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A new history of Western philosophy : in four parts /

This book is no less than a guide to the whole of Western philosophy -- the ideas that have undergirded our civilization for two-and-a-half thousand years. Anthony Kenny tells the story of philosophy from ancient Greece through the Middle Ages and the Enlightenment into the modern world. He introduc...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kenny, Anthony, 1931-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press, 2010.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • General Introduction; Part One: Ancient Philosophy; List of Contents of Part One; Introduction to Part One; 1. Beginnings: From Pythagoras to Plato; 2. Schools of Thought: From Aristotle to Augustine; 3. How to Argue: Logic; 4. Knowledge and its Limits: Epistemology; 5. How Things Happen: Physics; 6. What There Is: Metaphysics; 7. Soul and Mind; 8. How to Live: Ethics; 9. God; Part Two: Medieval Philosophy; List of Contents of Part Two; Introduction to Part Two; 1. Philosophy and Faith: Augustine to Maimonides; 2. The Schoolmen: From the Twelfth Century to the Renaissance.
  • 3. Logic and Language4. Knowledge; 5. Physics; 6. Metaphysics; 7. Mind and Soul; 8. Ethics; 9. God; Part Three: The Rise of Modern Philosophy; List of Contents of Part Three; Introduction to Part Three; 1. Sixteenth-Century Philosophy; 2. Descartes to Berkeley; 3. Hume to Hegel; 4. Knowledge; 5. Physics; 6. Metaphysics; 7. Mind and Soul; 8. Ethics; 9. Political Philosophy; 10. God; Part Four: Philosophy in the Modern World; List of Contents of Part Four; Introduction to Part Four; 1. Bentham to Nietzsche; 2. Peirce to Strawson; 3. Freud to Derrida; 4. Logic; 5. Language; 6. Epistemology.
  • 7. Metaphysics8. Philosophy of Mind; 9. Ethics; 10. Aesthetics; 11. Political Philosophy; 12. God; Chronology; Abbreviations and Conventions; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.