New History of Western Philosophy

Name: New History of Western Philosophy
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ISBN: 9780199589883

ISBN-10: 0199589887

ISBN-13: 9780199589883

Edition: 2010

Authors: Anthony Kenny

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This book is no less than a guide to the whole of Western philosophy -- the ideas that have undergirded our civilization for two-and-a-half thousand years. Anthony Kenny tells the story of philosophy from ancient Greece through the Middle Ages and the Enlightenment into the modern world. He introduces us to the great thinkers and their ideas, starting with Plato, Aristotle, and the other founders of Western thought. In the second part of the book he takes us through a thousand yearsof medieval philosophy, and shows us the rich intellectual legacy of Christian thinkers like Augustine, Aquinas, and Ockham. Moving into the early modern period, we explore the great works of Descartes, Hobbes,…

Book details

List price: $32.49
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 8/26/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 1008
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.29" long x 2.33" tall
Weight: 3.784
Language: English



General Introduction



Ancient Philosophy


List of Contents of Part 1


Introduction to Part 1



Beginnings: From Pythagoras to Plato



Schools of Thought: From Aristotle to Augustine



How to Argue: Logic



Knowledge and its Limits: Epistemology



How Things Happen: Physics



What There Is: Metaphysics



Soul and Mind



How to Live: Ethics



God



Medieval Philosophy


List of Contents of Part 2


Introduction to Part 2



Philosophy and Faith: Augustine to Maimonides



The Schoolmen: From the Twelfth Century to the Renaissance



Logic and Language



Knowledge



Physics



Metaphysics



Mind and Soul



Ethics



God



The Rise of Modern Philosophy


List of Contents of Part 3


Introduction to Part 3



Sixteenth-Century Philosophy



Descartes to Berkeley



Hume to Hegel



Knowledge



Physics



Metaphysics



Mind and Soul



Ethics



Political Philosophy



God



Philosophy in the Modern World


List of Contents of Part 4


Introduction to Part 4



Bentham to Nietzsche



Peirce to Strawson



Freud to Derrida



Logic



Language



Epistemology



Metaphysics



Philosophy of Mind



Ethics



Aesthetics



Political Philosophy



God


Chronology


Abbreviations and Conventions


Bibliography


Index