简介
Readers eager to acquire a basic familiarity with the history of philosophy but intimidated by the task will find in A Passion for Wisdom: A Very Brief History of Philosophy a lively, accessible, and highly enjoyable tour of the world's great ideas. Without simplifying their subject, Robert Solomon and Kathleen Higgins tell the story of philosophy's development with great clarity and refreshing wit. The brevity of their study, in fact, allows readers to see more clearly
the connections and divergences between philosophers, as well as the way ideas change, reappear, and evolve over time. The authors begin with the most ancient religious beliefs and bring us right up to the feminist and multicultural philosophies of the present. Along the way, major philosophers are highlighted, from Plato and Aquinas to William James and Simone deBeauvoir, and major categories explored, from metaphysics and ethics to politics and logic.
目录
Table Of Contents:
Preface ix
Timeline xi
Part I Is There Ultimate Truth?
In the Beginning 3(6)
Whence the World? Early Philosophy in India 9(3)
The Hebrews, Their God, and the Law 12(3)
Why Suffering? Zoroastrianism and the Problem of Evil 15(3)
What is Enlightenment? Buddhism and Jainism 18(4)
In Search of Harmony: Confucius, Taoism, and Mo 22(4)
The Stuff of the World: Early Greek Philosophy 26(7)
How Should We Live? Socrates and the Sophists 33(3)
The Philosopher's Philosophers: Plato and Aristotle 36(7)
When the Going Gets Tough: After Aristotle 43(2)
Before the ``Discovery'' of Africa and the Americas 45(6)
Part II Faith and Reason
The Birth of Christianity 51(3)
Neoplatonism, Augustine, and the Inner Life of Spirit 54(3)
To Mecca: The Rise of Islam 57(2)
Altered States: Mysticism and Zen 59(2)
Reason and Faith: The Peripatetic Tradition 61(2)
Thinking God: Scholasticism 63(3)
``Rebirth'' in Religion and Philosophy: Renaissance and Reformation 66(3)
The New Science and its Politics 69(3)
Who Knows? The Role of Doubt in Descartes and Montaigne 72(3)
Why Do Things Happen? Spinoza, Leibniz, and Newton 75(5)
The Search for Universals: Enlightenment 80(1)
``Show Me!'' Locke, Hume, and Empiricism 81(2)
Philosophy and Revolution 83(4)
Adam Smith and the New World of Commerce 87(2)
Part III From Modernity to Postmodernism
The Domain(s) of Reason: Kant 89(5)
Hegel and History 94(4)
The Battle Between Poetry and Philosophy: Romanticism 98(3)
Beyond Hegel: Kierkegaard, Feuerbach, and Marx 101(3)
Where to, Humanity? Mill, Darwin, and Nietzsche 104(4)
From Puritanism to Pragmatism: Philosophy in America 108(5)
Back to Basics: Frege, Russell, and Husserl 113(3)
The Limits of Rationality: Wittgenstein, Freud, and Weber 116(3)
The Progress of Process: Against Analysis 119(1)
The Tragic Sense of Life: Unamuno, Croce, and Heidegger 120(2)
Reactions to Fascism: Positivism and Existentialism 122(3)
Philosophy Discovers ``the Other'': The Question of Postmodernism 125(4)
A Brief Bibliography 129(4)
Index 133
Preface ix
Timeline xi
Part I Is There Ultimate Truth?
In the Beginning 3(6)
Whence the World? Early Philosophy in India 9(3)
The Hebrews, Their God, and the Law 12(3)
Why Suffering? Zoroastrianism and the Problem of Evil 15(3)
What is Enlightenment? Buddhism and Jainism 18(4)
In Search of Harmony: Confucius, Taoism, and Mo 22(4)
The Stuff of the World: Early Greek Philosophy 26(7)
How Should We Live? Socrates and the Sophists 33(3)
The Philosopher's Philosophers: Plato and Aristotle 36(7)
When the Going Gets Tough: After Aristotle 43(2)
Before the ``Discovery'' of Africa and the Americas 45(6)
Part II Faith and Reason
The Birth of Christianity 51(3)
Neoplatonism, Augustine, and the Inner Life of Spirit 54(3)
To Mecca: The Rise of Islam 57(2)
Altered States: Mysticism and Zen 59(2)
Reason and Faith: The Peripatetic Tradition 61(2)
Thinking God: Scholasticism 63(3)
``Rebirth'' in Religion and Philosophy: Renaissance and Reformation 66(3)
The New Science and its Politics 69(3)
Who Knows? The Role of Doubt in Descartes and Montaigne 72(3)
Why Do Things Happen? Spinoza, Leibniz, and Newton 75(5)
The Search for Universals: Enlightenment 80(1)
``Show Me!'' Locke, Hume, and Empiricism 81(2)
Philosophy and Revolution 83(4)
Adam Smith and the New World of Commerce 87(2)
Part III From Modernity to Postmodernism
The Domain(s) of Reason: Kant 89(5)
Hegel and History 94(4)
The Battle Between Poetry and Philosophy: Romanticism 98(3)
Beyond Hegel: Kierkegaard, Feuerbach, and Marx 101(3)
Where to, Humanity? Mill, Darwin, and Nietzsche 104(4)
From Puritanism to Pragmatism: Philosophy in America 108(5)
Back to Basics: Frege, Russell, and Husserl 113(3)
The Limits of Rationality: Wittgenstein, Freud, and Weber 116(3)
The Progress of Process: Against Analysis 119(1)
The Tragic Sense of Life: Unamuno, Croce, and Heidegger 120(2)
Reactions to Fascism: Positivism and Existentialism 122(3)
Philosophy Discovers ``the Other'': The Question of Postmodernism 125(4)
A Brief Bibliography 129(4)
Index 133
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