Philosophy: The Power Of Ideas
by Moore, Brooke Noel; Bruder, KennethEdition: 8th
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2010-02-17
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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Summary
This comprehensive introductory text with readings offers a historical overview of all major subdivisions of Western Philosophy perspectives. Written in an engaging and captivating style, it makes philosophy accessible without oversimplifying the material, and shows that philosophy's powerful ideas affect the lives of real people.
Table of Contents
| Powerful Ideas | |
| Metaphysics and Epistemology: Existence and Knowledge | |
| The Pre-Socratics | |
| Socrates, Plato | |
| Aristotle | |
| Philosophers of the Hellenistic and Christian Eras | |
| The Rise of Modern Metaphysics and Epistemology | |
| The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries | |
| The Continental Tradition | |
| The Pragmatic and Analytic Traditions | |
| Moral and Political Philosophy | |
| Moral Philosophy | |
| Political Philosophy | |
| Recent Moral and Political Philosophy | |
| Philosophy of Religion: Reason and Faith | |
| Philosophy and Belief in God | |
| Other Voices | |
| Feminist Philosophy | |
| Eastern Influences | |
| Postcolonial Thought | |
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