Description |
xviii, 393 pages ; 24 cm. |
Series |
SUNY series in systematic philosophy
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SUNY series in systematic philosophy.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
Contents |
pt. 1. Philosophical achievements of the ancient Greeks: In appreciation of the pre-Socratics -- Lessons from Greek atomism for modern thought -- Plato's near miss: soul as self-moved -- Aristotle's modal view of time and eternity -- Stoics, skeptics, and Greek mystics -- Sketch of Greek ethics and aesthetics -- pt. 2. Between the Greeks and the moderns: Medieval philosophy on general -- What did Anselm discover? -- Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, and others -- pt. 3. Modern (European) philosophers: "The Moses of modern philosophy" -- Spinoza: first of the moderns or last of the medievals? -- "Clearheaded" philosopher -- Hume's metaphysics and its influence -- Neglect of relative predicates in modern philosophy -- Kant's traditionalism -- Schopenhauer's synthesis of East and West: the worst of two worlds -- Unity of opposites in Hegel and Schelling -- Kierkegaard on subjectivity and freedom -- Marxism and metaphysics -- Nietzsche's "Death of God" and deification of causality -- Lotze, Fechner, Cournot, and other nineteenth-centry forerunners of process metaphysics -- pt. 4. Recent or contemporary (European) philosophers: Russell and Whitehead: a comparison -- Husserl and Whitehead on the concrete -- Mind and matter in Rhyl, Ayer, and Croce -- Reflections on Wittgenstein -- Karl Popper on Whitehead -- Husserl's most famous (and heretical) disciple -- Sartre: philosopher, novelist, playwright, political writer -- Merleau-Ponty from an Anglo-American perspective. |
Local Note |
Gift of Paul and Mary Haas. |
Subject |
Philosophy -- History.
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Philosophy. |
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History. |
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Philosophie -- Histoire. |
ISBN |
0873956818 |
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9780873956819 |
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0873956826 paperback |
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9780873956826 paperback |
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