Looking At Philosophy: The Unbearable Heaviness of Philosophy Made Lighter
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Distilled from Donald Palmer's more than 30 years of teaching experiences, this approachable, historically organized text exemplifies Dr. Palmer's very successful light-hearted approach to teaching introduction to philosophy. Through the use of humor, drawings, charts, and diagrams, serious philosophical topics come alive for the readers—without compromising the seriousness of the subject matter. The text can be used as a core text or as a supplement to any reader.
Preface iiiIntroduction 11 The Pre-Socratic PhilosophersSixth and Fifth Centuries B.C.E. 11Thales 14Anaximander 17Anaximenes 23Pythagoras 25Xenophanes 28Heraclitus 31Parmenides 35Zeno 37Empedocles 40Anaxagoras 42Leucippus and Democritus 452 The Athenian PeriodFifth and Fourth Centuries B.C.E. 52The Sophists 52Protagoras 53Gorgias 54Thrasymachus 55Callicles and Critias 56Socrates 58Plato 63Aristotle 763 The Hellenistic and Roman PeriodsFourth Century B.C.E. through Fourth Century C.E. 96Epicureanism 96Stoicism 100Neoplatonism 1054 Medieval and Renaissance PhilosophyFifth through Fifteenth Centuries 109Saint Augustine 113The Encyclopediasts 118John Scotus Eriugena 120Saint Anselm 123Muslim and Jewish Philosophies 126Averroëet;s 128Maimonides 129The Problem of Faith and Reason 131The Problem of the Universals 132Saint Thomas Aquinas 135William of Ockham 147Renaissance Philosophers 1515 Continental Rationalism and British EmpiricismThe Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 160Descartes 160Hobbes 180Spinoza 185Leibniz 190Locke 196Berkeley 204Hume 209Kant 2186 Post-Kantian British and Continental PhilosophyThe Nineteenth Century 235Hegel 235Schopenhauer 245Kierkegaard 254Marx 266Nietzsche 279Utilitarianism 288Bentham 288Mill 293Frege 2967 Pragmatism, the Analytic Tradition, and the Phenomenological Tradition and Its AftermathThe Twentieth Century 305Pragmatism 305James 306Dewey 313The Analytic Tradition 318Moore 319Russell 324Logical Positivism 331Wittgenstein 337Quine349The Phenomenological Tradition and Its Aftermath 359Husserl 359Heidegger 363Sartre 371Structuralism and Poststructuralism 384Saussure 384Lévi-Strauss 387Lacan 392Derrida 398Farewell to the Twentieth Century 402Nussbaum 402Glossary of Philosophical Terms 416Selected Bibliography 433Index 443
