A Critical History of Western Philosophy: Greek, Medieval and Modern

Voorkant
Motilal Banarsidass Publ., 1999 - 601 pagina's
This is the enlarged edition of a Critical History of Modern Philosophy. In this new edition Greek and Medieval Philosophies have been added. The book also includes a critical and comparative account of the major contributions of eight modern thinkers. To this exposition the idealism of Hegel and Bradley has been introduced. Recent discussions concerning Hume, Kant, Hegel and Bradley have also been incorporated. Whilst giving fully an analytic account of topics, the author maintains that philosophy is a holistic enterprise of man, as we find it in Spinoza, Kant, Hegel and Bradley.The book has turned out to be a reliable and useful to the students of the subject throughout India. This thoroughly revised and enlarged edition will prove to be all the more serviceable in general.
 

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What is philosophy? 1 Orphic Religion 1 Characteristics of early Greek thought
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Pythagoras 6 Ethics 7 Mathematics and Pythagoras 7 Cosmogony 9
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Empedocles 19 Anaxagoras 21 The importance of Anaxagoras 24 The Atomists
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of the Government 70 The immortality of soul 73 Transmigration 74 Bondage
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Aristotle Introduction 83 Logic 84 Plato and Aristotle 85 Aristotles criticism
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Potentiality and Actuality 96 Theology of Aristotle 98 Proofs for Gods
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Greek System 31113
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Cynicism 114 Aristippus of Cyrene 115 The school of Megara 118 Stoics
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comment on cogito ergo sum 203 2 02B Importance of the cogito 203 2 03
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world 208 2 08 Truth and Error 210 2 09 Mind and Body 211 2 10 The estimate
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substance attributes and modes 225 3 06 Implication of the doctrine
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz 16461716
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and Teleology 253 4 08 Theory of knowledge 254 4 09 The criticism of Lockean
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ideas 266 5 04 Refutation of innate ideas 267 5 05 The origin and formation
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knowledge 278 5 15 Degrees of knowledge 279 5 16 Validity or reality
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existence of spirits 303 6 06 The idealism of Berkeley 305 6 07 Is Berkeleys
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physics 127 Ethics 128 Social and Public life 130 Epicureanism and Stoicism
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Neoplatonism and Greek philosophy 136 Philo 137 Plotinus 138 Philosophy 139
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The doctrine of man 145 The problem of Evil 146 The tale of two cities
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Christian theology 154 Anselm 156 Ontological Argument 156 Peter Abelard
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Theory of knowledge 160 Proofs for the existence of God 161 Knowledge of
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170 John Duns Scotus 172 Philosophy and Theology 172 The doctrine
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universals 173 Will and Intellect 174 William of Occam or Ockham 176
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Evolution 179 2 Freedom of will 180 3 Early Greek thinkers and their
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MODERN PHILOSOPHY
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philosophy?
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tions and knowledge 319 7 05 The idea of cause 322 7 06 Belief in the existence
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Primacy of Practical Reason 390 8 41 Phenomena and Noumena 392 8 42
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Immanuel Kant 17241804 330399
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idealistic Methaphysics 404 9 03 The Hegelian theory of Concrete Universal 406
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outline of Hegels Idealism 421 9 07 Hegelian Monism 423 9 08 The first
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Francis Herbart Bradley 18461924 453538
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Reality 490 10 11 Introductory remarks on Bradleys Logic 493 10 12 The nature
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Index
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