Voyage of Discovery A Historical Introduction to Philosophy

Name: Voyage of Discovery A Historical Introduction to Philosophy
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ISBN: 9780534520229

ISBN-10: 0534520227

ISBN-13: 9780534520229

Edition: 2nd 2002 (Revised)

Authors: William F. Lawhead

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Highly praised by reviewers for its clarity and rich exposition, this history of philosophy text illustrates philosophy as a process and not just a collection of opinions or conclusions. Lawhead helps students retrace the philosopher's intellectual journey rather than simply giving a report of the results so that the students see how the problems arose. Thus the philosopher's problem becomes a puzzle which the student has to face. Lawhead uses metaphors, analogies, vivid images, concrete examples, common experiences, and diagrams to bring the abstract issues down to earth and show the practical implications and contemporary relevance of positions.

Book details

List price: $111.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 8/29/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 624
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.442
Language: English

Preface	p. xviii
Introduction: A Brief Tour Guide to Philosophy	p. xxii
Philosophy Is Not an Optional Experience in Your Life!	p. xxii
Philosophical Ideas in Unlikely Places	p. xxii
Why Ideas Are Like Colds	p. xxiv
What Is Philosophy, Anyway?	p. xxv
Commonplace Notions of Philosophy	p. xxv
Philosophers and Lovers	p. xxv
Philosophical Criteria	p. xxvi
Assessing Arguments	p. xxvii
Becoming an Active Reader: Tactics and Strategies	p. xxix
Philosophy, Bike Riding, and Baseball Cards	p. xxix
A Strategy for Reading Philosophy	p. xxix
A General Map of the Terrain	p. xxxi
The Ancient Period	p. 1
The Greek Cultural Context: From Poetry to Philosophy	p. 3
The Role of the Poets	p. 3
The Birth of Western Philosophy	p. 6
Outline of Classical Philosophy	p. 7
Greek Philosophy Before Socrates	p. 8
The Milesian Philosophers	p. 8
Pythagoras and His School	p. 13
Xenophanes	p. 15
Heraclitus	p. 16
Parmenides and the Eleatics	p. 19
The Pluralists	p. 23
Democritus and the Atomists	p. 25
The Sophists and Socrates	p. 29
The Sophists	p. 29
Socrates	p. 33
Plato: The Search for Ultimate Truth and Reality	p. 45
Plato's Life: From Student to University President	p. 45
Plato's Task: Making Philosophy Comprehensive	p. 46
Theory of Knowledge: Reason Versus Opinion	p. 46
Metaphysics: Shadows and Reality	p. 52
Moral Theory	p. 56
Political Theory	p. 60
Plato's Cosmology: Purpose and Chance	p. 63
Evaluation and Significance	p. 64
Aristotle: Understanding the Natural World	p. 68
Aristotle's Life: Biologist, Tutor, and Philosopher	p. 68
Plato and Aristotle	p. 69
Theory of Knowledge: Finding Universals Within Particulars	p. 71
Metaphysics: Understanding the Here-and-Now World	p. 75
Ethics: Keeping Things in Balance	p. 80
Evaluation and Significance	p. 85
Classical Philosophy After Aristotle	p. 88
The Transition to Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy	p. 88
Cynicism	p. 89
Epicureanism	p. 90
Stoicism	p. 94
Skepticism	p. 99
Plotinus and Neoplatonism	p. 102
The Middle Ages	p. 109
Cultural Context: The Development of Christian Thought	p. 111
The Encounter Between Greek and Christian Thought	p. 111
The Problem of Faith and Reason	p. 113
Challenging Heresies and Clarifying Orthodoxy	p. 116
The Future Agenda: A Christian Philosophical Synthesis	p. 120
St. Augustine: Philosophy in the Service of Faith	p. 122
Augustine's Life: From Passionate Pleasure to a Passionate Faith	p. 122
Augustine's Task: Understanding the Human Predicament	p. 124
Theory of Knowledge: The Truth Is Within	p. 125
Metaphysics: God, Creation, Freedom, and Evil	p. 128
Philosophy of History and the State	p. 133
Evaluation and Significance	p. 136
Early Medieval Philosophy	p. 139
From the Roman World to the Middle Ages	p. 139
A Survey of the Early Middle Ages	p. 139
The Byzantine and Islamic Empires	p. 141
An Overview of Medieval Philosophy	p. 141
Early Medieval Philosophy	p. 142
The Return to Darkness	p. 147
Philosophy and Theology in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries	p. 149
The Flowering of the Middle Ages	p. 149
The Rise of Scholasticism	p. 151
St. Anselm	p. 157
Peter Abelard	p. 159
Islamic Philosophers	p. 161
Jewish Philosophers	p. 164
The Rediscovery of Aristotle in Europe	p. 165
St. Thomas Aquinas: Aristotle's Philosophy and Christian Thought	p. 167
The Ox That Roared	p. 167
Aquinas's Task: Integrating Philosophy and Faith	p. 168
The Nature of Knowledge: Reason Processing Experience	p. 171
Metaphysics: From the World to God	p. 172
Moral Philosophy: Human Nature and Divine Law	p. 177
Political Philosophy	p. 180
Evaluation and Significance	p. 181
The Unraveling of the Medieval Synthesis	p. 184
John Duns Scotus	p. 186
William of Ockham	p. 188
Changes in the Methods of Science	p. 194
Mysticism	p. 195
The Decline of Medieval Philosophy	p. 196
The Modern Period	p. 199
Cultural Context: Renaissance, Reformation, and the Rise of Modern Science	p. 201
Renaissance Humanism	p. 202
The Protestant Reformation	p. 204
Social and Political Changes	p. 205
The Rise of Modern Science	p. 206
Philosophy in a New Key	p. 209
Early Empiricists: Francis Bacon and Thomas Hobbes	p. 212
Francis Bacon	p. 212
Thomas Hobbes	p. 217
Rene Descartes: Founder of Modern Philosophy	p. 226
Descartes's Life: World Traveler and Intellectual Explorer	p. 226
Descartes's Philosophical Agenda	p. 227
The Discovery of a Method	p. 228
Finding the Foundations of Knowledge	p. 229
Metaphysics: God, World, Minds, and Bodies	p. 232
Evaluation and Significance	p. 240
Benedict (Baruch) Spinoza: Rationalist and Mystic	p. 243
Spinoza's Life: Heresy, Lens Grinding, and Philosophy	p. 243
Task: To Achieve Freedom from Bondage	p. 244
Spinoza's Geometrical Method	p. 245
Theory of Knowledge: Necessity Rules	p. 245
Metaphysics: God Is the Only Reality	p. 247
Ethics: How to Be Free from Bondage	p. 251
Evaluation and Significance	p. 254
Gottfried Leibniz: The Optimistic Rationalist	p. 257
Leibniz's Life: Diplomat, Scientist, and Philosopher	p. 257
Task: The Search for Unity and Harmony	p. 258
Method: Logic Is the Key	p. 258
Theory of Knowledge: Unpacking the Truths of Reason	p. 259
Metaphysics: God as the Divine Programmer	p. 262
Evaluation and Significance	p. 268
Cultural Context: The Enlightenment and the Age of Newton	p. 272
The Impact of Newton's Science	p. 272
Philosophizing in a Newtonian Style	p. 274
The Consequences for Religion	p. 275
The French Enlightenment	p. 276
Summary of the Enlightenment	p. 277
John Locke: The Rise of Modern Empiricism	p. 279
Physician, Political Adviser, and Philosopher	p. 279
Locke's Task: Discovering What We Can Know	p. 280
Locke's Method for Analyzing Ideas	p. 280
Locke's Empirical Theory of Knowledge	p. 281
Metaphysics: The Reality Behind the Appearances	p. 285
What Is the Source of Moral Knowledge?	p. 286
An Empirical Philosophy of Religion	p. 287
A Political Theory for the Enlightenment	p. 288
Evaluation and Significance	p. 291
George Berkeley: Following the Road of Empiricism	p. 295
Philosopher, Educator, and Bishop	p. 295
Berkeley's Task: Battling Skepticism and Unbelief	p. 296
Berkeley's Reform of Empiricism	p. 297
Metaphysics: Reality as Mind and Ideas	p. 302
Evaluation and Significance	p. 307
David Hume: The Scottish Skeptic	p. 310
Hume's Life: A Passion for Literary Fame	p. 310
Task: Unlocking the Secrets of Human Nature	p. 311
Theory of Knowledge: The Gulf Between Reason and the World	p. 311
Metaphysics: Skeptical Doubts About Reality	p. 314
Ethics: The Rule of the Passions--The Slavery of Reason	p. 317
Philosophy of Religion: Searching for What We Cannot Find	p. 320
Evaluation and Significance	p. 322
Immanuel Kant: Finding the Powers and the Limits of the Mind	p. 325
Kant's Life: A Methodical Man with Revolutionary Thoughts	p. 325
Task: Avoiding Dogmatism and Skepticism	p. 326
Theory of Knowledge: The Mind Makes Experience Possible	p. 327
Metaphysics: Bumping Against the Limits of Reason	p. 334
Ethics as a Rational Discipline	p. 339
Evaluation and Significance	p. 345
The Nineteenth-Century Cultural Context: Romanticism, Science, and the Sense of History	p. 347
Overcoming the Kantian Dualism	p. 347
German Idealism	p. 348
Romanticism	p. 351
The Importance of History	p. 353
Questions about Reason and Subjectivity	p. 356
Summary of the Nineteenth-Century Agenda	p. 358
G. W. F. Hegel: Biographer of the World Spirit	p. 360
Hegel's Life: From Average Student to World-Famous Philosopher	p. 360
Task: Fitting the Pieces of History and Reality Together	p. 361
Theory of Knowledge: Reason Reveals Reality	p. 362
Metaphysics: Reason Becoming Self-Conscious	p. 366
Ethics and Community Life	p. 369
Political Philosophy: The Glorification of the State	p. 372
Philosophy of History: Are We Pawns in History's Game?	p. 373
Evaluation and Significance	p. 376
Karl Marx: A Philosophy for Changing the World	p. 379
Marx's Life: The Making of a Radical	p. 380
Marx's Background and Influences	p. 380
Task: Achieving an Earthly Salvation	p. 382
The Early Marx: The Tragedy of Human Alienation	p. 384
Historical Materialism	p. 386
Marx's Analysis of Capitalism	p. 393
Communism: The New Humanity and the New Society	p. 395
Evaluation and Significance	p. 396
Soren Kierkegaard: The Founder of Religious Existentialism	p. 399
The Stages in Kierkegaard's Life: From Passionate Playboy to Passionate Christian	p. 400
Task: To Make Life More Difficult	p. 401
Kierkegaard's Method: Indirect Communication	p. 402
Kierkegaard on Knowledge: Truth and Subjectivity	p. 403
Kierkegaard the Antimetaphysician: Existence, Time, Eternity	p. 405
Stages on Life's Way	p. 407
Christianity as the Paradox and the Absurd	p. 411
Evaluation and Significance	p. 413
Friedrich Nietzsche: The Founder of Secular Existentialism	p. 416
Nietzsche's Life: The Lonely Prophet	p. 416
Task: The Journey from Darkness to Daybreak	p. 417
Nietzsche's Theory of Knowledge: Perspectives and Instincts	p. 418
Living Without Metaphysical Hopes	p. 422
Moral Values and Personality Types	p. 424
Evaluation and Significance	p. 429
Nineteenth-Century Empiricism: Comte, Bentham, and Mill	p. 433
Auguste Comte	p. 434
Jeremy Bentham	p. 438
John Stuart Mill	p. 442
The Contemporary Period	p. 451
The Twentieth-Century Cultural Context: Science, Language, and Experience	p. 453
Living in Kant's Shadow	p. 454
Philosophy: Piecemeal Analysis or Grasping the Big Picture?	p. 454
The Role of Science in Philosophy	p. 456
The Role of Language and Experience in Philosophy	p. 456
Pragmatism: The Unity of Thought and Action	p. 460
Charles Sanders Peirce	p. 462
William James	p. 466
John Dewey	p. 471
Process Philosophy: Bergson and Whitehead	p. 479
Henri Bergson	p. 480
Alfred North Whitehead	p. 487
Analytic Philosophy and the Linguistic Turn	p. 499
Bertrand Russell	p. 500
Logical Positivism	p. 506
Ludwig Wittgenstein	p. 510
Conceptual Analysis	p. 520
Phenomenology and Existentialism	p. 527
Edmund Husserl	p. 528
Martin Heidegger	p. 534
Jean-Paul Sartre	p. 546
Recent Issues in Philosophy	p. 556
Rethinking Empiricism	p. 556
Rethinking Philosophy: Postmodernism	p. 559
Rethinking Philosophy: Feminism	p. 564
Philosophy in a Global Village	p. 567
New Issues in Philosophy of Mind	p. 568
New Issues in Ethics	p. 568
A Parting Word	p. 569
Glossary	p. 572
Index	p. 580
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