Research Catalog

Title

Philosophy and living / Ralph Blumenau.

Author

Blumenau, Ralph, 1924-

Publication

Thorverton, UK ; Charlottesville, VA : Imprint Academic, ©2002.

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Details

Description

viii, 630 pages; 25 cm

Summary

In this text, Ralph Blumenau presents a non-specialist account of how great thinkers of the past affect us today.

Subjects

• Philosophie
• Geschichte
• Philosophy
• philosophy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographic references and index.

Contents

pt. 1. Greece and Rome. 1. The Greek Cosmologists. 2. Pythagoras. 3. Protagoras and the Sophists. 4. Socrates. 5. Plato. 6. Aristotle. 7. The Hellenistic Period. 8. Stoicism. 9. Judaism, Christianity and Hellenism. 10. Neo-Platonism. 11. Gnosticism -- pt. 2. The Middle Ages. 12. Christians and Authority. 13. St. Augustine. 14. Realism and Nominalism. 15. Averroism. 16. Thomas Aquinas. 17. The Franciscans. 18. State and Church -- pt. 3. Renaissance and Reformation. 19. The Humanist Renaissance. 20. The Reformation. 21. The Scientific Revolution -- pt. 4. The Seventeenth Century. 22. Descartes. 23. Pascal. 24. Spinoza. 25. Leibniz. 26. Seventeenth Century Political Thought -- pt. 5. The Eighteenth Century. 27. British Pragmatists. 28. The Enlightenment. 29. The Early Romantics. 30. Eighteenth-Century Philosophies of History -- pt. 6. The Nineteenth Century. 31. Kant. 32. Kant's Successors. 33. Hegel. 34. Schopenhauer. 35. Kierkegaard. 36. Utilitarianism. 37. The Notion of Progress. 38. Philosophies of History in the 19th & 20th Centuries. 39. Nietzsche and Bergson -- pt. 7. The Twentieth Century. 40. Twentieth-Century Existentialism. 41. Twentieth-Century Pragmatism. 42. Russell. 43. Wittgenstein. 44. Logical Positivism. 45. Popper and Kuhn. 46. Berlin. 47. Freud and Jung. 48. Structuralism and Post-Structuralism

ISBN

• 0907845339
• 9780907845331

LCCN

2002102728

OCLC

• ocm50495117
• 50495117
• SCSB-9434934

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library