World Philosophies

A Historical Introduction
2. Revised Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-631-23261-2
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 592 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 1071 g

This popular text has now been revised to ensure that it continues to meet the needs of the growing number of people interested in all the main philosophical traditions of the world.
- Introduces all the main philosophical systems of the world, from ancient times to the present day.

- Now includes new sections on Indian and Persian thought and on feminist and environmental philosophy.

- The preface and bibliography have also been updated.

- Written by a highly successful textbook author.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cooper, David E.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to second edition vii

1 Introduction 1

Part I: Ancient Philosophies 9

2 India 13

3 China 58

4 Greece 92

Part II: Middle Period and 'Modern' Philosophies: 147

5 Medieval Philosophies 151

6 Developments in Asian Philosophy 203

7 From Renaissance to Enlightenment 241

Part III: Recent Philosophies: 307

8 Kant and the Nineteenth Century 311

9 Recent Non-Western Philosophies 377

10 Twentieth-Century Western Philosophies 426

Bibliography 505

Index 527

Über Autor(innen)

David E. Cooper is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Durham and Director of the Durham Institute of Comparative Ethics'. He is the author of a number of books, including Metaphor (1986) and Existentialism (1990, second edition 1999). He is also editor of A Companion to Aesthetics (1992), and four volumes in the series Philosophy: The Classic Readings – Aesthetics (1997), Ethics (1997), Epistemology (1999) and Metaphysics (2000). These titles are all published by Blackwell Publishing.