Last edition Elsevier Now updated and with a fresh new look, the highly Science successful The Story of Philosophy traces more than 2,500 years of Western philosophy, from Plato and Aristotle in ancient Greece to Saint Augustine and medieval philosophy, the golden century of German philosophy, Bertrand Russell and Albert Camus of the modern era, and much more. World-renowned philosopher and professor Bryan Magee expertly guides your exploration through the major philosophical issues, the important questions, and the key contributions of the great philosophers in this illustrated, accessible guide.
Last Edition
ISBN 13: 9781465445643
Imprint: Dorling Kindersley
Language: English
Authors: Bryan Magee
Pub Date: 05/2016
Pages: 240
Illus: Illustrated
Weight: 680.00 grams
Size: h 196 x 231 mm
Product Type: Softcover
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- • Discover the great thinkers in their historical contexts and learn the influences that shaped their lives and work. In The Story of Philosophy, Revised and Updated, each philosophical movement includes profiles of key philosophers and their important works, historical contexts and influences, important quotes, and other related people and ideas. Full-color photographs, artworks, and illustrations illuminate every page.
- • The Story of Philosophy, Revised and Updated gives you the information you need to think about life's greatest questions, opening up the world of philosophical ideas in a way that can be easily understood by students and by anyone fascinated by the ways we form our social, political, and ethical ideas.
- Bryan Magee has been one of the most successful English-language popularizers of philosophy in the 20th century. He has taught philosophy at Oxford University and written numerous other books on the subject, including The Great Philosophers: An Introduction to Western Philosophy, Talking Philosophy: Dialogues with Fifteen Leading Philosophers, and Confessions of a Philosopher: A Personal Journey Through Western Philosophy from Plato to Popper.
- Introduction
- An Invitation to Philosophy 6
- The Greeks and their World
- Before Socrates 12 Socrates 20 Plato 21 Aristotle 32 Ihc Cynics 40 The Sceptics 42 Tlic Epicureans 44 The Stoics 46
- Socrates (c.470-399 вс)
- Christianity and Philosophy
- Saint Augustine (an 354-430l)
- Saint Augustine Ml Medieval Philosophy 54
- The Beginnings of Modern Science
- Copernicus to Newton 64 Machiavelli 72 Francis Bacon 74 Hobbes 78
- The Great Rationalists
- Descartes 84 Spinoza 90 Leibniz 96
- Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
- The Great Empiricists
- Locke 102 Berkeley II3 Hume 112 Burke 118
- John Locke (1632-1704)
- Revolutionary French Thinkers
- Voltaire 122 Diderot 124 Rousseau 126
- A Golden Century of German Philosophy
- Kant 132 Schopenhauer 138 Some Comparsons of Fichte 154 Schelling 156 Hegel 158 Marx 164 Nietzsche 172
- Democracy and Philosophy
- The utilitarians 182 The American Pragmatists 186
- 20th-Century Philosofy
- Frege and Modem Logic 194 Russel and Analytic Philosophy 196 Wiitgensiem and Linguistic Philosophy 202 Existentialist 208 Bergson and Recent French Philosophy 214 Popper 220 The Future of Philosophy 226
- Glossary 228
- Guide to Further Reading 232 lndex-233 Acknowledgments 239
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