ABSTRACT
This text/anthology is designed to lead beginning students to an appreciation of Western philosophy through an exploration of its history, the problems (classical questions) it has dealt with, and the major philosophers and their works within that historical setting.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |6 pages
Introduction
part One|142 pages
The Ancient Period
chapter 1|19 pages
The Predecessors of Socrates
chapter 2|24 pages
Socrates (469–399 b.c.)
chapter 3|33 pages
Plato (427–347 b.c.)
chapter 4|35 pages
Aristotle (384–322 b.c.)
chapter 5|11 pages
Epicurus (341–270 b.c.)
chapter 6|16 pages
The Stoics: Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius (a.d. 50–138) (a.d. 121–180)
part Two|86 pages
The Medieval Period
chapter 7|28 pages
St. Augustine (354–430)
chapter 8|8 pages
St. Anselm (1033–1109)
chapter 9|32 pages
St. Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274)
chapter 10|14 pages
William of Ockham (c. 1280–1349)
part Three|214 pages
The Modern Period
chapter 11|29 pages
René Descartes (1596–1650)
chapter 12|13 pages
Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677)
chapter 13|15 pages
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716)
chapter 14|20 pages
Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)
chapter 15|35 pages
John Locke (1632–1704)
chapter 16|12 pages
George Berkeley (1685–1753)
chapter 17|26 pages
David Hume (1711–1776)
chapter 18|24 pages
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)
chapter 19|13 pages
Georg? Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
chapter 20|21 pages
John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)
part Four|203 pages
The Contemporary Period
