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Author : John William Angell,Robert M. Helm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:834591654
Author : J. William Angell,John William Angell,Robert Meredith Helm
Publisher : University Press of Amer
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Civilization, Western
ISBN : 0819168440
Author : Dennis Waite
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781785357794
Charting the history of Western thought from Socrates to Sartre, from Epicureans to Existentialists, Western Philosophy Made Easy offers a short, readable historical summary of aspects of Western philosophy and key philosophers from Ancient Greece to the modern day, with the emphasis on topics of direct relevance to our own lives.
Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 940 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005405415
First published in 1946, History of Western Philosophy went on to become the best-selling philosophy book of the twentieth century. A dazzlingly ambitious project, it remains unchallenged to this day as the ultimate introduction to Western philosophy. Providing a sophisticated overview of the ideas that have perplexed people from time immemorial, it is 'long on wit, intelligence and curmudgeonly scepticism', as the New York Times noted, and it is this, coupled with the sheer brilliance of its scholarship, that has made Russell's History of Western Philosophy one of the most important philosophical works of all time. -- Publisher description.
Author : Eric Walter Frederick Tomlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Philosophers
ISBN : 0948059079
Author : John G. Cottingham
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781119165743
The new edition of this celebrated anthology surveys the Western philosophical tradition from its origins in ancient Greece to the work of today’s leading philosophers Western Philosophy: An Anthology provides an authoritative guided tour through the great tradition of Western philosophical thought. The seminal writings of the great philosophers along with more recent readings of contemporary interest are explored in 144 substantial and carefully chosen extracts, each preceded by a lucid introduction, guiding readers through the history of a diverse range of key arguments, and explaining how important theories fit into the unfolding story of Western philosophical inquiry. Broad in scope, the anthology covers all the main branches of philosophy: theory of knowledge and metaphysics, logic and language, philosophy of mind, the self and freedom, religion and science, moral philosophy, political theory, aesthetics, and the meaning of life, all in self-contained parts which can be worked on by students and instructors independently. The third edition of the Anthology contains newly incorporated classic texts from thinkers such as Aquinas, Machiavelli, Descartes, William James, and Wittgenstein. Each of the 144 individual extracts is now followed by sample questions focusing on the key philosophical problems raised by the excerpt, and accompanied by detailed further reading suggestions that include up-to-date links to online resources. Also new to this edition is an introductory essay written by John Cottingham, which offers advice to students on how to read and write about a philosophical text. Part of the Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies series, Western Philosophy: An Anthology, Third Edition remains an indispensable collection of classic source materials and expert insights for both beginning and advanced university students in a wide range of philosophy courses.
Author : John Canfield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134935734
Volume 10 of the Routledge History of Philosophy presents a historical survey of the central topics in twentieth century Anglo-American philosophy. It chronicles what has been termed the 'linguistic turn' in analytic philosophy and traces the influence the study of language has had on the main problems of philosophy. Each chapter contains an extensive bibliography of the major writings in the field. All the essays present their large and complex topics in a clear and well organised way. At the end, the reader finds a helpful Chronology of the major political, scientific and philosophical events in the Twentieth Century and an extensive Glossary of technical terms.
Author : Dr Robert Wilkinson
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781409486008
Nishida Kitaro (1870–1945) is the most important Japanese philosopher of the last century. His constant aim in philosophy was to try to articulate Zen in terms drawn from Western philosophical sources, yet in the end he found that he could not do so, and his thought illustrates a conceptual incommensurability at the deepest level between the main line of the Western tradition and one of the main lines in Eastern thought. This book is a work of comparative philosophy. Attention is given to the consequences of Nishida's metaphysics in the areas of ethics, aesthetics, the philosophy of religion and notably the implications of Nishida's example for the question of pluralism. This study of Nishida brings into sharp focus the question of whether, faced with a conceptual incommensurability at as deep a level as that manifested by Zen, the choice between it and its Western alternative can be wholly rational.
Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1549905546
"The Value of Philosophy" is one of the most important chapters of Bertrand's Russell's magnum Opus, The Problems of Philosophy. As a whole, Russell focuses on problems he believes will provoke positive and constructive discussion, Russell concentrates on knowledge rather than metaphysics: If it is uncertain that external objects exist, how can we then have knowledge of them but by probability. There is no reason to doubt the existence of external objects simply because of sense data.
Author : Justin Pack
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498591355
Love in many premodern cultures extended to and permeated the world or even the cosmos, but love in contemporary consumerist society tends to be sexualized, romanticized, and individualized. As a result, ancient visions of ethical love are difficult for moderns to comprehend, especially those rooted in premodern Western thought, or Native American thinkers that describe a love of the natural world that would help us live more responsibly on the Earth. This volume retrieves the significant narratives of love of the world and the concomitant ethical ramifications of those visions and argues that our age of science and technology has destroyed the ancient, living cosmos of previous visions and replaced it with a mechanical universe. This shift has resulted in various forms of destruction, diminishment, and forgetfulness. Overcoming modern world alienation requires recovering a sense of what it means to love the world and changing our practices to reflect our interconnection with it and our interdependency on it.
Author : David B. Zilberman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006-08-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402033407
This book is unusual in many respects. It was written by a prolific author whose tragic untimely death did not allow to finish this and many other of his undertakings. It was assembled from numerous excerpts, notes, and fragments according to his initial plans. Zilberman’s legacy still awaits its true discovery and this book is a second installment to it after The Birth of Meaning in Hindu Thought (Kluwer, 1988). Zilberman’s treatment of analogy is unique in its approach, scope, and universality for Western philosophical thought. Constantly compared to eastern and especially classical Indian interpretations, analogy is presented by Zilberman as an important and in many ways primary method of philosophizing or philosophy-building. Due to its universality, this method can be also applied in linguistics, logic, social analysis, as well as historical and anthropological research. These applications are integral part of Zilberman’s book. A prophetic leap to largely uncharted territories, this book could be of considerable interest for experts and novices in the field of analogy alike.
Author : John V. Canfield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136767418
The twentieth century brought enormous change to subjects such as language, metaphysics, ethics and epistemology. This volume covers the major developments in these areas and more.
Author : Hugh P. McDonald
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004495814
This book treats values as the basis for all of philosophy, an approach distinct from critiquing theories of value and far rarer. “First Philosophy,” the effort to justify the foundations for a system of philosophy, is one of the main issues that divide philosophers today. McDonald’s philosophy of values is a comprehensive attempt to replace philosophies of “existence,” “being,” “experience,” the “subject,” or “language,” with a philosophy that locates value as most basic. This transformation is a radical move within Western philosophy as a whole, since it has never been done in such a thoroughgoing way. Hugh P. McDonald makes a comprehensive case against first philosophy as metaphysical, by mounting a case against all metaphysical systems of philosophy. Radical Axiology: A First Philosophy of Values is a fresh start for a rebirth of philosophy. While other movements debate the “death of philosophy,” this book radically re-evaluates the direction of philosophy by discovering values at the basis of all philosophy. This reorientation addresses the question of what the love of wisdom can mean for us today.
Author : Raymond Angelo Belliotti
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004408791
Belliotti unravels the paradoxes of human existence to reveal paths for crafting meaningful, significant, valuable, even important lives. He argues that human life is not inherently absurd; examines the implications of mortality; contrasts subjective and objective meaning, and evaluates contemporary renderings of meaningful human lives.
Author : Eric Walter Frederick Tomlin
Publisher : South Asia Books
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Philosophers
ISBN : 8120201973
