Wayward Reflections on the History of Philosophy

This history of Western philosophy is based upon two convictions: one is that this must be a subjective enterprise; the other is that its guiding aim should be to interpret the great diversity found among past philosophers as an understandable, connected, and progressive order. The author relates these philosophies to each other to discern a path through 2500 years of reflective thought as pointing toward a justifiable present position. Contents: Early Greek Philosophy; Plato; Aristotle; A Transition: The Stoics and Skeptics; The Emergence of Faith; Saint Augustine; Saint Thomas Aquinas; Faith and the Re-Emergence of Reason; Descartes; Leibniz and Spinoza; The British Empiricists; Kant and Schopenhauer; Vico; Hegel; Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind; After Hegel; A Summary Conclusion and a Look Beyond; Index.

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By James A. Diefenbeck

Summary

This history of Western philosophy is based upon two convictions. One that this must be a subjective enterprise and the other that its guiding aim should be to interpret the great diversity found among past philosophers as an understandable, connected and progressive order.

Product details

• Authors: James A Diefenbeck, James A. Diefenbeck, Diefenbeck James A.
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.11.1996
• EAN: 9780761804666
• ISBN: 978-0-7618-0466-6
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; RELIGION / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Religion & beliefs, Religion and beliefs, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy