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The story of philosophy

Title
The story of philosophy / Bryan Magee.
Author
Magee, Bryan.
Publication
New York : DK Pub., 1998.

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240 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map; 28 cm.
Subject
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-233) and index.
Contents
Introduction. An invitation to philosophy -- The Greeks and their world. Before Socrates ; Socrates ; Plato ; Aristotle ; The Cynics ; The Sceptics ; The Epicureans ; The Stoics -- Christianity and philosophy. Saint Augustine ; Medieval philosophy -- The beginnings of modern science. Copernicus ; Newton ; Machiavelli ; Francis Bacon ; Hobbes -- The great rationalists. Descartes ; Spinoza ; Leibniz -- The great empiricists. Locke ; Berkeley ; Hume ; Burke -- Revolutionary French thinkers. Voltaire ; Diderot ; Rousseau -- A golden century of German philosophy. Kant ; Schopenhauer ; Some comparisons of East and West ; Ficht ; Schelling ; Hegel ; Marx ; Nietzsche -- Democracy and philosophy. The Utilitarians ; The American Pragmatists -- 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.
Call Number
JFF 01-3155
ISBN
078943511X
LCCN
98003780
OCLC
38752892
Author
Magee, Bryan.
Title
The story of philosophy / Bryan Magee.
Imprint
New York : DK Pub., 1998.
Edition
1st American ed.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-233) and index.
Research Call Number
JFF 01-3155
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