Williams / Burnyeat The Sense of the Past

Essays in the History of Philosophy
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-2710-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 416 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Williams, Bernard

Burnyeat, Myles

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface by Patricia Williams ix

Introduction by Myles Burnyeat xiii

Greek: General

Chapter One: The Legacy of Greek Philosophy 3

Chapter Two: The Women of Trachis: Fictions, Pessimism, Ethics 49

Chapter Three: Understanding Homer: Literature, History and Ideal Anthropology 60

Socrates and Plato

Chapter Four: Pagan Justice and Christian Love 71

Chapter Five: Introduction to Plato's Theaetetus 83

Chapter Six: Plato against the Immoralist 97

Chapter Seven: The Analogy of City and Soul in Plato's Republic 108

Chapter Eight: Plato's Construction of Intrinsic Goodness 118

Chapter Nine: Cratylus' Theory of Names and Its Refutation 138

Chapter Ten: Plato: The Invention of Philosophy 148

Aristotle

Chapter Eleven: Acting as the Virtuous Person Acts 189

Chapter Twelve: Aristotle on the Good: A Formal Sketch 198

Chapter Thirteen: Justice as a Virtue 207

Chapter Fourteen: Hylomorphism 218

Descartes

Chapter Fifteen: Descartes' Use of Scepticism 231

Chapter Sixteen: Introductory Essay on Descartes' Meditations 246

Chapter Seventeen: Descartes and the Historiography of Philosophy 257

Hume

Chapter Eighteen: Hume on Religion 267

Sidgwick

Chapter Nineteen: The Point of View of the Universe: Sidgwick and the Ambitions of Ethics 277

Nietzsche
Chapter Twenty: Nietzsche's Minimalist Moral Psychology 299

Chapter Twenty-One: Introduction to The Gay Science 311

Chapter Twenty-Two: "There are many kinds of eyes" 325

Chapter Twenty-Three: Unbearable Suffering 331

R. G. Collingwood

Chapter Twenty-Four: An Essay on Collingwood 341

Wittgenstein

Chapter Twenty-Five: Wittgenstein and Idealism 361

Bernard Williams: Complete Philosophical Publications 381

Über Autor(innen)

Bernard Williams was Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge (1967-1979) and Provost of King's College. He held the Monroe Deutsch Professorship of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley (1998-2000) and was White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford (1990-2003). He was Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford until his death in 2003. Myles Burnyeat is Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy, All Souls College, Oxford. His books include The 'Theaetetus' of Plato (Hackett, 1990) and A Map of Metaphysics Zeta (Mathesis Publications, 2001).