Essentials of Philosophy: The Basic Concepts of the World's Greatest Thinkers [Reprint ed.] 076078180X, 9780760781807

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Cover
Back Cover
Title
Contents
Introduction: What's It All About?
1. It's Greek to Me
Presocratic Efforts
Pluralists: All Kinds of Stuff
Leucippus and Democritus: The Atomic Duo
Spin City-States: The Sophists
2. The Three Sages: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
Socrates
Plato
Plato's Republic
Aristotle
3. The Decline and Fall of the Hellenistic Period
The End of Greek Prominence
The Cynics
Epicureanism: The Pleasure Principle
Stoicism
Skepticism: Perception Is Reality
Cicero and the Eclectics
Neoplatonism: End of an Epoch
4. The Medieval Mind
The Christian Church and Philosophy
Augustine of Hippo
Anselm's Ontological Argument
Thomas Aquinas
John Duns Scotus
Roger Bacon
William of Ockham
5. The Renaissance Period
Creativity Abounds
Cosimo de Medici
Nicholas of Cusa
Bernardino Telesio
Giordano Bruno
Nicco1o Machiavelli
6. Humanism
What's It All About?
Francesco Petrarca
Desiderius Erasmus
Sir Thomas More
7. The Protestant Reformation
The Fall of the Catholic Church
Martin Luther
John Calvin
The Catholic Counter-Reformation
8. The Scientific Revolution
The Heliocentric Theory
The Return of Skepticism
The Invention of the Printing Press
9. Approaching Modern Times
Francis Bacon
Rene Descartes
Thomas Hobbes
Baruch Spinoza
Gottfried Leibniz
10. British Empiricism
The Concept of Innateness
John Locke
George Berkeley
David Hume
11. The French Enlightenment
The Philosophes
Montesquieu
Voltaire
Jean Jacques Rousseau
12. German Idealism
Immanuel Kant
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Friedrich Wilhelm Josef von Schelling
George W. F. Hegel
Arthur Schopenhauer
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
13. Utilitarianism
Jeremy Bentham
John Stuart Mill
The Feminist
14. The American Transcendentalists
Transcendentalism Today
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
William Ellery Channing
Amos Bronson Alcott
15. Phenomenology and Existentialism
Edmund Husserl
Soren Kierkegaard
Martin Heidegger
Albert Camus
Jean-Paul Sartre
16. Modern and Postmodern Philosophers
Bertrand Russell
Ludwig Josef Johan Wittgenstein
Michel Foucault
Jacques Derrida
17. Sociology and Anthropology
Sociology
Karl Marx
Max Weber
Emile Durkheim
Anthropology
18. Psychology
The Roots of Psychology
Sigmund Freud
Carl Gustav Jung
Behaviorism
Humanistic Psychology
And the Rest
19. Eastern Schools of Thought
Hinduism
Buddhism
Taoism
Confucianism
Shinto
Sufism
20. The Big Three Religions
For Better and for Worse
Judaism
Christianity
Islam
Final Thought
21. Objectivism and the Right Livelihood
Objectivism: Looking Out for No. 1
Right Livelihood: Doing the Right Thng
22. The Forgotten Philosophers
"Primitive" Cultures
African Philosophy
Native American Philosophy
Black Elk Speaks
The Medicine Wheel
23. Twelve Steps to a Better Life
Alcohol in Society
The Effects of Alcohol
The Path to Rehabilitation
New Hope for the Alcoholic
The Philosophy Behind AA
The Twelve Steps
AA and God
Twelve Traditions
Anonymity as a Philosophy
Remaining Financially Independent
Adaptat]on by Other Organizauons
24. Everything Old Is New Age Again
So Just What Is New Age?
It's Not New at All
Reincarnation
Soul Mates
I Ching
Astrology
Numerology
Mandala Drawing
25. Philosophy and the Couch Potato
Philosophy Beyond the Classroom
Star Trek
The Prisoner
The Fugitive
Emma Peel: Feminist Icon
Appendix A: Glossary of Philosophical Terms
Appendix B: Who's Who in Philosophy
Index