Looking at Philosophy : The Unbearable Heaviness of Philosophy Made Lighter
ISBN: 9780073407487 | 0073407488
Edition: 5thFormat: Nonspecific Binding
Publisher: MCGRAW HILL
Pub. Date: 6/1/2010
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Distilled from Donald Palmer's more than thirty years to teaching experience, this text exemplifies his very successful approach to teaching introductory philosophy. Through the use of humor and about 400 drawings, charts, and diagrams, serious philosophical topics come alive for the reader without compromising the importance of the subject matter. In the author's words, "This book takes philosophy seriously, but not gravely."
| Preface | p. iii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Pre-Socratic Philosophers | |
| Sixth and Fifth Centuries B.C.E. | p. 11 |
| Thales | p. 14 |
| Anaximander | p. 17 |
| Anaximenes | p. 23 |
| Pythagoras | p. 25 |
| Xenophanes | p. 28 |
| Heraclitus | p. 31 |
| Parmenides | p. 35 |
| Zeno | p. 37 |
| Emped... MORE | p. 40 |
| Anaxagoras | p. 42 |
| Leucippus and Democritus | p. 45 |
| The Athenian Period | |
| Fifth and Fourth Centuries B.C.E. | p. 52 |
| The Sophists | p. 52 |
| Protagoras | p. 53 |
| Gorgias | p. 54 |
| Thrasymachus | p. 55 |
| Callicles and Critias | p. 56 |
| Socrates | p. 58 |
| Plato | p. 63 |
| Aristotle | p. 76 |
| The Hellenistic and Roman Periods | |
| Fourth Century B.C.E. through Fourth Century C.E. | p. 96 |
| Epicureanism | p. 96 |
| Stoicism | p. 100 |
| Neoplatonism | p. 105 |
| Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy | |
| Fifth through Fifteenth Centuries | p. 109 |
| Saint Augustine | p. 113 |
| The Encyclopediasts | p. 118 |
| John Scotus Eriugena | p. 120 |
| Saint Anselm | p. 123 |
| Muslim and Jewish Philosophies | p. 126 |
| Averroëet;s | p. 128 |
| Maimonides | p. 129 |
| The Problem of Faith and Reason | p. 131 |
| The Problem of the Universals | p. 132 |
| Saint Thomas Aquinas | p. 135 |
| William of Ockham | p. 147 |
| Renaissance Philosophers | p. 151 |
| Continental Rationalism and British Empiricism | |
| The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries | p. 160 |
| Descartes | p. 160 |
| Hobbes | p. 180 |
| Spinoza | p. 185 |
| Leibniz | p. 190 |
| Locke | p. 196 |
| Berkeley | p. 204 |
| Hume | p. 209 |
| Kant | p. 218 |
| Post-Kantian British and Continental Philosophy | |
| The Nineteenth Century | p. 235 |
| Hegel | p. 235 |
| Schopenhauer | p. 245 |
| Kierkegaard | p. 254 |
| Marx | p. 266 |
| Nietzsche | p. 279 |
| Utilitarianism | p. 288 |
| Bentham | p. 288 |
| Mill | p. 293 |
| Frege | p. 296 |
| Pragmatism, the Analytic Tradition, and the Phenomenological Tradition and Its Aftermath | |
| The Twentieth Century | p. 305 |
| Pragmatism | p. 305 |
| James | p. 306 |
| Dewey | p. 313 |
| The Analytic Tradition | p. 318 |
| Moore | p. 319 |
| Russell | p. 324 |
| Logical Positivism | p. 331 |
| Wittgenstein | p. 337 |
| Quine | p. 349 |
| The Phenomenological Tradition and Its Aftermath | p. 359 |
| Husserl | p. 359 |
| Heidegger | p. 363 |
| Sartre | p. 371 |
| Structuralism and Poststructuralism | p. 384 |
| Saussure | p. 384 |
| Lévi-Strauss | p. 387 |
| Lacan | p. 392 |
| Derrida | p. 398 |
| Farewell to the Twentieth Century | p. 402 |
| Nussbaum | p. 402 |
| Glossary of Philosophical Terms | p. 416 |
| Selected Bibliography | p. 433 |
| Index | p. 443 |
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