A new history of Western philosophy : in four parts / Anthony Kenny.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kenny, Anthony, 1931-

Series:

New History of Western Philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy--History.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1077 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford [England] ; New York : Clarendon Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is no less than a guide to the whole of Western philosophy -- the ideas that have undergirded our civilization for two-and-a-half thousand years. Anthony Kenny tells the story of philosophy from ancient Greece through the Middle Ages and the Enlightenment into the modern world. He introduces us to the great thinkers and their ideas, starting with Plato, Aristotle, and the other founders of Western thought. In the second part of the book he takes us through a thousand yearsof medieval philosophy, and shows us the rich intellectual legacy of Christian thinkers like Augustine, Aquinas,

Contents:

Part 1 - Beginnings: from Pythagoras to Plato

Schools of thought: from Aristotle to Augustine

How to argue: logic

Knowledge and its limits: epistemology

How things happen: physics

What there is: metaphysics

Soul and mind

How to live: ethics

God.

Part 2 - Philosophy and faith: Augustine to Maimonides

The schoolmen: from the twelfth century to the Renaissance

Logic and language

Knowledge

Physics

Metaphysics

Mind and soul

Ethics

Part 3 - Sixteenth-century philosophy

Descartes to Berkeley

Hume to Hegel

Political philosophy

Part 4 - Bentham to Nietzsche

Pierce to Strawson

Freud to Derrida

Logic

Language

Epistemology

Philosophy of mind

Aesthetics

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-164291-6

1-283-92383-1

0-19-164290-8

OCLC:

823719827