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An Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy , 20th Anniversary Edition, Third Edition

An Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy , 20th Anniversary Edition, Third Edition

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Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Year 12/10/2018
Pages 464
Version paperback
Readership level Professional and scholarly
Language English
ISBN 9781119452799
Categories History of Western philosophy
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In 1998, the first edition of Anthony Kenny's comprehensive history of Western philosophy was published, to be met with immediate praise and critical acclaim. As the first book since Bertrand Russell's 1945 A History of Western Philosophy to offer a concise single-author review of the complete history of philosophy from the pre-Socratics to the modern masters of the 20th century, Kenny's work fills a critical gap in the modern philosophy reading list and offers valuable guidance for the general reader of philosophy-an ideal starting point for anyone with an interest in great thinkers and the family lines of philosophical evolution.


Widely considered to be one of the most thorough and accessible historical reviews in philosophy, An Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy has earned an estimable and distinctive reputation, both for the compelling writing style of Anthony Kenny, one of the most respected and accomplished living philosophers, and for the rich collection of paintings, illustrations, maps, and photos included with every chapter to complement this review of 2,500 years of philosophical thought.


Newly revised and expanded for a special 20th anniversary publication, the latest edition of An Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy contains all of Kenny's original writings on the history of Western philosophy from ancient to modern, along with new writings on the philosophy of the mid-20th century, covering important contributions from continental philosophers and philosophers of the post-Wittgenstein anglophone tradition, including the work of many women who have too often been neglected by the historical record.

An Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy , 20th Anniversary Edition, Third Edition

Table of contents

Preface xi





List of Illustrations xv





Acknowledgements xvii





Introduction xix





I PHILOSOPHY IN ITS INFANCY 1





The Milesians 3





Xenophanes 5





Heraclitus 6





The School of Parmenides 8





Empedocles 14





The Atomists 17





II THE ATHENS OF SOCRATES 20





The Athenian Empire 20





Anaxagoras 22





The Sophists 22





Socrates 24





The Euthyphro 26





The Crito 29





The Phaedo 30





III THE PHILOSOPHY OF PLATO 36





Life and Works 36





The Theory of Ideas 38





Plato's Republic 41





The Theaetetus and the Sophist 50





IV THE SYSTEM OF ARISTOTLE 57





Plato's Pupil, Alexander's Teacher 57





The Foundation of Logic 59





The Theory of Drama 63





Moral Philosophy: Virtue and Happiness 64





Moral Philosophy: Wisdom and Understanding 68





Politics 71





Science and Explanation 72





Words and Things 74





Motion and Change 76





Soul, Sense, and Intellect 78





Metaphysics 81





V GREEK PHILOSOPHY AFTER ARISTOTLE 85





The Hellenistic Era 85





Epicureanism 87





Stoicism 89





Scepticism 91





Rome and its Empire 93





Jesus of Nazareth 94





Christianity and Gnosticism 96





Neo-Platonism 99





VI EARLY CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY 102





Arianism and Orthodoxy 102





The Theology of Incarnation 105





The Life of Augustine 107





The City of God and the Mystery of Grace 110





Boethius and Philoponus 113





VII EARLY MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY 118





John the Scot 118





Alkindi and Avicenna 121





The Feudal System 123





Saint Anselm 124





Abelard and Heloise 126





Abelard's Logic 128





Abelard's Ethics 130





Averroes 131





Maimonides 133





VIII PHILOSOPHY IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY 135





An Age of Innovation 135





Saint Bonaventure 138





Thirteenth-Century Logic 140





Aquinas' Life and Works 141





Aquinas' Natural Theology 143





Matter, Form, Substance, and Accident 145





Aquinas on Essence and Existence 147





Aquinas' Philosophy of Mind 148





Aquinas' Moral Philosophy 149





IX OXFORD PHILOSOPHERS 154





The Fourteenth-Century University 154





Duns Scotus 155





Ockham's Logic of Language 162





Ockham's Political Theory 164





The Oxford Calculators 167





John Wyclif 168





X RENAISSANCE PHILOSOPHY 171





The Renaissance 171





Free-will: Rome vs. Louvain 172





Renaissance Platonism 175





Machiavelli 176





More's Utopia 179





The Reformation 181





Post-Reformation Philosophy 185





Bruno and Galileo 187





Francis Bacon 189





XI THE AGE OF DESCARTES 194





The Wars of Religion 194





The Life of Descartes 195





The Doubt and the Cogito 198





The Essence of Mind 200





God, Mind, and Body 201





The Material World 20





XII ENGLISH PHILOSOPHY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 209





The Empiricism of Thomas Hobbes 209





Hobbes' Political Philosophy 211





The Political Theory of John Locke 214





Locke on Ideas and Qualities 216





Substances and Persons 219





XIII CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE AGE OF LOUIS XIV 224





Blaise Pascal 224





Spinoza and Malebranche 227





Leibniz 232





XIV BRITISH PHILOSOPHY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 237





Berkeley 237





Hume's Philosophy of Mind 242





Hume on Causation 246





Reid and Common Sense 248





XV THE ENLIGHTENMENT 251





The Philosophes 251





Rousseau 252





Revolution and Romanticism 256





XVI THE CRITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF KANT 259





Kant's Copernican Revolution 259





The Transcendental Aesthetic 261





The Transcendental Analytic: The Deduction of the Categories 263





The Transcendental Analytic: The System of Principles 266





The Transcendental Dialectic: The Paralogisms of Pure Reason 269





The Transcendental Dialectic: The Antinomies of Pure Reason 271





The Transcendental Dialectic: The Critique of Natural Theology 274





Kant's Moral Philosophy 276





XVII GERMAN IDEALISM AND MATERIALISM 280





Fichte 280





Hegel 281





Marx and the Young Hegelians 285





Capitalism and its Discontents 287





XVIII THE UTILITARIANS 290





Jeremy Bentham 290





The Utilitarianism of J. S. Mill 295





Mill's Logic 297





XIX THREE NINETEENTH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHERS 301





Schopenhauer 301





Kierkegaard 307





Nietzsche 310





XX THREE MODERN MASTERS 313





Charles Darwin 313





John Henry Newman 318





Sigmund Freud 322





XXI LOGIC AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF MATHEMATICS 329





Frege's Logic 329





Frege's Logicism 331





Frege's Philosophy of Logic 334





Russell's Paradox 335





Russell's Theory of Descriptions 337





Logical Analysis 340





XXII CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY 342





Henri Bergson 342





Husserl's Phenomenology 347





The Existentialism of Heidegger 349





The Existentialism of Sartre and de Beauvoir 351





XXIII THE PHILOSOPHY OF WITTGENSTEIN 356





Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 356





Logical Positivism 359





Philosophical Investigations 361





XXIV RECENT CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY 372





The Frankfurt School 372





Jacques Derrida 379





Jurgen Habermas 382





XXV RECENT ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY 388





Elizabeth Anscombe 389





W. V. O. Quine 390





Donald Davidson 393





Peter Geach 394





Peter Strawson 396





American Metaphysics 397





The Cartesian Revival 399





Analytical Ethics 401





John Rawls 405





Richard Rorty 406





Afterword 409





Suggestions for Further Reading 412





Index 421

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