A New History of Western Philosophy

A New History of Western Philosophy

 
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ISBN13:9780199656493
ISBN10:0199656495
Binding:Paperback
No. of pages:1088 pages
Size:234x163x54 mm
Weight:1556 g
Language:English
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Sir Anthony Kenny presents a fascinating and authoritative new history of Western philosophy. Specially written for a broad popular readership, Kenny's lucid and stimulating history will become the definitive work for anyone interested in the people and ideas that shaped the course of Western thought.

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This book is no less than a guide to the whole of Western philosophy--the ideas that have undergirded our civilization for two-and-a-half thousand years. Anthony Kenny tells the story of philosophy from ancient Greece through the Middle Ages and the Enlightenment into the modern world. He introduces us to the great thinkers and their ideas, starting with Plato, Aristotle, and the other founders of Western thought. In the second part of the book he takes us through a thousand years of medieval philosophy, and shows us the rich intellectual legacy of Christian thinkers like Augustine, Aquinas, and Ockham. Moving into the early modern period, we explore the great works of Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Leibniz, Spinoza, Hume, and Kant, which remain essential reading today. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Hegel, Mill, Nietzsche, Freud, and Wittgenstein again transformed the way we see the world.
Running though the book are certain themes which have been constant concerns of philosophy since its early beginnings: the fundamental questions of what exists and how we can know about it; the nature of humanity, the mind, truth, and meaning; the place of God in the universe; how we should live and how society should be ordered. Anthony Kenny traces the development of these themes through the centuries: we see how the questions asked and answers offered by the great philosophers of the past remain vividly alive today.
Anyone interested in ideas and their history will find this a fascinating and stimulating read.

This is an excellent update on the original. The main advantage of this much fatter version is the direct contact with primary sources that it gives to students ... I have nominated this as the main textbook for the course I teach
Table of Contents:
Beginnings: From Pythagoras to Plato
Schools of Thought: From Aristotle to Augustine
Argument and Reason: Logic
Knowledge and its Limits
How Things Happen: Physics
What There Is: Metaphysics
Soul and Mind
How to Live: Ethics
God
Philosophy and Faith: Augustine to Maimonides
The Schoolmen: From the Twelfth Century to the Renaissance
Logic and Language
Knowledge
Physics
Metaphysics
Mind and Soul
Ethics
God
Sixteenth-Century Philosophy
Descartes to Berkeley
Hume to Hegel
Knowledge
Physics
Metaphysics
Mind and Soul
Ethics
Political Philosophy
God
From Bentham to Nietzsche
From Peirce to Strawson
From Freud to Derrida
Logic
Language
Epistemology
Metaphysics
Philosophy of Mind
Ethics
Aesthetics
Politics
God
Chronology