The Voyage of Discovery
豆瓣
A Historical Introduction to Philosophy
Lawhead, William F.
简介
Review
"It is the best written survey history of philosophy textbook I have found (and I have looked at many of them). . . . I know I sound like a Lawhead fan club, but I really like these textbooks, and they have helped me in the teaching of these courses."
"This book is an excellent survey of the history of western philosophy--ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary--through the 'great figures' approach."
contents
Introduction: A Brief Tour Guide to Philosophy.
Part I: THE ANCIENT PERIOD.
1. The Greek Cultural Context: From Poetry to Philosophy.
2. Greek Philosophy Before Socrates.
3. The Sophists and Socrates.
4. Plato: The Search for Ultimate Truth and Reality.
5. Aristotle: Understanding the Natural World.
6. Classical Philosophy After Aristotle.
Part II: THE MIDDLE AGES.
7. Cultural Context: The Development of Christian Thought.?
8. St. Augustine: Philosophy in the Service of Faith.
9. Early Medieval Philosophy.
10. Philosophy and Theology in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries.
11. St. Thomas Aquinas: Aristotle's Philosophy and Christian Thought.
12. The Unraveling of the Medieval Synthesis.
Part III: THE MODERN PERIOD.
13. Cultural Context: Renaissance, Reformation, and the Rise of Modern Science.
14. Early Empiricists: Francis Bacon and Thomas Hobbes.
15. Rene Descartes: Founder of Modern Philosophy.
16. Benedict (Baruch) Spinoza: Rationalist and Mystic.
17. Gottfried Leibniz: The Optimistic Rationalist.
18. Cultural Context: The Enlightenment and the Age of Newton.
19. John Locke: The Rise of Modern Empiricism.
20. George Berkeley: Following the Road of Empiricism.
21. David Hume: The Scottish Skeptic.
22. Immanuel Kant: Finding the Powers and the Limits of the Mind.
23. The Nineteenth-Century Cultural Context: Romanticism, Science, and the Sense of History.
24. G. W. F. Hegel: Biographer of the World Spirit.
25 Karl Marx: A Philosophy for Changing the World.
26. Søren Kierkegaard: The Founder of Religious Existentialism.
27. Friedrich Nietzsche: The Founder of Secular Existentialism.
28. Nineteenth-Century Empiricism: Comte, Bentham, and Mill. Part
IV: THE CONTEMPORARY PERIOD.
29. The Twentieth-Century Cultural Context: Science, Language, and Experience.
30. Pragmatism: The Unity of Thought and Action.
31. Analytic Philosophy and the Linguistic Turn.
32. Phenomenology and Existentialism.
33. Recent Issues in Philosophy. Glossary.
Index.
