ARISTOTLE
  25. Plato ’s Pupil,Alexander ’s Teacher
  26. The Foundation of Logic
  27. The Theory of Drama
  28. Moral Philosophy:Virtue and Happiness
  29. Moral Philosophy:Wisdom and Understanding
  30. Politics
  31. Science and Explanation
  32. Words and Things
  33. Motion and Change
  34. Soul,Sense,and Intellect
  35. Metaphysics
  36. V GREEK PHILOSOPHY AFTER ARISTOTLE
  37. The Hellenistic Era
  38. Epicureanism
  39. Stoicism
  40. Scepticism
  41. Rome and its Empire
  42. Jesus of Nazareth
  43. Christianity and Gnosticism
  44. Neo-Platonism
  45. VI EARLY CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY
  46. Arianism and Orthodoxy
  47. The Theology of Incarnation
  48. The Life of Augustine
  49. The City of God and the Mystery of Grace
  50. Boethius and Philoponus
  51. VII EARLY MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY
  52. John the Scot
  53. Alkindi and Avicenna
  54. The Feudal System
  55. Saint Anselm
  56. Abelard and Héloïse
  57. Abelard ’s Logic
  58. Abelard ’s Ethics
  59. Averroes
  60. Maimonides
  61. VIII PHILOSOPHY IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY
  62. An Age of Innovation
  63. Saint Bonaventure
  64. Thirteenth-Century Logic
  65. Aquinas ’ Life and Works
  66. Aquinas ’ Natural Theology
  67. Matter,Form,Substance,and Accident
  68. Aquinas on Essence and Existence
  69. Aquinas ’ Philosophy of Mind
  70. Aquinas ’ Moral Philosophy
  71. IX OXFORD PHILOSOPHERS
  72. The Fourteenth-Century University
  73. Duns Scotus
  74. Ockham ’s Logic of Language
  75. Ockham ’s Political Theory
  76. The Oxford Calculators
  77. John Wyclif
  78. X RENAISSANCE PHILOSOPHY
  79. The Renaissance
  80. Free-will:Rome vs.Louvain
  81. Renaissance Platonism
  82. Machiavelli
  83. More ’s Utopia
  84. The Reformation
  85. Post-Reformation Philosophy
  86. Bruno and Galileo
  87. Francis Bacon
  88. XI THE AGE OF DESCARTES
  89. The Wars of Religion
  90. The Life of Descartes
  91. The Doubt and the Cogito
  92. The Essence of Mind
  93. God,Mind,and Body
  94. The Material World
  95. XII ENGLISH PHILOSOPHY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
  96. The Empiricism of Thomas Hobbes
  97. Hobbes ’ Political Philosophy
  98. The Political Theory of John Locke
  99. Locke on Ideas and Qualities
  100. Substances and Persons
  101. XIII CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE AGE OF LOUIS XIV
  102. Blaise Pascal
  103. Spinoza and Malebranche
  104. Leibniz
  105. XIV BRITISH PHILOSOPHY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
  106. Berkeley
  107. Hume ’s Philosophy of Mind
  108. Hume on Causation
  109. Reid and Common Sense
  110. XV THE ENLIGHTENMENT
  111. The Philosophes
  112. Rousseau
  113. Revolution and Romanticism
  114. XVI THE CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF KANT
  115. Kant ’s Copernican Revolution
  116. The Transcendental Aesthetic
  117. The Transcendental Analytic: The Deduction of the Categories
  118. The Transcendental Analytic: The System of Principles
  119. The Transcendental Dialectic: The Paralogisms of Pure Reason
  120. The Transcendental Dialectic: The Antinomies of Pure Reason
  121. The Transcendental Dialectic: The Critique of Natural Theology
  122. Kant ’s Moral Philosophy
  123. XVII GERMAN IDEALISM AND MATERIALISM
  124. Fichte
  125. Hegel
  126. Marx and the Young Hegelians
  127. Capitalism and its Discontents
  128. XVIII THE UTILITARIANS
  129. Jeremy Bentham
  130. The Utilitarianism of J.S.Mill
  131. Mill ’s Logic
  132. XIX THREE NINETEENTH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHERS
  133. Schopenhauer
  134. Kierkegaard
  135. Nietzsche
  136. XX THREE MODERN MASTERS
  137. Charles Darwin
  138. John Henry Newman
  139. Sigmund Freud
  140. XXI LOGIC AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF MATHEMATICS
  141. Frege ’s Logic
  142. Frege ’s Logicism
  143. Frege ’s Philosophy of Logic
  144. Russell ’s Paradox
  145. Russell ’s Theory of Descriptions
  146. Logical Analysis
  147. XXII THE PHILOSOPHY OF WITTGENSTEIN
  148. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
  149. Logical Positivism
  150. Philosophical Investigations
  151. AFTERWORD
  152. SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING
  153. INDEX
  154. Plate