Preface

Introduction

1. The Pre-Socratic Philosophers

 Sixth and Fifth Centuries B.C.E.

 Thales

 Anaximander

 Anaximenes

 Pythagoras

 Xenophanes

 Heraclitus

 Parmenides

 Zeno

 Empedocles

 Anaxagoras

 Leucippus and Democritus

2. The Athenian Period

 Fifthand Fourth Centuries B.C.E

 The Sophists

 Protagoras

 Gorgias

 Thrasymachus

 Callicles and Critias 56

 Socrates

 Plato

 Aristotle

3. The Hellenistic and Roman Periods

 Fourth Century B.C.E. through Fourth Centuryc.E.

 Epicureanism

 Stoicism

 Neoplatonism

4. Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy

 Fifth through Fifteenth Centuries

 Saint Augustine

 The Encyclopediasts

 John ScotusEriugena

 Saint Anselm

 Muslim and Jewish Philosophies

 Averroes

 Maimonides

 The Problem of Faith and Reason

 The Problem of the Universals

 SaintThomas Aquinas

 William of Ockham

 Renaissance Philosophers

5. Continental Rationalism

 and British Empiricism

 The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

 Descartes

 Hobbes

 Spinoza

 Leibniz

 Locke

 Berkeley

 Hume

 Kant

6. Post-Kantian British

 and Continental Philosophy

 The Nineteenth Century

 lie,gel

 Schopenhauer

 Kierkegaard

 Marx

 Nietzsche

 Utilitarianism

 Bentham

 Mill

 Frege

 Pragmatism, the Analytic Tradition,

 and the Phenomenological Tradition

 and Its Aftermath

 The Twentieth Century

 Pragmatism

 James

 Dewey

 The Analytic Tradition

 Moore

 Russell

 Logical Positivism

 Wittgenstein

 Ouine

 The Phenomenological Tradition and Its Aftermath

 Husserl

 Heidegger

 Sartre

 Structuralism and Poststructuralism

 Saussure

 Levi-Strauss

 Lacan

 Derrida

 Farewell to the Twentieth Century

 Nussbaum

 Glossaryof PhilosophicalTerms

 Selected Bibliography

 Index

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