Philosophy: History and Readings

8 Rev ed
ISBN: 978-0-07-353576-0
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe

Buch, Englisch, 960 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 1178 g

This text offers an accessible historical survey of philosophical ideas and a wealth of primary source readings at an excellent value. The text is a comprehensive, historically organized introduction to philosophy, which communicates the richness of the discipline and provides the student with a working knowledge of the development of Western philosophy. With a lively and approachable style it covers the principal contributions of Western civilization's most influential philosophers. The topically organized reader features a chronological organization within the topics and a wide selection of readings. Primarily a selection of Western philosophy, the fifth edition also includes classic Eastern philosophy texts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stumpf, Samuel Enoch

Fieser, James

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Book I: SOCRATES TO SARTRE AND BEYOND: A HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHYPreface to Socrates to Sartre and BeyondPART ONE: ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHY1. Socrates's Predecessors2. The Sophists and Socrates3. Plato4. AristotlePART TWO: HELLENISTIC AND MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY5. Classical Philosophy After Aristotle6. Augustine7. Philosophy in the Early Middle Ages8. Aquinas and his Late Medieval SuccessorsPART THREE: EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY9. Philosophy during the Renaissance10. Rationalism on the Continent11. Empiricism in Britain12. Enlightenment PhilosophyPART FOUR: LATE MODERN AND NINETEENTH CENTURY PHILOSOPHY13. Kant14. German Idealism15. Utilitarianism and Positivism16. Kierkegaard, Marx, and NietzschePART FIVE: TWENTIETH CENTURY AND CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY17. Pragmatism and Process Philosophy18. Analytic Philosophy19. Phenomenology and Existentialism20. Recent PhilosophyAppendix: Classical Eastern Philosophy: Hinduism, Buddhism,Confucianism, DaoismGlossary of Key ConceptsIndex

Book II: CLASSIC READINGS IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHYPART ONE: ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHYREADING 1: Presocratic Philosophy: Ultimate Reality (from Fragments)READING 2: Plato: Does God Create Morality? (from Euthyphro, complete)READING 3: Plato: A Life Worth Living (from The Apology, complete)READING 4: Plato: Obedience to the State (from Crito, complete)READING 5: Plato: Knowledge and Immortality of the Soul (from The Republic and Phaedo)READING 6: Aristotle: Nature, the Soul, Moral Virtue and Society (from Physics, Metaphysics, On the Soul, Nicomachean Ethics, and Politics)PART TWO: HELLENISTIC AND MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHYREADING 1: Epicurus: Pleasure and Life's Aim (from Letter to Menoeceus, complete)READING 2: Lucretius: The Mind as Body (from On the Nature Of Things)READING 3: Epictetus: Resigning Oneself to Fate (from Handbook)READING 4: Sextus Empiricus: The Goals and Methods of Skepticism (from Outlines of Pyrrhonism)READING 5: Augustine: On Skepticism, The Two Cities and Our Primary Good (from On the Trinity, City of God and Of the Morals of the Catholic Church)READING 6: Anselm: The Ontological Argument (from Proslogium)READING 7: Thomas Aquinas: God’s Existence and Natural Law (from Summa Theologica)PART THREE: EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHYREADING 1: Blaise Pascal: Wagering on Belief in God (from Thoughts)READING 2: Thomas Hobbes: The Social Contract (from De Cive)READING 3: René Descartes: Certainty and the Mind (from Meditations and The Passions of the Soul)READING 4: Anne Conway: Blurring the Distinction between Mind and Body (from Principles)READING 5: John Locke: The Origin of All Our Ideas in Experience (from Essay concerning Human Understanding)READING 6: George Berkeley: Consciousness, Not Matter, the True Reality (from Three Dialogues)READING 7: David Hume: The Self, Experience, Determinism, Miracles and God’s Existence (from Treatise Enquiry, and Dialogues concerning Natural Religion)READING 8: Voltaire: On the Best of All Possible Worlds (from Philosophical Dictionary)READING 9: Thomas Reid: The Argument for Free Will from Commonsense Beliefs (from Essays On The Active Powers Of Man)READING 10: Mary Wollstonecraft: The Rights of Women (from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman)READING 11: William Paley: The Design Argument from Analogy Defended (from Natural Theology)PART FOUR: LATE MODERN AND NINETEENTH CENTURYREADING 1: Immanuel Kant: Pure Reason and the Categorical Imperative (from The Critique Of Pure Reason and Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals)READING 2: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Lordship-Bondage and World History (from Phenomenology of Spirit and The Philosophy of Right)READING 3: Søren Kierkegaard: Faith and Paradox (from Fear and Trembling)READING 4: John Stuart Mill: Liberty and Util

Über Autor(innen)

Stumpf, Samuel Enoch
Samuel Enoch Stumpf was Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Emeritus Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University prior to his death in 1998, at the age of eighty. He earned a B.S. in Business and Finance from the University of California at Los Angeles, a B.D. in Theology from Andover Newton Theological School, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Chicago. He joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 1948 and served as Chair of the Philosophy Department from 1952 to 1967. After a five-year term as President of Cornell College, Professor Stumpf returned to Vanderbilt, where he remained until his retirement in 1984. Professor Stumpfs publications include Democratic Manifesto (1954), Morality and the Law (1966), and four McGraw-Hill textbooks: Socrates to Sartre: A History of Philosophy (1966; 6th ed., posthumous, 1999); Philosophical Readings: Selected Problems (1971; 4th ed., 1994); Philosophy: History and Problems (1971; 5th ed., 1994); and Elements of Philosophy: An Introduction (1979; 3rd ed., 1993).

Fieser, James
James Fieser is a 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 Philosophy: A Historical Survey with Essential Readings (9/e 2014), Scriptures of the World's Religions (5/e 2014), Ethics: Discovering Right and Wrong (7/e 2012), Business Ethics and the Bottom Line (2012), 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 web site (www.iep.utm.edu). His personal website can be accessed at www.utm.edu/staff/jfieser.