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A concise history of Western philosophy : from Platonism to nihilism / Mark Anderson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Anderson, Mark, 1966- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy--Western countries--History.
- Philosophy.
- Western countries.
- Genre:
- History
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 146 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- London, United Kingdom ; New York, New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- A concise history of western philosophy from Plato to Nietzsche narrating its gradual decline into nihilism.
- Contents:
- Preface: Being versus becoming
- One and many
- Parmenides
- Gorgias
- One and many - Plato: Ontology
- Plato: Epistemology
- Plato: Objectivism and Relativism
- Aristotle: Ontology
- Artistotle: Ethics
- Plotinus
- Sextus Empiricus
- Augustine
- Thomas Aquinas
- William of Ockham
- Descartes
- Hume
- Kant
- Nietzsche: Platonism inverted
- Nietzsche: Metaphysical Nihilism
- Nietzsche: Psychological Nihilism
- Being and becoming
- Suggestions for further reading.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Anderson, Mark, 1966- Concise history of Western philosophy.
- ISBN:
- 9781350555976
- 1350555975
- 9781350556003
- 1350556009
- 9781350556010
- 1350556017
- OCLC:
- 1528957850
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000297930
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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