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Wisdom Seekers Great Philosophers of the Western World

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ISBN-10: 0155062174

ISBN-13: 9780155062177

Edition: 2002

Authors: James L. Christian

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Oriented toward historical philosophy or introductory philosophy courses, this text seeks to acquaint students with the history of western critical thinking in an accessible and appealing format. The WISDOM SEEKERS gathers together a multitude of insights into man's eternal attempts to make sense of the human story. Coverage ranges from the beginnings of philosophical thought, the pre-Socratic philosophers, the Golden Age of Athens, the eclipse of philosophy throughout the Dark Ages, its resurrection during the Renaissance, the emergence of empirical philosophy during the last four centuries, and the career of philosophy during the twentieth century and its eclipse by the sciences.
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List price: $140.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 9/25/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 250
Size: 7.75" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.530
Language: English

Invitation and Acknowledgments
Modern Philosophy Begins: Rebuilding Foundations
The New Scientists: Bacon, Galileo, Newton
The Shifting
Philosophy
The Empirical Tradition
Sir Francis Bacon: "All Knowledge Is My Province"
In the History of Philosophy
The Man
Idols of the Mind
The Instauratio Magna
The Baconian Legacy
Galileo Galilei of Padua: "The Noblest Eye Is Darkened"
In the History of Philosophy
The Man
The Heavens
Scientist and Heretic
Motion
Empiricism
Mathematics
Qualities
Experiment
Inquisition
"The Noblest Eye Is Darkened"
Postcript
Sir Isaac Newton: "I Stand on the Shoulders of Giants"
In the History of Philosophy
The Man
The Latter Years
The New Scientific Worldview
The New Cosmology
The New Theology
The New Humanism
The New Philosophy of History
The New Epistemology
The Continental Rationalists: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, and Pascal
The Rationalist Tradition
Rene Descartes: Je pense, donc je suis
The Dreams
In the History of Philosophy
The Man
Writings
Women
The Method
Methodical Doubt
Axioms
Cogito, Ergo Sum
God Exists
Material Objects
Two Substances
Polymath
Decartes's God
Comment
Impact
Baruch Spinoza: The Prince of Rationalists
Philosopher
In the History of Philosophy
Marranos
The Man
Geometrician
Understanding the Philosopher
Metaphysics
Metaphysics
Metaphysics
Epistemology: Three Kinds of Knowledge
Ethics: Three Grades of Pleasure
Metaphysics/Ethics: Determinism and Free Will
Epistemology/Ethics: The Subjective and the Real
Psychology/Ethics: Emotions and Passions
Ethics: "Fate Is a Friend"
Psychology/Ethics: The Paradox of Freedom
Politics: The State
Epistemology: Coherence
Ethics
Coda
Comment
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz: The Universal Genius
The Man
The Nature of Reality
Time, Space, and Motion
Arguments for God
The Best of All Possible Worlds
Blaise Pascal: The Heart Has Its Reasons
Reason and Faith
The Man
Head and Heart
The Wager
Anti-Intellect
From Bruno to Dryden
The Introspective Empiricists: Locke, Berkeley, and Hume
The Eighteenth Century
John Locke: "Thought Trying to Catch Its Own Tail"
In the History of Philosophy
The Man
Oates Manor
Personal
Writings
Locke's Essay
There Are No Innate Ideas
White Paper
Theory of Language
General Ideas
Political Philosophy
Bishop George Berkeley: The Irish Immaterialist
In the History of Philosophy
The Man
Materialism
Immaterialism
Ramifications
Berkeley's Empiricism
The Sciences
God's Messages
Coda: "Dear Sir ..."
David Hume: The Science of Man
Experimental Method
In the History of Philosophy
The Man
Writings
Perceptions
Perception, Coherence, and Reality
A Bundle of Perceptions
Causality
Abstractions
Morality
Politics
Religion
Miracles
Immortality
Animal Minds
Skepticism
Common Sense and Sanity
Immanuel Kant: The Copernican Revolution of the Mind
Quicksand
In the History of Philosophy
The Revolution
The Man
Personal
Later Years
Writings
The Critiques
Transcendental Philosophy: The First Critique
Judgments
Transcendental Aesthetic: Apriori Space and Time
The Nature of Mind
Perception and Reality
Transcendental Dialectic: The Antinomies
The Second Critique
Transcendental Ethics
The Third Critique
Nineteenth-Century Philosophy: A Philosophy for Every Season
G. W. F. Hegel of Berlin
The Nineteenth Century
G. W. F. Hegel: "Reason Directs the World"
The System
In the History of Philosophy
The Man
Tubingen
Berne
Frankfurt Am Main
Jena
Bamberg
Major Concepts in the Phenomenology
Three Corollaries
Nuremberg
Heidelberg
Berlin
Posthumous Publications
Final Years
Soren Kierkegaard of Copenhagen
Hegel's Legacy
Soren Kierkegaard: "I Smile with One Face, I Weep with the Other"
Anguish
In the History of Philosophy
The Man
Writings
Philosophy
Charles Darwin of Kent
Perspectives
Inventory
Where Things Stood
In the History of Philosophy
The Man
Consilience
The Origin of Species
Personal
Final Years
After Darwin
Addenda and Perspective
Karl Marx of London
Untamed
In the History of Philosophy
The Man
Prophetic Tradition
Paris
Brussels
Paris and Cologne
London 1850-1864
London 1864-1883
The International
Paris Commune
Final Decade
From Earth to Heaven (Not Vice Versa)
The Young Hegelians
History
Teleological Drama
Alienation
Truth
The Classless Society
Friedrich Nietzsche of Saxony
Loneliness
In the History of Philosophy
First Years
The School Years
The Teaching Years
Early Writing
The Prophet Zarathustra
The Eternal Cycle Returns
Last Writings
Intellectual Death
The Nietzsche Myth
In Summary
One American Naturalist: Henry David Thoreau of Concord and Walden Pond
Meditation
The Individual
In the History of Philosophy
The Experiment
The Man
Walden Pond
The Traveler
Aloneness and Healing
"If I Am Not I, Who Will Be?"
Final Years
Twentieth-Century Philosophy: In Search of Vocation
An Overview of Twentieth-Century Philosophy
At a Banquet
Major Streams of Thought
Pragmatism
Existentialism
Analytic Philosophy
Other Twentieth-Century Philosophers
A Random Gathering
Aristotelian Wonderment and Modern Philosophy
Perspective
The American Pragmatists
Pragmatism
Charles Peirce: Metaphysics and Moonshine
Without Oxygen
In the History of Philosophy
The Man
Origins of Pragmatism
Theory of Meaning
William James: Truth Happens to an Idea
The Family
In the History of Philosophy
The Man
Turning Point
Pragmatic Belief
Pragmatic Truth
Truth and Consequences
Radical Empiricism
Harvard Professor
John Dewey: The Reconstruction of Philosophy
Quest for Light
In the History of Philosophy
The Man
Darwin's Breakthrough
Comment on Style
The British Analysts
Rise of Analytic Philosophy
Bertrand Russell: The Creation of Philosophical Logic
Three Passions
In the History of Philosophy
The Man
Philosophy and Writings
Philosophy through His Books
Coda
Ludwig Wittgenstein: Dissolving the Riddles of Language
"I Think Not Stupid"
In the History of Philosophy
The Man
Philosophy as Method
The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Benediction
Albert Schweitzer of Lambarene
We Have No Right
In the History of Philosophy
The Man
University
Historical Reconstruction
The Messiah
Preparations
Lambarene
What Is Civilization?
The Iron Door
Reverence for Life
Europe and Africa
Henri Bergson of Paris
Charismatic
On Criticism
In the History of Philosophy
The Man
Spencer
Two Ways of Knowing
Two Kinds of Time
Duration and Experience
Evolution
Morality and Religion
Code and Instruction Manual
The French Existentialists
Life
Albert Camus: "When Day Tumbles into Night"
Resistance
In the History of Philosophy
Algiers
Wartime Paris
Aftermath
Fame
Sisyphus
The Absurd
Morality and the Absurd
Jean-Paul Sartre: "You Are Free, Therefore Choose ..."
Obscure
In the History of Philosophy
The Man
The Lecture
Human Reality
Two Modes of Being
Mauvaise Foi
Coda
Philosophy in the Age of Science: Securing Empirical Foundations
Overture to the Empirical Century
The Golden Age of the Empirical Sciences
The Three Great Streams of Discovery
Physics
Biology
Psychology
The Twentieth-Century Physicists: Albert Einstein of Zurich and the Quantum Physicists
The Kijker
Albert Einstein: "Blazing Rockets in the Dark of Night"
The Wonder Year
In the History of Philosophy
The Man
Einstein and Physics
Einstein and Philosophy
The Quantum Universe
The Depth Psychologists
The Mind Scientists
The Study of the Soul: Paradigm and Variations
The Puzzlement
Precritical Psychology
Critical Psychology
Sigmund Freud: Disturbing the World's Sleep
Empirical Psychology
In the History of Philosophy
The Unconscious
The Man
Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice
Growth of the Psychoanalytic Movement
The Tragic Year
Carl Gustav Jung: Rediscovering the Individual
Freud Versus Jung
In the History of Philosophy
The Man
Two Kinds of Thinking
Nature of the Unconscious
Arnold Toynbee and the Synoptic Vision
Idiot's Tale
Patterns
Progress
Arnold Toynbee and the Synoptic Vision
Olympian
The Man
A Study of History
The Egocentric Illusion
Joseph Campbell and the Mythic Journey
De Profundis
In the History of Philosophy
The Man
The Masks of God
The Hero's Journey
World Transition
The Human Quest
Affirmation
Lexicon
Credits
Index