Brooke Noel Moore, Kenneth Bruder

Philosophy: The Power of Ideas [With Powerweb Access]

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

One of the most widely adopted texts in the field, "Philosophy: The Power of Ideas" offers a topical introduction to philosophy within an overarching historical framework. The goal of the authors is to make philosophy understandable, while not oversimplifying the material, showing that philosophy contains powerful ideas that affect the lives of real people.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McGraw Hill LLC
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Erscheinungstermin: Mai 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 189mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 1057g
• ISBN-13: 9780072840629
• ISBN-10: 0072840625
• Artikelnr.: 21514669

Inhaltsangabe

1. Powerful Ideas
What is Philosophy?
Misconceptions about Philosophy
The Tools of Philosophy: Argument and Logic
The Divisions of Philosophy
The Benefits of Philosophy
PART I. METAPHYSICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY: EXISTENCE AND KNOWLEDGE 2. The Pre-Socratics The Milesians
Pythagoras
Heraclitus and Parmenides
Empedocles and Anaxagoras
The Atomists
3. Socrates, Plato Socrates
Plato
Selection 3.1: Plato, Republic
Selection 3.2: Plato, Meno
4. Aristotle What Is It to Be?
Aristotle and the Theory of Forms
Pure Actuality
Essence and Existence
Ten Basic Categories
The Three Souls
Aristotle's Theory of Knowledge
Logic
Selection 4.1: Aristotle, Metaphysics 5. Philosophers of the Hellenistic and Christian Eras Metaphysics in the Roman Empire
The Middle Ages and Aquinas
Selection 5.1: St. Augustine, Confessions
6. The Rise of Modern Metaphysics and Epistemology Descartes and Dualism
Hobbes and Materialism
The Alternative Views of Conway, Spinoza, and Leibniz
The Idealism of Locke and Berkeley
Selection 6.1: Renescartes, Meditations on First Philosophy
Selection 6.2 George Berkeley, Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
7. The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries David Hume
Immanuel Kant
The Nineteenth Century
Selection 7.1: David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Selection 7.2: Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
Selection 7.3: Georg Hegel, The Philosophy of History
Selection 7.4: Arthur Schopenhauer, The World As Will and Representation
8. The Continental Tradition Existentialism
Two Existentialists
Phenomenology
Selection 8.1: Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism and Humanism
Selection 8.2: Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
9. The Pragmatic and Analytic Traditions Pragmatism
Analytic Philosophy
The Philosophy of the Mind
Selection 9.1: A. J. Ayer, The Elimination of Metaphysics
Selection 9.2: J. J. C. Smart, Sensations and Brain Processes
Selection 9.3: Richard Rorty, Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth
PART II. MORAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 10. Moral Philosophy Skepticism, Relativism, and Subjectivism
Egoism
Hedonism
The Five Main Ethical Frameworks
The Early Greeks
Epicureanism and Stoicism
Christianizing Ethics
Hobbes and Hume
Kant
The Utilitarians
Friedrich Nietzsche
Selection 10.1: Plato, Gorgias
Selection 10.2: Epicurus, Epicurus to Menoeceus
Selection 10.3: Epictetus, The Encheiridion
Selection 10.4: Immanuel Kant, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals
Selection 10.5: John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism
Selection 10.6: Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
11. Political Philosophy Plato and Aristotle
Natural Law Theory and Contractarian Theory
Two Other Contractarian Theorists
American Constitutional Theory
Classic Liberalism and Marxism
Selection 11.1: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
Selection 11.2: John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Selection 11.3: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Communist Manifesto
12. Recent Moral and Political Philosophy G. E. Moore
Normative Ethics and Metaethics
W. D. Ross
Emotivism and Beyond
John Rawls, A Contemporary Liberal
Robert Nozick's Libertarianism
Communitarian Responses to Rawls
Herbert Marcuse, A Contemporary Marxist
'Isms'
Selection 12.1: James Rachels, Killing and Starving to Death
Selection 12.2: John Rawls, A Theory of Justice
Selection 12.3: Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia
PART III. PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION: REASON AND FAITH 13. Philosophy and Belief in God Two Christian Greats
Mysticism
Seventeenth-Century Perspectives
Eighteenth-Century Perspectives
Nineteenth-Century Perspectives
Twentieth-Century Perspectives
Selection 13.1: St. Anselm, Proslogion
Selection 13.2: St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
Selection 13.3: Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
Selection 13.4: Antony Flew, Theology and Falsification
Selection 13.5: Mary Daly, After the Death of God the Father
PART IV. OTHER VOICES 14. Feminist Philosphy The First Wave
The Second Wave
Selection 14.1: Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women
Selection 14.2: Simone de Beavoir, The Second Sex
Selection 14.3: Marielouise Janssen-Jurreit, Sexism: The Male Monopoly on History and Thought
Selection 14.4: Sandra Harding, Should the History and Philosophy of Science Be X-Rated?
Selection 14.5: Susan Moller Okin, Justice, Gender, and the Family
Selection 14.6: Karen J. Warren, The Power and the Promise of Ecological Feminism
15. An Era of Suspicion Jrgen Habermas
Michel Foucault
Structuralism versus Deconstruction
Richard Rorty
Selection 15.1: Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality
Selection 15.2: Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization
Selection 15.3: Jrgen Habermas, Toward a Rational Society
Selection 15.4: Richard Rorty, Philosophy and Social Hope
16. Eastern Influences Hinduism
Buddhism
Taoism
Conficianism
Zen Buddhism in China and Japan
The Philosophy of the Samurai (c. 1100-1900)
Selection 16.1: Confucius, Analects
Selection 16.2: Buddha, The Eightfold Path
17. Post-Colonial Thought Historical Background
Africa
The Americas
South Asia
Selection 17.1: Lold Sr Senghor, On African Socialism
Selection 17.2: Martin Luther King, Jr., The Sword that Heals
Selection 17.3: Carlos Astrada, Existentialism and the Crisis of Philosophy
Selection 17.4: Francisco Mir Quesada, Man without Theory
Selection 17.5: Sonia Saldivar-Hull, Feminism on the Border: From Gender Politics to Geopolitics
Selection 17.6: Mohandas K. Gandhi, Satyagraha
Selection 1A. J. Ayer, The Elimination of Metaphysics
Selection 9.2: J. J. C. Smart, Sensations and Brain Processes
Selection 9.3: Richard Rorty, Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth
PART II. MORAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 10. Moral Philosophy Skepticism, Relativism, and Subjectivism
Egoism
Hedonism
The Five Main Ethical Frameworks
The Early Greeks
Epicureanism and Stoicism
Christianizing Ethics
Hobbes and Hume
Kant
The Utilitarians
Friedrich Nietzsche
Selection 10.1: Plato, Gorgias
Selection 10.2: Epicurus, Epicurus to Menoeceus
Selection 10.3: Epictetus, The Encheiridion
Selection 10.4: Immanuel Kant, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals
Selection 10.5: John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism
Selection 10.6: Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
11. Political Philosophy Plato and Aristotle
Natural Law Theory and Contractarian Theory
Two Other Contractarian Theorists
American Constitutional Theory
Classic Liberalism and Marxism
Selection 11.1: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
Selection 11.2: John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Selection 11.3: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Communist Manifesto
12. Recent Moral and Political Philosophy G. E. Moore
Normative Ethics and Metaethics
W. D. Ross
Emotivism and Beyond
John Rawls, A Contemporary Liberal
Robert Nozick's Libertarianism
Communitarian Responses to Rawls
Herbert Marcuse, A Contemporary Marxist
'Isms'
Selection 12.1: James Rachels, Killing and Starving to Death
Selection 12.2: John Rawls, A Theory of Justice
Selection 12.3: Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia
PART III. PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION: REASON AND FAITH 13. Philosophy and Belief in God Two Christian Greats
Mysticism
Seventeenth-Century Perspectives
Eighteenth-Century Perspectives
Nineteenth-Century Perspectives
Twentieth-Century Perspectives
Selection 13.1: St. Anselm, Proslogion
Selection 13.2: St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
Selection 13.3: Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
Selection 13.4: Antony Flew, Theology and Falsification
Selection 13.5: Mary Daly, After the Death of God the Father
PART IV. OTHER VOICES 14. Feminist Philosphy The First Wave
The Second Wave
Selection 14.1: Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women
Selection 14.2: Simone de Beavoir, The Second Sex
Selection 14.3: Marielouise Janssen-Jurreit, Sexism: The Male Monopoly on History and Thought
Selection 14.4: Sandra Harding, Should the History and Philosophy of Science Be X-Rated?
Selection 14.5: Susan Moller Okin, Justice, Gender, and the Family
Selection 14.6: Karen J. Warren, The Power and the Promise of Ecological Feminism
15. An Era of Suspicion Jrgen Habermas
Michel Foucault
Structuralism versus Deconstruction
Richard Rorty
Selection 15.1: Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality
Selection 15.2: Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization
Selection 15.3: Jrgen Habermas, Toward a Rational Society
Selection 15.4: Richard Rorty, Philosophy and Social Hope
16. Eastern Influences Hinduism
Buddhism
Taoism
Conficianism
Zen Buddhism in China and Japan
The Philosophy of the Samurai (c. 1100-1900)
Selection 16.1: Confucius, Analects
Selection 16.2: Buddha, The Eightfold Path
17. Post-Colonial Thought Historical Background
Africa
The Americas
South Asia
Selection 17.1: Lold Sr Senghor, On African Socialism
Selection 17.2: Martin Luther King, Jr., The Sword that Heals
Selection 17.3: Carlos Astrada, Existentialism and the Crisis of Philosophy
Selection 17.4: Francisco Mir Quesada, Man without Theory
Selection 17.5: Sonia Saldivar-Hull, Feminism on the Border: From Gender Politics to Geopolitics
Selection 17.6: Mohandas K. Gandhi, Satyagraha
Selection 1