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An Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy, 20th Anniversary Edition


An Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy, 20th Anniversary Edition


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von: Anthony Kenny

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Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 15.10.2018
ISBN/EAN: 9781119452805
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 480

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<p>In 1998, the first edition of Anthony Kenny's comprehensive history of Western philosophy was published, to be met with immediate praise and critical acclaim. As the first book since Bertrand Russell's 1945 <i>A History of Western Philosophy</i> to offer a concise single-author review of the complete history of philosophy from the pre-Socratics to the modern masters of the 20<sup>th</sup> century, Kenny's work fills a critical gap in the modern philosophy reading list and offers valuable guidance for the general reader of philosophy—an ideal starting point for anyone with an interest in great thinkers and the family lines of philosophical evolution.</p> <p>Widely considered to be one of the most thorough and accessible historical reviews in philosophy, <i>An Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy</i> has earned an estimable and distinctive reputation, both for the compelling writing style of Anthony Kenny, one of the most respected and accomplished living philosophers, and for the rich collection of paintings, illustrations, maps, and photos included with every chapter to complement this review of 2,500 years of philosophical thought.</p> <p>Newly revised and expanded for a special 20<sup>th</sup> anniversary publication, the latest edition of <i>An Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy</i> contains all of Kenny's original writings on the history of Western philosophy from ancient to modern, along with new writings on the philosophy of the mid-20<sup>th</sup> century, covering important contributions from continental philosophers and philosophers of the post-Wittgenstein anglophone tradition, including the work of many women who have too often been neglected by the historical record.</p>
<p>Preface xi</p> <p>List of Illustrations xv</p> <p>Acknowledgements xvii</p> <p>Introduction xix</p> <p><b>I PHILOSOPHY IN ITS INFANCY 1</b></p> <p>The Milesians 3</p> <p>Xenophanes 5</p> <p>Heraclitus 6</p> <p>The School of Parmenides 8</p> <p>Empedocles 14</p> <p>The Atomists 17</p> <p><b>II THE ATHENS OF SOCRATES 20</b></p> <p>The Athenian Empire 20</p> <p>Anaxagoras 22</p> <p>The Sophists 22</p> <p>Socrates 24</p> <p>The <i>Euthyphro</i> 26</p> <p>The <i>Crito</i> 29</p> <p>The <i>Phaedo</i> 30</p> <p><b>III THE PHILOSOPHY OF PLATO 36</b></p> <p>Life and Works 36</p> <p>The Theory of Ideas 38</p> <p>Plato’s <i>Republic</i> 41</p> <p>The <i>Theaetetus</i> and the <i>Sophist</i> 50</p> <p><b>IV THE SYSTEM OF ARISTOTLE 57</b></p> <p>Plato’s Pupil, Alexander’s Teacher 57</p> <p>The Foundation of Logic 59</p> <p>The Theory of Drama 63</p> <p>Moral Philosophy: Virtue and Happiness 64</p> <p>Moral Philosophy: Wisdom and Understanding 68</p> <p>Politics 71</p> <p>Science and Explanation 72</p> <p>Words and Things 74</p> <p>Motion and Change 76</p> <p>Soul, Sense, and Intellect 78</p> <p>Metaphysics 81</p> <p><b>V GREEK PHILOSOPHY AFTER ARISTOTLE 85</b></p> <p>The Hellenistic Era 85</p> <p>Epicureanism 87</p> <p>Stoicism 89</p> <p>Scepticism 91</p> <p>Rome and its Empire 93</p> <p>Jesus of Nazareth 94</p> <p>Christianity and Gnosticism 96</p> <p>Neo-Platonism 99</p> <p><b>VI EARLY CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY 102</b></p> <p>Arianism and Orthodoxy 102</p> <p>The Theology of Incarnation 105</p> <p>The Life of Augustine 107</p> <p>The City of God and the Mystery of Grace 110</p> <p>Boethius and Philoponus 113</p> <p><b>VII EARLY MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY 118</b></p> <p>John the Scot 118</p> <p>Alkindi and Avicenna 121</p> <p>The Feudal System 123</p> <p>Saint Anselm 124</p> <p>Abelard and Héloïse 126</p> <p>Abelard’s Logic 128</p> <p>Abelard’s Ethics 130</p> <p>Averroes 131</p> <p>Maimonides 133</p> <p><b>VIII PHILOSOPHY IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY 135</b></p> <p>An Age of Innovation 135</p> <p>Saint Bonaventure 138</p> <p>Thirteenth-Century Logic 140</p> <p>Aquinas’ Life and Works 141</p> <p>Aquinas’ Natural Theology 143</p> <p>Matter, Form, Substance, and Accident 145</p> <p>Aquinas on Essence and Existence 147</p> <p>Aquinas’ Philosophy of Mind 148</p> <p>Aquinas’ Moral Philosophy 149</p> <p><b>IX OXFORD PHILOSOPHERS 154</b></p> <p>The Fourteenth-Century University 154</p> <p>Duns Scotus 155</p> <p>Ockham’s Logic of Language 162</p> <p>Ockham’s Political Theory 164</p> <p>The Oxford Calculators 167</p> <p>John Wyclif 168</p> <p><b>X RENAISSANCE PHILOSOPHY 171</b></p> <p>The Renaissance 171</p> <p>Free-will: Rome vs. Louvain 172</p> <p>Renaissance Platonism 175</p> <p>Machiavelli 176</p> <p>More’s Utopia 179</p> <p>The Reformation 181</p> <p>Post-Reformation Philosophy 185</p> <p>Bruno and Galileo 187</p> <p>Francis Bacon 189</p> <p><b>XI THE AGE OF DESCARTES 194</b></p> <p>The Wars of Religion 194</p> <p>The Life of Descartes 195</p> <p>The Doubt and the <i>Cogito</i> 198</p> <p>The Essence of Mind 200</p> <p>God, Mind, and Body 201</p> <p>The Material World 20</p> <p><b>XII ENGLISH PHILOSOPHY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 209</b></p> <p>The Empiricism of Thomas Hobbes 209</p> <p>Hobbes’ Political Philosophy 211</p> <p>The Political Theory of John Locke 214</p> <p>Locke on Ideas and Qualities 216</p> <p>Substances and Persons 219</p> <p><b>XIII CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE AGE OF LOUIS XIV 224</b></p> <p>Blaise Pascal 224</p> <p>Spinoza and Malebranche 227</p> <p>Leibniz 232</p> <p><b>XIV BRITISH PHILOSOPHY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 237</b></p> <p>Berkeley 237</p> <p>Hume’s Philosophy of Mind 242</p> <p>Hume on Causation 246</p> <p>Reid and Common Sense 248</p> <p><b>XV THE ENLIGHTENMENT 251</b></p> <p>The <i>Philosophes</i> 251</p> <p>Rousseau 252</p> <p>Revolution and Romanticism 256</p> <p><b>XVI THE CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF KANT 259</b></p> <p>Kant’s Copernican Revolution 259</p> <p>The Transcendental Aesthetic 261</p> <p>The Transcendental Analytic: The Deduction of the Categories 263</p> <p>The Transcendental Analytic: The System of Principles 266</p> <p>The Transcendental Dialectic: The Paralogisms of Pure Reason 269</p> <p>The Transcendental Dialectic: The Antinomies of Pure Reason 271</p> <p>The Transcendental Dialectic: The Critique of Natural Theology 274</p> <p>Kant’s Moral Philosophy 276</p> <p><b>XVII GERMAN IDEALISM AND MATERIALISM 280</b></p> <p>Fichte 280</p> <p>Hegel 281</p> <p>Marx and the Young Hegelians 285</p> <p>Capitalism and its Discontents 287</p> <p><b>XVIII THE UTILITARIANS 290</b></p> <p>Jeremy Bentham 290</p> <p>The Utilitarianism of J. S. Mill 295</p> <p>Mill’s Logic 297</p> <p><b>XIX THREE NINETEENTH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHERS 301</b></p> <p>Schopenhauer 301</p> <p>Kierkegaard 307</p> <p>Nietzsche 310</p> <p><b>XX THREE MODERN MASTERS 313</b></p> <p>Charles Darwin 313</p> <p>John Henry Newman 318</p> <p>Sigmund Freud 322</p> <p><b>XXI LOGIC AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF MATHEMATICS 329</b></p> <p>Frege’s Logic 329</p> <p>Frege’s Logicism 331</p> <p>Frege’s Philosophy of Logic 334</p> <p>Russell’s Paradox 335</p> <p>Russell’s Theory of Descriptions 337</p> <p>Logical Analysis 340</p> <p><b>XXII CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY 342</b></p> <p>Henri Bergson 342</p> <p>Husserl’s Phenomenology 347</p> <p>The Existentialism of Heidegger 349</p> <p>The Existentialism of Sartre and de Beauvoir 351</p> <p><b>XXIII THE PHILOSOPHY OF WITTGENSTEIN 356</b></p> <p><i>Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus</i> 356</p> <p>Logical Positivism 359</p> <p><i>Philosophical Investigations</i> 361</p> <p><b>XXIV RECENT CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY 372</b></p> <p>The Frankfurt School 372</p> <p>Jacques Derrida 379</p> <p>Jurgen Habermas 382</p> <p><b>XXV RECENT ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY 388</b></p> <p>Elizabeth Anscombe 389</p> <p>W. V. O. Quine 390</p> <p>Donald Davidson 393</p> <p>Peter Geach 394</p> <p>Peter Strawson 396</p> <p>American Metaphysics 397</p> <p>The Cartesian Revival 399</p> <p>Analytical Ethics 401</p> <p>John Rawls 405</p> <p>Richard Rorty 406</p> <p>Afterword 409</p> <p>Suggestions for Further Reading 412</p> <p>Index 421</p>
<p><b>ANTHONY KENNY</b> has held many prestigious titles over the course of his career, including Master of Balliol College, Oxford; Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford; President of the British Academy; President of the Royal Institute of Philosophy; and Chair of the Board of the British Library. With over fifty books published in his career, his most recent works are <i>The Enlightenment: A Very Short History</i> (2017) and a memoir, <i>Brief Encounters,</i> to be published in September 2018.
<p>Praise for Previous Editions <p>"A richly detailed, critical look at philosophy, displaying both Kenny's love for philosophical engagement and for good history...Kenny's style is unpretentious, effective, and at times wonderfully informal and amiable." <p><i>Review of Metaphysics</i> <p>"…lucidly written with enough humour to cheer up the educated general reader even in the midst of the most arid of philosophical discussions." <p><i>Times Higher Education Supplement</i> <p>"This is simply a jolly good read, with pithy historical and biographical scene-setters, authoritative accounts of how successive philosophers have contributed to the development of Western thought, and often brilliant single-sentence summaries." <p><i>Church Times</i> <p>In 1998, the first edition of Anthony Kenny's comprehensive history of Western philosophy was published, to be met with immediate praise and critical acclaim. As the first book since Bertrand Russell's 1945 <i>A History of Western Philosophy</i> to offer a concise single-author review of the complete history of philosophy from the pre-Socratics to the modern masters of the 20<sup>th</sup> century, Kenny's work fills a critical gap in the modern philosophy reading list and offers valuable guidance for the general reader of philosophy—an ideal starting point for anyone with an interest in great thinkers and the family lines of philosophical evolution. <p>Widely considered to be one of the most thorough and accessible historical reviews in philosophy, <i>An Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy</i> has earned an estimable and distinctive reputation, both for the compelling writing style of Anthony Kenny, one of the most respected and accomplished living philosophers, and for the rich collection of paintings, illustrations, maps, and photos included with every chapter to complement this review of 2,500 years of philosophical thought. <p>Newly revised and expanded for a special 20<sup>th</sup> anniversary publication, the latest edition of <i>An Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy</i> contains all of Kenny's original writings on the history of Western philosophy from ancient to modern, along with new writings on the philosophy of the mid-20<sup>th</sup> century, covering important contributions from continental philosophers and philosophers of the post-Wittgenstein anglophone tradition, including the work of many women who have too often been neglected by the historical record.

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