A short history of philosophy / Robert C. Solomon, Kathleen M. Higgins.
Solomon, Robert C.; Higgins, Kathleen Marie.
1996
B72 .S66 1996 (Mapit)
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A short history of philosophy / Robert C. Solomon, Kathleen M. Higgins.
Author
Solomon, Robert C.
ISBN
0195086473 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
9780195086478 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
0195101960 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
9780195101966 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
Publication Details
New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Language
English
Description
xvii, 329 pages ; 25 cm
Call Number
B72 .S66 1996
Dewey Decimal Classification
109
Summary
Philosophy is a singularly expansive enterprise, a fascinating outgrowth of a human nature that demands we question who and why we are. In A Short History of Philosophy, the most accessible concise portrait of philosophy in seventy years, Robert Solomon and Kathleen Higgins meet the challenge of accurately and engagingly describing it all, reveling in philosophy as "the art of wonder," the search for meaning, a gripping, dramatic endeavor.
With a clear, witty style and a flair for making complex ideas accessible, the authors also convincingly demonstrate the relevance of philosophy to our times, emphasizing the legacy of the revolutions wrought by science, industry, colonialism, and sectarian warfare, and the philosophical responses to the traumas of the twentieth century (including two world wars and the Holocaust): existentialism, positivism, postmodernism, feminism, and multiculturalism among them. But Solomon and Higgins go beyond merely retelling the rich history of philosophy; the authors provide their own twists and interpretations of events, resulting in a story that reveals the continuing complexity and diversity of a richly textured and nuanced intellectual tradition. All who are "lovers of wisdom" will find much to reward them in this book.
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With a clear, witty style and a flair for making complex ideas accessible, the authors also convincingly demonstrate the relevance of philosophy to our times, emphasizing the legacy of the revolutions wrought by science, industry, colonialism, and sectarian warfare, and the philosophical responses to the traumas of the twentieth century (including two world wars and the Holocaust): existentialism, positivism, postmodernism, feminism, and multiculturalism among them. But Solomon and Higgins go beyond merely retelling the rich history of philosophy; the authors provide their own twists and interpretations of events, resulting in a story that reveals the continuing complexity and diversity of a richly textured and nuanced intellectual tradition. All who are "lovers of wisdom" will find much to reward them in this book.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-324) and index.
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Higgins, Kathleen Marie.
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I. The search for world order : ancient philosophy
The "Axial period" and the origins of philosophy
The "miracle" of Greece
Philosophy, myth, religion, and science
Meaning and creation : cosmogony and the origins of philosophy
Vedas and Vedanta : early philosophy in India
The first (Greek) philosopher
The pre-Socratic philosophers (I) : the stuff of the world
The pre-Socratic philosophers (II) : the underlying order
The pre-Socratic philosophers (III) : the pluralists
Enter the Sophists
Socrates
Plato : metaphysician or sublime humorist?
The philosopher's philosopher : Aristotle
A footnote to Plate (and Aristotle)
Tough times : stoicism, skepticism, and Epicureanism
Mysticism and logic in ancient India : Nagarjuna and Nyaya
II. God and the philosophers : religious and medieval philosophy
Religion and spirituality : three philosophical themes
The wisdom of the East (I) : Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism
The wisdom of the East (II) : Confucius and Confucianism
The wisdom of the East (III) : Lao-tzu, Chuang-tzu, and Taoism
Deep in the heart of Persia : Zoroastrianism
From Athens to Jerusalem : Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
The Hebrew people and the origins of Judaism
Greek Jew : Philo of Alexandria
The birth of Christianity
The opening of Christianity : St. Paul
Neoplatonism and Christianity
St. Augustine and the inner life of spirit
The first great split within Christianity
The rise of Islam
Mysticism
Persia and the peripatetic tradition
Diaspora, dialectic, and mysticism in Judaism
Thinking God : Anselm, Abelard, Aquinas, and scholasticism
Late scholasticism : Duns Scotus and William of Ockham
In search of essences : the alchemists
Philosophical syntheses outside the West
The reformation : Luther and his progeny
The counter-reformation, Erasmus, and more
After Aristotle : Bacon, Hobbes, Machiavelli, and the Renaissance
Before the "discovery" : Africa and the Americas.

III. Between science and religion : modern philosophy and the enlightenment
Science, religion, and the meaning of modernism
Montaigne : the first modern philosopher?
Descartes and the new science
Spinoza, Leibniz, Pascal, and Newton
The enlightenment, colonialism, and the eclipse of the Orient
Locke, Hume, and empiricism
Adam Smith, the moral sentiments, and the Protestant ethic
Voltaire, Rousseau, and revolution
Immanuel Kant : saving science
Kant's moral philosophy and the third Critique
The discovery of history : Hegel
Philosophy and poetry : rationalism and romanticism
Romantic West meets East : Schopenhauer
After Hegel : Kierkegaard, Feuerbach, and Marx
Mill, Darwin, and Nietzsche : consumerism, energy, and evolution
Early philosophy in America
IV. From modernism to postmodernism : the twentieth century
The rejection of idealism : a century of horrors
Frege, Russell, and Husserl : arithmetic, atomism, phenomenology
Zarathustra in the trenches : the limits of rationality
The American experience in philosophy : pragmatism
Changing reality : philosophies of process
Unamuno, Croce, and Heidegger : the tragic sense of life
Hitler, the Holocaust, positivism, and existentialism
No exit : the existentialism of Camus, Sartre, and Beauvoir
From ideal to ordinary language : from Cambridge to Oxford
Women and gender : the feminization of philosophy
The return of the oppressed : Africa, Asia, and the Americas
From postmodernism to the new age
World philosophy : promise or pretense.

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