Historical Introduction to Philosophy Texts and Interactive Guides

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ISBN: 9780195139846

ISBN-10: 0195139844

ISBN-13: 9780195139846

Edition: 2001

Authors: James Fieser, Norman Lillegard, Norman Lillegard, Norman Lillegard

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Offering a unique pedagogical apparatus, A Historical Introduction to Philosophy: Texts and Interactive Guides provides selections from the most influential primary works in philosophy from the Presocratics through the twentieth century, integrating them with substantial commentary and study questions. It offers extensive treatment of the Hellenistic and Renaissance periods--which are typically given only minimal coverage in other anthologies--and devotes substantial chapters to nineteenth- and twentieth-century philosophy. The selections are organized historically and are presented in short and manageable sections with organizational headings and subheadings; archaic and difficult material…

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List price: $139.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/3/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 736
Size: 9.09" wide x 7.40" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 2.926
Language: English

James Fieser is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee at Martin. He received his B.A. from Berea College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from Purdue University. He is author, co-author, or editor of ten textbooks, including SOCRATES TO SARTRE AND BEYOND (9/e 2011), ETHICAL THEORY: CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY READINGS (6/e 2010), A HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY (2003), and MORAL PHILOSOPHY THROUGH THE AGES (2001). He has edited and annotated the ten-volume EARLY RESPONSES TO HUME (2/e 2005) and the five-volume SCOTTISH COMMON SENSE PHILOSOPHY (2000). He is founder and general editor of the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy website (http://www.iep.utm.edu).



Preface: Time Line



Early Greek Philosophy


Introduction Homer and Hesiod Principal concerns of the Presocratics


Milesians Thales Anaximander Anaximenes


Other Ionians Xenophanes Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans Heraclitus


The Eleatics Parmenides Zeno


Pluralist Alternatives to Parmenides Empedocles Anaxagoras The Atomists: Parmenides as Pluralist


The Sophists: Rhetoric and Virtue for a Price Protagoras and Gorgias



Socrates And Plato


Introduction


Socrates The Euthyphro Meno The Apology


Plato Introduction to the Theory of Forms Phaedo The Republic Phaedrus



Aristotle


Introduction


Logical Works Categories


Nature and the Soul Physics On the Soul


Ethics Book 1 Book 2 Book 3



Hellenistic Philosophy


Epicureanism Atoms and Free Will


Fearing the Gods Fear of Death Pleasure and Pain Prudence and Freedom


Stoicism Zeno of Citium


Logic, Physics, and Ethics Epictetus


Cynicism Antisthenes and Diogenes


Skepticism Academics and Pyrrhonians


The Goal and Criterion of Skepticism


The Ten Modes of Skepticism



Medieval Philosophy


Augustine Book1 Good and Evil Book 2 Book 3


The Confessions: Augustine on Time


Anselm Proslogion 1


Averroes (from The Decisive Treatise Determining the Nature of the Connection Between Religion and Philosophy)



Philosophy and Religion Belong Together



The Elite and Ordinary Believers


Moses Maimonides (from The Guide for the Perplexed)


God and Biblical Language Thomas Aquinas (from Summa Theologica)


The Existence of God Natural Law



Renaissance And Early Modern Philosophy


Humanism Pico's Oration More's Utopia


The Reformation


Luther's Appeal Calvin's Institutes


Fideism and Skepticism Montaigne's Apology (from "Apology for Raymond Sebond")


Bayle's Dictionary (from "Psyrrho" in Historical and Critical Dictionary)


Pascal's Wager (from Thoughts)


The Earth-Centered System of the Universe Copernicus ("Dedication" to On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres)


Galileo (from "letter to Giacomo Muti," and Dialogues on the Two Chief Systems of the World)


Newton (from "Preface" to Principia Mathematica)


Implications of Modern Astronomy


Scientific Method Bacon and Induction Descartes's Method Newton's Method of Investigation (from Principia Mathematica and Optics)


Mathematics and Scientific Method



Rationalism


Rene Descartes Meditation 1: Concerning


Those Things That Can Be Called Into Doubt Meditation 2: Concerning the Nature of the Human Mind: That the Mind Is More Known


Than the Body Meditation 3: Of God


That He Exists Meditation 6: Of the Existence of Material Things, and of the Real Distinction between the Soul and Body of Man Supplementary


Selections Benedict Spinoza (from The Ethics)


God Does Not Willfully Direct the Course of Nature


Nicholas Malebranche (from The Search after Truth)






What Is Meant by Ideas


That They Truly Exist, and That They Are Necessary to Perceive All Material Objects



That We See All Things In God Occasionalism



Leibniz Monads Human Perception Good Body and Soul


The Human Spirit Against Atoms and a Vacuum



All Creatures Are Changeable Against Descartes, Hobbes, and Spinoza



British Empiricism




No Speculative Innate Principles in the Mind



Of Ideas in General and Their Origin



Of Simple Ideas



Of Simple Ideas of Sense



Of Simple Ideas of Diverse Senses



Of Simple Ideas of Reflection



Simple Ideas of Both Sensation and Reflection



Some Farther Considerations Concerning Our Simple Ideas



Of Complex Ideas



Of the Extent of Human Knowledge



Of Our Threefold Knowledge of Existence



Of Our Knowledge of the Existence of Other Things


George Berkeley Dialogue One Dialogue Two Dialogue Three


David Hume (from Enquiries and Treatise of Human Nature



Of the Origin of Ideas



Of the