The story of philosophy
By: Bryan Magee
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: DK Pub.
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780789435118
Subjects: Philosophy; History
Description: "The essential guide to the history of western philosophy."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-233) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.  An invitation to philosophy; title: The Greeks and their world.  Before Socrates ; Socrates ; Plato ; Aristotle ; The Cynics ; The Sceptics ; The Epicureans ; The Stoics; title: Christianity and philosophy.  Saint Augustine ; Medieval philosophy; title: The beginnings of modern science.  Copernicus ; Newton ; Machiavelli ; Francis Bacon ; Hobbes; title: The great rationalists.  Descartes ; Spinoza ; Leibniz; title: The great empiricists.  Locke ; Berkeley ; Hume ; Burke; title: Revolutionary French thinkers.  Voltaire ; Diderot ; Rousseau; title: A golden century of German philosophy.  Kant ; Schopenhauer ; Some comparisons of East and West ; Ficht ; Schelling ; Hegel ; Marx ; Nietzsche; title: Democracy and philosophy.  The Utilitarians ; The American Pragmatists; title: 20th century philosophy.  Frege and modern logic ; Russell and analytic philosophy ; Wittgenstein and linguistic philosophy ; Existentialism ; Bergson and recent French philosophy ; Popper ; The future of philosophy.