This illustrated edition of Sir Anthony Kenny’s acclaimed survey of Western philosophy offers the most concise and compelling story of the complete development of philosophy available.
Spanning 2, 500 years of thought, An Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy provides essential coverage of the most influential philosophers of the Western world, among them Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Jesus, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Berkeley, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Mill, Nietzsche, Darwin, Freud, Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein.
Replete with over 60 illustrations – ranging from Dufresnoy’s The Death of Socrates, through to the title page of Thomas More’s Utopia, portraits of Hobbes and Rousseau, photographs of Charles Darwin and Bertrand Russell, Freud’s own sketch of the Ego and the Id, and Wittgenstein’s Austrian military identity card – this lucid and masterful work is ideal for anyone with an interest in Western thought.
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Preface x
List of Illustrations xiii
Acknowledgements xvi
I Philosophy in its Infancy 1
The Milesians 2
Xenophanes 5
Heraclitus 6
The School of Parmenides 9
Empedocles 14
The Atomists 17
II The Athens of Socrates 21
The Athenian Empire 21
Anaxagoras 23
The Sophists 24
Socrates 25
The Euthyphro 28
The Crito 31
The Phaedo 31
III The Philosophy of Plato 38
Life and Works 38
The Theory of Ideas 40
Plato’s Republic 44
The Theaetetus and the Sophist 54
IV The System of Aristotle 61
Plato’s Pupil, Alexander’s Teacher 61
The Foundation of Logic 63
The Theory of Drama 67
Moral Philosophy: Virtue and Happiness 68
Moral Philosophy: Wisdom and Understanding 72
Politics 75
Science and Explanation 77
Words and Things 80
Motion and Change 81
Soul, Sense, and Intellect 83
Metaphysics 86
V Greek Philosophy after Aristotle 91
The Hellenistic Era 91
Epicureanism 93
Stoicism 95
Scepticism 97
Rome and its Empire 99
Jesus of Nazareth 100
Christianity and Gnosticism 102
Neo-Platonism 106
VI Early Christian Philosophy 109
Arianism and Orthodoxy 109
The Theology of Incarnation 112
The Life of Augustine 114
The City of God and the Mystery of Grace 117
Boethius and Philoponus 120
VII Early Medieval Philosophy 125
John the Scot 125
Alkindi and Avicenna 128
The Feudal System 130
Saint Anselm 131
Abelard and Héloïse 133
Abelard’s Logic 135
Abelard’s Ethics 137
Averroes 139
Maimonides 140
VIII Philosophy in the Thirteenth Century 144
An Age of Innovation 144
Saint Bonaventure 147
Thirteenth-Century Logic 149
Aquinas’ Life and Works 150
Aquinas’ Natural Theology 152
Matter, Form, Substance, and Accident 154
Aquinas on Essence and Existence 156
Aquinas’ Philosophy of Mind 157
Aquinas’ Moral Philosophy 159
IX Oxford Philosophers 164
The Fourteenth-Century University 164
Duns Scotus 165
Ockham’s Logic of Language 172
Ockham’s Political Theory 174
The Oxford Calculators 177
John Wyclif 178
X Renaissance Philosophy 182
The Renaissance 182
Free-will: Rome vs. Louvain 183
Renaissance Platonism 186
Machiavelli 188
More’s Utopia 190
The Reformation 193
Post-Reformation Philosophy 197
Bruno and Galileo 199
Francis Bacon 201
XI The Age of Descartes 206
The Wars of Religion 206
The Life of Descartes 207
The Doubt and the Cogito 210
The Essence of Mind 212
God, Mind, and Body 214
The Material World 217
XII English Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century 221
The Empiricism of Thomas Hobbes 221
Hobbes’ Political Philosophy 223
The Political Theory of John Locke 226
Locke on Ideas and Qualities 228
Substances and Persons 232
XIII Continental Philosophy in the Age of Louis XIV 237
Blaise Pascal 237
Spinoza and Malebranche 240
Leibniz 245
XIV British Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century 251
Berkeley 251
Hume’s Philosophy of Mind 256
Hume on Causation 260
Reid and Common Sense 263
XV The Enlightenment 266
The Philosophes 266
Rousseau 267
Revolution and Romanticism 271
XVI The Critical Philosophy of Kant 275
Kant’s Copernican Revolution 275
The Transcendental Aesthetic 278
The Transcendental Analytic: The Deduction of the
Categories 280
The Transcendental Analytic: The System of Principles 283
The Transcendental Dialectic: The Paralogisms of Pure Reason 286
The Transcendental Dialectic: The Antinomies of Pure Reason 289
The Transcendental Dialectic: The Critique of Natural Theology 291
Kant’s Moral Philosophy 295
XVII German Idealism and Materialism 298
Fichte 298
Hegel 299
Marx and the Young Hegelians 304
Capitalism and its Discontents 306
XVIII The Utilitarians 309
Jeremy Bentham 309
The Utilitarianism of J. S. Mill 314
Mill’s Logic 316
XIX Three Nineteenth-Century Philosophers 320
Schopenhauer 320
Kierkegaard 327
Nietzsche 329
XX Three Modern Masters 333
Charles Darwin 333
John Henry Newman 339
Sigmund Freud 343
XXI Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics 351
Frege’s Logic 351
Frege’s Logicism 353
Frege’s Philosophy of Logic 356
Russell’s Paradox 357
Russell’s Theory of Descriptions 359
Logical Analysis 362
XXII The Philosophy of Wittgenstein 365
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 365
Logical Positivism 368
Philosophical Investigations 370
Afterword 382
Suggestions for Further Reading 386
Index 392
Sobre el autor
Sir Anthony Kenny was formerly Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Oxford University, Master of Balliol College, Oxford and Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford. He was also President of the British Academy, Chairman of the Board of the British Library and a Trustee of Wittgenstein’s copyrights. He is the author or editor of more than 40 books, including
Wittgenstein (Revised Edition, 2006),
Frege: An Introduction to the Founder of Modern Analytic Philosophy (2000) and
The Legacy of Wittgenstein (1984), all published by Blackwell.
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