A History of Western Philosophy: From the Pre-Socratics to Postmodernism

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Plato. Aristotle. Augustine. Hume. Kant. Hegel. These names and the philosophies associated with them ring through the minds of every student and scholar of philosophy. And in their search for knowledge, every student of philosophy needs to know the history of the philosophical discourse such giants have bequeathed us. Noted philosopher C. Stephen Evans brings his expertise to this daunting task as he surveys the history of Western philosophy, from the Pre-Socratics to Nietzsche and postmodernism--and every major figure and movement in between. Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgments 1 Introduction to the Project 2 The Beginnings of Western Philosophy: The Pre-Socratics 3 Socrates and the Sophists 4 Plato 5 Aristotle 6 Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods: Epicureanism, Stoicism, Skepticism, and Neoplatonism 7 Early Christian Thought Through Augustine 8 Early Medieval Philosophy 9 The High Middle Ages (I): Thomas Aquinas 10 The High Middle Ages (II): Bonaventure, Scotus, Ockham 11 Philosophy Between the Medieval and Modern Periods 12 Descartes and the Beginning of Modern Philosophy 13 Continental Rationalism: Spinoza and Leibniz 14 British Empiricism: Locke and Berkeley 15 The Scottish Enlightenment (I): David Hume 16 The Scottish Enlightenment (II): Thomas Reid 17 Enlightenment Deism, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Mary Wollstonecraft 18 Immanuel Kant 19 German Idealism and Hegel 20 Karl Marx 21 Søren Kierkegaard 22 John Stuart Mill and Nineteenth-Century Positivism 23 Friedrich Nietzsche 24 Conclusions: Some Lessons from the History of Western Philosophy General Index Scripture Index Praise for The History of Western Philosophy About the Author More Titles from InterVarsity Press IVP Academic Textbook Selector