A new history of Western philosophy / Anthony Kenny.

Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2004-2007.

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Philosophy, Ancient.

Philosophy, Medieval.

Philosophy, Modern.

Philosophy -- History.

Volume 1: Ancient Philosophy

1. Beginnings: from Pythagoras to Plato

2. Schools of thought: from Aristotle to Augustine

3. How to argue: logic

4. Knowledge and its limits: epistemology

5. How things happen: physics

6. What there is: metaphysics

7. Soul and mind

8. How to live: ethics

9. God.

Volume 2: Medieval philosophy

1. Philosophy and faith: Augustine to Maimonides

2. The schoolmen: from the twelfth century to the Renaissance

3. Logic and language

4. Knowledge

5. Physics

6. Metaphysics

7. Mind and soul

8. Ethics

9. God.

Volume 3: The Rise of Modern Philosophy

1. Sixteenth-century philosophy

2. Descartes to Berkeley

3. Hume to Hegel

4. Knowledge

5. Physics

6. Metaphysics

7. Mind and soul

8. Ethics

9. Political philosophy

10. God.

Volume 4: Philosophy in the Modern World

1. Bentham to Nietzsche

2. Pierce to Strawson

3. Freud to Derrida

4. Logic

5. Language

6. Epistemology

7. Metaphysics

8. Philosophy of mind

9. Ethics

10. Aesthetics

11. Political philosophy

12. God.

This book is no less than a guide to the whole of Western philosophy--the ideas that have undergirded our civilization for two-and-a-half thousand years. Anthony Kenny tells the story of philosophy from ancient Greece through the Middle Ages and the Enlightenment into the modern world. He introduces us to the great thinkers and their ideas, starting with Plato, Aristotle, and the other founders of Western thought. In the second part of the book he takes us through a thousand years of medieval philosophy, and shows us the rich intellectual legacy of Christian thinkers like Augustine, Aquinas, and Ockham. Moving into the early modern period, we explore the great works of Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Leibniz, Spinoza, Hume, and Kant, which remain essential reading today. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Hegel, Mill, Nietzsche, Freud, and Wittgenstein again transformed the way we see the world.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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4 volumes : maps, illustrations ; 24 cm.