Philosophy
Book - 2014
A journey through all the major philosophers and schools from pre-Socratics to Post-Modernism, including Renaissance Humanism, Idealism, Existentialism, and religious philosophies, showing the relevance of philosophical ideas to everyday life. Illustrations help to explain and enhance philosophical ideas.
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- Published
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New York, New York :
Alpha, a member of the Penguin Group (USA) Inc
[2014]
©2014 - Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- Fourth edition
- Item Description
- Previous edition: published as The complete idiot's guide to philosophy. 2005.
- Physical Description
- xvi, 334 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781615644445
- A broad overview
- Ontology
- Epistemology
- Ethics
- The pre-Socratics, the Sophists, and Socrates
- Plato
- Aristotle
- Stoicism, epicureanism, and skepticism
- Middle Eastern religious philosophy
- Medieval philosophy
- Renaissance humanism
- The rise of science
- Spinoza, Leibniz, and Cavendish
- Empiricism
- The French enlightenment
- Idealism
- Mill, Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche
- Psychology, sociology, and anthropology
- Pragmatism
- Analytic philosophy
- Critical theory
- Phenomenology and existentialism
- Structuralism
- Post-structuralism
- Post-modernism
- Feminism
- New age philosophy
- Systems theory.