An Illustrated Brief History Of Western Philosophy, 20th Anniversary Edition

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In 1998, the first edition of Anthony Kenny's comprehensive history of Western philosophy was published, to be met with immediate praise and critical acclaim. As the first book since Bertrand Russell's 1945 A History of Western Philosophy to offer a concise single-author review of the complete history of philosophy from the pre-Socratics to the modern masters of the 20th century, Kenny's work fills a critical gap in the modern philosophy reading list and offers valuable guidance for the general reader of philosophy—an ideal starting point for anyone with an interest in great thinkers and the family lines of philosophical evolution. Widely considered to be one of the most thorough and accessible historical reviews in philosophy, An Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy has earned an estimable and distinctive reputation, both for the compelling writing style of Anthony Kenny, one of the most respected and accomplished living philosophers, and for the rich collection of paintings, illustrations, maps, and photos included with every chapter to complement this review of 2,500 years of philosophical thought. Newly revised and expanded for a special 20th anniversary publication, the latest edition of An Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy contains all of Kenny's original writings on the history of Western philosophy from ancient to modern, along with new writings on the philosophy of the mid-20th century, covering important contributions from continental philosophers and philosophers of the post-Wittgenstein anglophone tradition, including the work of many women who have too often been neglected by the historical record. An Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy: 20th Anniversary Edition......Page 1 Contents......Page 7 Preface......Page 13 List of Illustrations......Page 17 Acknowledgements......Page 19 Introduction......Page 21 I: Philosophy In Its Infancy......Page 33 The Milesians......Page 35 Xenophanes......Page 37 Heraclitus......Page 38 The School of Parmenides......Page 40 Empedocles......Page 46 The Atomists......Page 49 The Athenian Empire......Page 52 The Sophists......Page 54 Socrates......Page 56 The Euthyphro......Page 58 The Crito......Page 61 The Phaedo......Page 62 Life and Works......Page 68 The Theory of Ideas......Page 70 Plato's Republic......Page 73 The Theaetetus and the Sophist......Page 82 Plato's Pupil, Alexander's Teacher......Page 89 The Foundation of Logic......Page 91 The Theory of Drama......Page 95 Moral Philosophy: Virtue and Happiness......Page 96 Moral Philosophy: Wisdom and Understanding......Page 100 Politics......Page 103 Science and Explanation......Page 104 Words and Things......Page 106 Motion and Change......Page 108 Soul, Sense, and Intellect......Page 110 Metaphysics......Page 113 The Hellenistic Era......Page 117 Epicureanism......Page 119 Stoicism......Page 121 Scepticism......Page 123 Rome and its Empire......Page 125 Jesus of Nazareth......Page 126 Christianity and Gnosticism......Page 128 Neo-Platonism......Page 131 Arianism and Orthodoxy......Page 134 The Theology of Incarnation......Page 137 The Life of Augustine......Page 139 The City of God and the Mystery of Grace......Page 142 Boethius and Philoponus......Page 145 John the Scot......Page 150 Alkindi and Avicenna......Page 153 The Feudal System......Page 155 Saint Anselm......Page 156 Abelard and Héloïse......Page 158 Abelard's Logic......Page 160 Abelard's Ethics......Page 162 Averroes......Page 163 Maimonides......Page 165 An Age of Innovation......Page 167 Saint Bonaventure......Page 170 Thirteenth-Century Logic......Page 172 Aquinas' Life and Works......Page 173 Aquinas' Natural Theology......Page 175 Matter, Form, Substance, and Accident......Page 177 Aquinas on Essence and Existence......Page 179 Aquinas' Philosophy of Mind......Page 180 Aquinas' Moral Philosophy......Page 181 The Fourteenth-Century University......Page 186 Duns Scotus......Page 187 Ockham's Logic of Language......Page 194 Ockham's Political Theory......Page 196 The Oxford Calculators......Page 199 John Wyclif......Page 200 The Renaissance......Page 203 Free-will: Rome vs. Louvain......Page 204 Renaissance Platonism......Page 207 Machiavelli......Page 208 More's Utopia......Page 211 The Reformation......Page 213 Post-Reformation Philosophy......Page 217 Bruno and Galileo......Page 219 Francis Bacon......Page 221 The Wars of Religion......Page 226 The Life of Descartes......Page 227 The Doubt and the Cogito......Page 230 The Essence of Mind......Page 232 God, Mind, and Body......Page 233 The Material World......Page 237 The Empiricism of Thomas Hobbes......Page 241 Hobbes' Political Philosophy......Page 243 The Political Theory of John Locke......Page 246 Locke on Ideas and Qualities......Page 248 Substances and Persons......Page 251 Blaise Pascal......Page 256 Spinoza and Malebranche......Page 267 Leibniz......Page 272 Berkeley......Page 277 Hume's Philosophy of Mind......Page 282 Hume on Causation......Page 286 Reid and Common Sense......Page 288 The Philosophes......Page 291 Rousseau......Page 292 Revolution and Romanticism......Page 296 Kant's Copernican Revolution......Page 299 The Transcendental Aesthetic......Page 301 The Transcendental Analytic: The Deduction of the Categories......Page 303 The Transcendental Analytic: The System of Principles......Page 306 The Transcendental Dialectic: The Paralogisms of Pure Reason......Page 309 The Transcendental Dialectic: The Antinomies of Pure Reason......Page 311 The Transcendental Dialectic: The Critique of Natural Theology......Page 314 Kant's Moral Philosophy......Page 316 Fichte......Page 320 Hegel......Page 321 Marx and the Young Hegelians......Page 325 Capitalism and its Discontents......Page 327 Jeremy Bentham......Page 330 The Utilitarianism of J. S. Mill......Page 335 Mill's Logic......Page 337 Schopenhauer......Page 341 Kierkegaard......Page 347 Nietzsche......Page 350 Charles Darwin......Page 353 John Henry Newman......Page 358 Sigmund Freud......Page 362 Frege's Logic......Page 369 Frege's Logicism......Page 371 Frege's Philosophy of Logic......Page 374 Russell's Paradox......Page 375 Russell's Theory of Descriptions......Page 377 Logical Analysis......Page 380 Henri Bergson......Page 382 Husserl's Phenomenology......Page 387 The Existentialism of Heidegger......Page 389 The Existentialism of Sartre and de Beauvoir......Page 391 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus......Page 396 Logical Positivism......Page 399 Philosophical Investigations......Page 401 The Frankfurt School......Page 412 Jacques Derrida......Page 419 Jurgen Habermas......Page 422 XXV: Recent Analytic Philosophy......Page 428 Elizabeth Anscombe......Page 429 W. V. O. Quine......Page 430 Donald Davidson......Page 433 Peter Geach......Page 434 Peter Strawson......Page 436 American Metaphysics......Page 437 The Cartesian Revival......Page 439 Analytical Ethics......Page 441 John Rawls......Page 445 Richard Rorty......Page 446 Afterword......Page 449 Suggestions for Further Reading......Page 452 Index......Page 461 End User License Agreement......Page 471