Looking at Philosophy

The Unbearable Heaviness of Philosophy Made Lighter
3. Revised Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-7674-0596-6
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe

Buch, Englisch, 436 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1089 g

Organized historically and augmented by more than 400 cartoons designed to make teaching and learning more fun, this lighthearted work born of serious scholarship can be used as a core text or as a supplement in introductory courses.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Palmer, Donald

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. THE PRE-SOCRATIC PHILOSOPHERS: SIXTH AND FIFTH CENTURIES B.C.E. Thales / Anaximander / Anaximenes / Pythagoras / Heraclitus / Parmenides / Zeno / Empedocles / Anaxagoras / Leucippus and Democritus 2. THE ATHENIAN PERIOD: FIFTH AND FOURTH CENTURIES B.C.E. The Sophists: Protagoras, Gorgias, Thrasymachus, Callicles and Critias / Socrates / Plato / Aristotle 3. THE HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN PERIODS: FOURTH CENTURY B.C.E THROUGH FOURTH CENTURY C.E. Epicureanism / Stoicism / Neoplatonism 4. MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE PHILOSOPHY: FIFTH THROUGH THE FIFTEENTH CENTURIES Saint Augustine / The Encyclopediasts / John Scotus Eriugena / Saint Anselm / Muslim and Jewish Philosophies: Averroës, Maimonides / The Problem of Faith and Reason / The Problem of Universals / Saint Thomas Aquinas / William of Ockham 5. CONTINENTAL RATIONALISM AND BRITISH EMPIRICISM: THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES Descartes / Hobbes / Spinoza / Leibniz / Locke / Berkeley / Hume / Kant 6. POST-KANTIAN BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY Hegel / Schopenhauer / Kierkegaard / Marx / Nietzsche / Utilitarianism: Bentham, Mill / Frege 7. PRAGMATISM, THE ANALYTIC TRADITION, AND THE PHENOMENONOLOGICAL TRADITION AND ITS AFTERMATH: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Pragmatism: Peirce, James, Dewey / The Analytic Tradition: Moore, Russell, Logical Positivism, Wittgenstein, Quine / The Phenomenonological Tradition and Its Aftermath: Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre / Structuralism and Poststructuralism: Saussure, Lévi-Strauss, Lacan, Derrida, Irigaray Glossary Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Palmer, Donald
Donald Palmer received his Bachelors and Masters degrees from the Univ. of California, Berkeley and his Doctorate of Philosophy and Letters at the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain.  He has published a number of philosophy books, including Looking at Philosophy, Does the Center Hold? and Why Its Hard to Be Good (McGraw-Hill), and, more popularly, Kierkegaard for Beginners, Sartre for Beginners, and Structuralism and Post-Structuralism for Beginners.  He has recently completed a manuscript on Don Quixote titled Philosophy and Madness in La Mancha.  He taught for many years at the College of Marin, in California, and finished his teaching career at North Carolina State University.  He and his wife divide their time among North Carolina, the San Francisco Bay Area, and the Lot Valley in Southwestern France.