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Philosophy and Philosophers

Author : John Shand
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317488156
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy and Philosophers written by John Shand and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised and updated edition of a standard work provides a clear and authoritative survey of the Western tradition in metaphysics and epistemology from the Presocratics to the present day. Aimed at the beginning student, it presents the ideas of the major philosophers and their schools of thought in a readable and engaging way, highlighting the central points in each contributor's doctrines and offering a lucid discussion of the next-level details that both fills out the general themes and encourages the reader to pursue the arguments still further through a detailed guide to further reading. Whether John Shand is discussing the slow separation of philosophy and theology in Augustine, Aquinas and Ockham, the rise of rationalism, British empiricism, German idealism or the new approaches opened up by Russell, Sartre and Wittgenstein, he combines succinct but insightful exposition with crisp critical comment. This new edition will continue to provide students with a valuable work of initial reference.

An Introduction to Western Philosophy

Author : Antony Flew
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500270134
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Western Philosophy written by Antony Flew and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

DOES THE CENTER HOLD? AN INTRODUCTION TO WESTERN PHILOSOPHY

Author : DONALD. PALMER
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Higher Education
ISBN 13 : 1260808513
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book DOES THE CENTER HOLD? AN INTRODUCTION TO WESTERN PHILOSOPHY written by DONALD. PALMER and published by McGraw-Hill Higher Education. This book was released on 2020 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Western Philosophy

Author : John G. Cottingham
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405124784
Total Pages : 882 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Western Philosophy written by John G. Cottingham and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-11-28 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western Philosophy: An Anthology provides the most comprehensive and authoritative survey of the Western philosophical tradition from ancient Greece to the leading philosophers of today. Features substantial and carefully chosen excerpts from all the greats of philosophy, arranged thematically and chronologically Readings are introduced and linked together by a lucid philosophical commentary which guides the reader through the key arguments Embraces all the major subfields of philosophy: theory of knowledge and metaphysics, philosophy of mind, religion and science, moral philosophy (theoretical and applied), political theory, and aesthetics Updated edition now includes additional contemporary readings in each section Augmented by two completely new sections on logic and language, and philosophy and the meaning of life

A New History of Western Philosophy: Medieval philosophy

Author : Anthony Kenny
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book A New History of Western Philosophy: Medieval philosophy written by Anthony Kenny and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here readers will find not only an authoritative guide to the history of philosophy, but also a compelling introduction to every major area of philosophical inquiry.

An Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy

Author : Anthony Kenny
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405178604
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book An Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy written by Anthony Kenny and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-04 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

An Unconventional History of Western Philosophy

Author : Karen Warren
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0742559246
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book An Unconventional History of Western Philosophy written by Karen Warren and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical exclusion of women's voices has diminished academic disciplines, including philosophy. In this groundbreaking new account of Western philosophy throughout the past 2,600 years, Karen J. Warren has paired sixteen women philosophers along-side their historical male contemporaries in conversations on philosophy. An overview essay, together with chapter introductions, primary readings, and expert commentaries, offer a rich description and evaluation of each philosopher's vital contributions to Western philosophy. Book jacket.

The Concise Encyclopedia of Western Philosophy and Philosophers

Author : J. O. Urmson
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415078830
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Concise Encyclopedia of Western Philosophy and Philosophers written by J. O. Urmson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully revised third edition of this Concise Encyclopedia brings it completely up-to-date. Featuring lively and engaging entries by some of the leading philosophers of our age, it is a readable reference work and engaging introduction.

Western Philosophy

Author : James Nicholas Jordan
Publisher : Pearson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Western Philosophy written by James Nicholas Jordan and published by Pearson. This book was released on 1987 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-six hundred years ago, among the Ionian Greeks, there arose the kind of reasoned inquiry after truth that characterizes philosophy in Western civilization. A path with many twists and turns (and desolate stretches as well) is traceable from this ancient beginning to the types of philosophy pursued in the West today. The aim of the present volume is to acquaint the reader with landmarks along this path as far as the end of the Middle Ages, until about 1350, when the Renaissance began its work of shaping the modern era. Western philosophers of the Ancient and Medieval periods have had great influence not only upon later philosophers but also upon the general culture of the West. Politics, religion, the arts, the sciences, the very notions that pass for common sense -- all have been complexly affected, directly and indirectly, by the philosophical methods and findings of Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Plotinus, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Ockham, and others to be examined herein. Some knowledge of these thinkers is essential to any real understanding of the whys and wherefores of Western cultural history. Moreover, because most of the philosophicl issues investigated in modern times first came up in Ancient or Medieval discussions, a grasp of the latter is necessary to a just estimate of more recent discussions and to an avoidance of blind alleys and delayed insights in one's own philosophical reflections. It is also true that the ideas and intellectual careers of Ancient and Medieval philosophers are matters of absorbing interest on their own account. Simply as personalities these thinkers are extraordinary, and their respective contributions toward overcoming the "reign of chaos and old night" are among the noblest of human achievements. - Introductory note.

An Introduction to Western Philosophy

Author : Antony Flew
Publisher : Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Western Philosophy written by Antony Flew and published by Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill. This book was released on 1971 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an introduction to philosophy which, as is explained more fully in Chapter 1, synthesizes two methods: that of beginning with readings from the classics; and that of the ordinary textbook, written as such. One fundamental aim has been to ensure continuous readability; while at the same time providing both an Index of Notions and an Index of Names, intended to facilitate a different sort of reading for later revision and reinforcement. It is in accordance with this fundamental aim that the readings from the classics are worked into a single continuous book, and not segregated into a separate supplementary part.

Western Philosophy

Author : John G. Cottingham
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405124784
Total Pages : 882 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Philosophy and Philosophers

Author : John Shand
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317488148
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy and Philosophers written by John Shand and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised and updated edition of a standard work provides a clear and authoritative survey of the Western tradition in metaphysics and epistemology from the Presocratics to the present day. Aimed at the beginning student, it presents the ideas of the major philosophers and their schools of thought in a readable and engaging way, highlighting the central points in each contributor's doctrines and offering a lucid discussion of the next-level details that both fills out the general themes and encourages the reader to pursue the arguments still further through a detailed guide to further reading. Whether John Shand is discussing the slow separation of philosophy and theology in Augustine, Aquinas and Ockham, the rise of rationalism, British empiricism, German idealism or the new approaches opened up by Russell, Sartre and Wittgenstein, he combines succinct but insightful exposition with crisp critical comment. This new edition will continue to provide students with a valuable work of initial reference.

The Beginning of Western Philosophy

Author : Martin Heidegger
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253015618
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Beginning of Western Philosophy written by Martin Heidegger and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a close reading of two presocratic philosophers, Heidegger demonstrates that all of Western philosophy is rooted in the question of Being. This volume comprises a lecture course given at the University of Freiburg in 1932, five years after the publication of Being and Time. During this period, Heidegger was at the height of his creative powers, which are on full display in this clear and imaginative text. Heidegger analyses two of the earliest philosophical source documents, fragments by Greek thinkers Anaximander and Parmenides. Heidegger develops their common theme of Being and non-being and shows that the question of Being is indeed the origin of Western philosophy. His engagement with these Greek texts is as much of a return to beginnings as it is a potential reawakening of philosophical wonder and inquiry in the present.

The Oxford Illustrated History of Western Philosophy

Author : Sir Anthony Kenny
Publisher : Oxford University Press, UK
ISBN 13 : 9780191590399
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Illustrated History of Western Philosophy written by Sir Anthony Kenny and published by Oxford University Press, UK. This book was released on 1997-03-06 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a team of distinguished scholars, this is an authoritative and comprehensive history of Western philosophy from its earliest beginnings to the present day. The book is illustrated with over 150 colour and black-and-white pictures, chosen to illuminate and complement the text. Now in paperback, this lively and readable volume is an ideal introduction to philosophy for anyone interested in the history of ideas. An outstanding team of contributors... Stephen. R. L. Clark on Ancient Philosophy Paul Vincent Spade on Medieval Philosophy Anthony Kenny on Descartes to Kant Roger Scruton on Continental Philosophy from Fichte to Sartre David Pears and Anthony Kenny on Mill to Wittgenstein Anthony Quinton on Political Philosophy - ;Written by a team of distinguished scholars, this is an authoritative and comprehensive history of Western philosophy from its earliest beginnings to the present day. The book is illustrated with over 150 colour and black-and-white pictures, chosen to illuminate and complement the text. Lively and readable, this is an ideal introduction to philosophy for anyone interested in the history of ideas. `a wonderfully lucid exposition of difficult ideas' Tablet `Anthony Kenny, the editor of this courageously erudite compendium, reminds us that philosophy has always been fascinated by the interweaving of words and images, while artists have played upon philosophic concepts.' Observer - ;Preface; Ancient Philosophy; Medieval Philosophy; Descartes to Kant; Continental Philosophy from Fichte to Sartre; Mill to Wittgenstein; Political Philosophy; Conclusion: Contemporary Philosophy. - ;a wonderfully lucid exposition of difficult ideas - Tablet;Anthony Kenny, the editor of this courageously erudite compendium, reminds us that philosophy has always been fascinated by the interweaving of words and images, while artists have played upon philosophic concepts. - Observer

Rethinking the Western Understanding of the Self

Author : Ulrich Steinvorth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052176274X
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking the Western Understanding of the Self written by Ulrich Steinvorth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-22 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Ulrich Steinvorth offers a fresh analysis and critique of rationality as a defining element in Western thinking. Steinvorth argues that Descartes' understanding of the self offers a more plausible and realistic alternative to the prevailing understanding of the self formed by the Lockean conception and utilitarianism. When freed from Cartesian dualism, such a conceptualization enables us to distinguish between self and subject. Moreover, it enables us to understand why individualism - one of the hallmarks of modernity in the West - became a universal ideal to be granted to every member of society; how acceptance of this notion could peak in the seventeenth century; and why it is now in decline, though not irreversibly so. Most importantly, the Cartesian concept of the self presents a way of saving modernity from the dangers that it now encounters.

The Pelican History of Western Philosophy

Author : D. W. Hamlyn
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pelican History of Western Philosophy written by D. W. Hamlyn and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1989 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Great Philosophers

Author : Bryan Magee
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019289322X
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book The Great Philosophers written by Bryan Magee and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author interviews modern philosophers and writers such as Martha Nussbaum and Peter Singer on the major figures in the history of Western philosophy, from Plato and Aristotle to Russell and Wittgenstein.