General Introduction ........................................... ix
Part One: Ancient Philosophy
List of Contents of Part One .................................... 3
Introduction to Part One ........................................ 7
1 Beginnings: From Pythagoras to Plato ......................... 8
2 Schools of Thought: From Aristotle to Augustine ............. 57
3 How to Argue: Logic ......................................... 95
4 Knowledge and its Limits: Epistemology ..................... 118
5 How Things Happen: Physics ................................. 143
6 What There Is: Metaphysics ................................. 160
7 Soul and Mind .............................................. 183
8 How to Live: Ethics ........................................ 204
9 God ........................................................ 228
Part Two: Medieval Philosophy
List of Contents of Part Two .................................. 253
Introduction to Part Two ...................................... 257
1 Philosophy and Faith: Augustine to Maimonides .............. 261
2 The Schoolmen: From the Twelfth Century to the
Renaissance ................................................ 299
3 Logic and Language ......................................... 344
4 Knowledge .................................................. 375
5 Physics .................................................... 391
6 Metaphysics ................................................ 401
7 Mind and Soul .............................................. 420
8 Ethics ..................................................... 449
9 God ........................................................ 468
Part Three: The Rise of Modern Philosophy
List of Contents of Part Three ................................ 497
Introduction to Part Three .................................... 501
1 Sixteenth-Century Philosophy ............................... 503
2 Descartes to Berkeley ...................................... 526
3 Hume to Hegel .............................................. 562
4 Knowledge .................................................. 588
5 Physics .................................................... 624
6 Metaphysics ................................................ 636
7 Mind and Soul .............................................. 659
8 Ethics ..................................................... 685
9 Political Philosophy ....................................... 705
10 God ........................................................ 727
Part Four: Philosophy in the Modern World
List of Contents of Part Four ................................. 751
Introduction to Part Four ..................................... 755
1 Bentham to Nietzsche........................................ 757
2 Peirce to Strawson ......................................... 781
3 Freud to Derrida ........................................... 810
4 Logic ...................................................... 829
5 Language ................................................... 848
6 Epistemology ............................................... 865
7 Metaphysics ................................................ 884
8 Philosophy of Mind ......................................... 901
9 Ethics ..................................................... 922
10 Aesthetics ................................................. 945
11 Political Philosophy ....................................... 961
12 God ........................................................ 977
Chronology .................................................... 997
Abbreviations and Conventions ................................ 1001
Bibliography ................................................. 1015
Index ........................................................ 1045
Detailed contents lists are placed at the beginning of
each part.
There are maps before the introductions of Parts One,
Two, and Three.
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