Great Philosophers

Name: Great Philosophers
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ISBN: 9780151369423

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Karl Jaspers died in 1969, leaving unfinished his universal history of philosophy, a history organized around those philosophers who have influenced the course of human thought. The first two volumes of this work appeared in Jaspers's lifetime; the third and fourth have been culled from the vast material of his posthumous papers. This is the third volume; the fourth is to be published in 1994. In the present volume, which follows his original plan of promoting the happiness that comes of meeting great men and sharing in their thoughts, Jaspers discusses the Metaphysicians: Xenophanes, Empedocles, Democritus, Bruno, Epicurus, Boehme, Schelling, and Leibniz. Then he turns to the Creative…

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Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Foreword
The Projective Metaphysicians	p. 1
Piety Toward the World	p. 5
Xenophanes
Life	p. 9
Position and Meaning of This Philosophy; The Symposium	p. 10
The Natural Conception of the World	p. 11
God	p. 12
The Ethos	p. 15
The Limit of Man	p. 16
Historical Place and Influence	p. 16
Characterization	p. 18
Democritus
Background; Democritus and Athens	p. 20
Democritus' Atomism	p. 21
The Sciences in Relation to the Theory of Atoms	p. 27
Ethos and Ethics	p. 27
Characterization	p. 31
Empedocles
Life; the Sicilian World; Legends; Writings	p. 34
The Basic Experience	p. 36
The Theory	p. 36
The Practice of Salvation	p. 44
Cognition at Its Limits	p. 46
The Deity, the Gods, the Divine	p. 51
Empedocles' Self-consciousness	p. 52
Critical Characterization and Historical Position	p. 53
Bruno
Orientation in Intellectual History: Mythical Philosophy of Nature	p. 57
A Philosopher in the Grand Manner	p. 59
Philosophy Become Religion	p. 59
The New Attitude toward Church and Theology	p. 60
The Singing Fighter	p. 61
The Vision of the Infinite Universe	p. 62
Heroic Love	p. 63
Critical Appreciation	p. 64
Tranquillity Without Transcendence	p. 65
Epicurus
Life and Works	p. 67
Survey	p. 69
Gnostic Dreamers	p. 113
Boehme
Life	p. 117
The Schema of a Systematic Reproduction	p. 120
Boehme's Ethos	p. 138
Characterizations	p. 140
Boehme's Influence	p. 141
Schelling
Work	p. 143
Constructive Minds	p. 169
Leibniz
Basic Thought	p. 172
The Monadology	p. 174
Shipwreck of the Rationality Inherent in the Universal	p. 177
Characterization of the Personal Aspect	p. 178
Characterization of the Work	p. 180
The Existential Question	p. 182
Creative Orderers	p. 185
Aristotle
First Philosophy	p. 196
The Basic Concepts	p. 196
The Concept of God	p. 202
The Individual Sciences: Man as Point of Departure	p. 207
Aristotle's Cosmos and Natural Science	p. 208
Science and Philosophy	p. 211
Scientiic Inquiry and System	p. 212
Philosophy	p. 215
Aristotle's Power to Stimulate and to Paralyze	p. 217
Plato and Aristotle	p. 218
Hegel
The Dialectic	p. 221
Examples of the Dialectic	p. 222
Analysis of the Dialectic	p. 258
Characterization and Critique of Hegelian Dialectic	p. 282
Fragments	p. 288
Bibliography	p. 299
Index of Names	p. 305
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