Modern European philosophers / Wayne P. Pomerleau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pomerleau, Wayne P., 1946- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Modern--History.

Philosophy, Modern.

Philosophy, European--History.

Philosophy, European.

Philosophers--Europe.

Philosophers.

Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2023.

Summary:

"This book is a history of modern European philosophy, focusing on the great philosophers of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, from Descartes through Nietzsche, all of whom develop comprehensive systems of thought. Such a history can be seen as telling a story (indeed, the very word "story" comes from the Latin word historia). It has been traditionally understood since ancient times that a good story has a beginning, an end, and a middle that reasonably moves us from the beginning to its end. Although it may seem a bit artificial, we can think of the history of modern European philosophy as beginning in the 1620s, when Descartes was writing his Rules for the Direction of the Mind, and ending in 1900, with the death of Nietzsche. In some ways, the development from the former to the latter is a process of intellectual radicalization. Yet a focus that persists through this process is an emphasis on the individual thinker as the subject of experience, belief, knowledge, and action"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Background

1.1. Overview

1.2. Ancient Philosophy

1.2.1. "Ancient"

1.2.2. "Philosophy"

1.2.3. The Pre-Socratics

1.2.4. Socrates and Plato

1.2.5. Aristotle

1.2.6. Post-Aristotelians

1.2.6.1. Epicurus

1.2.6.2. Epictetus

1.2.6.3. Sextus Empiricus

1.2.6.4. Cicero

1.2.6.5. Plotinus

1.3. Medieval Philosophy

1.3.1. "Medieval"

1.3.2. Augustine

1.3.3. Boethius

1.3.4. Anselm

1.3.5. Aquinas

1.4. Renaissance Thinkers

1.4.1. "Renaissance"

1.4.2. Machiavelli

1.4.3. Montaigne

1.4.4. Bacon

1.4.5. Galileo

1.5. Review

2. Rene Descartes

2.1. Overview

2.2. Biography

2.3. Knowledge

2.4. Reality

2.5. God

2.6. Humanity

2.7. Freedom

2.8. Morality

2.9. Society

2.10. Review

2.11. Another Perspective

3. Thomas Hobbes

3.1. Overview

3.2. Biography

3.3. Knowledge

3.4. Reality

3.5. God

3.6. Humanity

3.7. Freedom

3.8. Morality

3.9. Society

3.10. Review

3.11. Another Perspective

4. Blaise Pascal

4.1. Overview

4.2. Biography

4.3. Knowledge

4.4. Reality

4.5. God

4.6. Humanity

4.7. Freedom

4.8. Morality

4.9. Society

4.10. Review

5. Baruch Spinoza

5.1. Overview

5.2. Biography

5.3. Knowledge

5.4. Reality

5.5. God

5.6. Humanity

5.7. Freedom

5.8. Morality

5.9. Society

5.10. Review

5.11. Another Perspective

6. Nicolas Malebranche

6.1. Overview

6.2. Biography

6.3. Knowledge

6.4. Reality

6.5. God

6.6. Humanity

6.7. Freedom

6.8. Morality

6.9. Society

6.10. Review

7. John Locke

7.1. Overview

7.2. Biography

7.3. Knowledge

7.4. Reality

7.5. God

7.6. Humanity

7.7. Freedom

7.8. Morality

7.9. Society

7.10. Review

7.11. Another Perspective

8. G.W. Leibniz

8.1. Overview

8.2. Biography

8.3. Knowledge

8.4. Reality

8.5. God

8.6. Humanity

8.7. Freedom

8.8. Morality

8.9. Society

8.10. Review

8.11. Another Perspective

9. George Berkeley

9.1. Overview

9.2. Biography

9.3. Knowledge

9.4. Reality

9.5. God

9.6. Humanity

9.7. Freedom

9.8. Morality

9.9. Society

9.10. Review

10. Joseph Butler

10.1. Overview

10.2. Biography

10.3. Knowledge

10.4. Reality

10.5. God

10.6. Humanity

10.7. Freedom

10.8. Morality

10.9. Society

10.10. Review

11. David Hume

11.1. Overview

11.2. Biography

11.3. Knowledge

11.4. Reality

11.5. God

11.6. Humanity

11.7. Freedom

11.8. Morality

11.9. Society

11.10. Review

11.11. Another Perspective

12. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

12.1. Overview

12.2. Biography

12.3. Knowledge

12.4. Reality

12.5. God

12.6. Humanity

12.7. Freedom

12.8. Morality

12.9. Society

12.10. Review

12.11. Another Perspective

13. Immanuel Kant

13.1. Overview

13.2. Biography

13.3. Knowledge

13.4. Reality

13.5. God

13.6. Humanity

13.7. Freedom

13.8. Morality

13.9. Society

13.10. Review

13.11. Another Perspective

14. Jeremy Bentham

14.1. Overview

14.2. Biography

14.3. Knowledge

14.4. Reality

14.5. God

14.6. Humanity

14.7. Freedom

14.8. Morality

14.9. Society

14.10. Review

15. Johann Gottlieb Rente

15.1. Overview

15.2. Biography

15.3. Knowledge

15.4. Reality

15.5. God

15.6. Humanity

15.7. Freedom

15.8. Morality

15.9. Society

15.10. Review

16. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

16.1. Overview

16.2. Biography

16.3. Knowledge

16.4. Reality

16.5. God

16.6. Humanity

16.7. Freedom

16.8. Morality

16.9. Society

16.10. Review

17. Arthur Schopenhauer

17.1. Overview

17.2. Biography

17.3. Knowledge

17.4. Reality

17.5. God

17.6. Humanity

17.7. Freedom

17.8. Morality

17.9. Society

17.10. Review

18. Ludwig Feuerbach

18.1. Overview

18.2. Biography

18.3. Knowledge

18.4. Reality

18.5. God

18.6. Humanity

18.7. Freedom

18.8. Morality

18.9. Society

18.10. Review

19. Karl Marx

19.1. Overview

19.2. Biography

19.3. Knowledge

19.4. Reality

19.5. God

19.6. Humanity

19.7. Freedom

19.8. Morality

19.9. Society

19.10. Review

20. John Stuart Mill

20.1. Overview

20.2. Biography

20.3. Knowledge

20.4. Reality

20.5. God

20.6. Humanity

20.7. Freedom

20.8. Morality

20.9. Society

20.10. Review

20.11. Another Perspective

21. Soren Kierkegaard

21.1. Overview

21.2. Biography

21.3. Knowledge

21.4. Reality

21.5. God

21.6. Humanity

21.7. Freedom

21.8. Morality

21.9. Society

21.10. Review

22. Friedrich Nietzsche

22.1. Overview

22.2. Biography

22.3. Knowledge

22.4. Reality

22.5. God

22.6. Humanity

22.7. Freedom

22.8. Morality

22.9. Society

22.10. Review.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Pomerleau, Wayne P., 1946- Modern european philosophers

ISBN:

9781119902355

1119902355

OCLC:

1340656701