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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- The examined Life -- 1: What is There? -- 2: Is there a God? -- 3: What is it to be Human? -- 4: What can we Know? -- 5: How should we Live? -- 6: How do we make a Good Society? -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- For More Information -- For Further Reading -- Index -- Back Cover

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Western Philosophy, from the Greeks to the Renaissance -- Introductory Discussion Questions -- The Greek Miracle -- Elements and the Nature of Change -- Heraclitus and Change -- Changelessness and Mathematics -- Greek Atomism -- Sophists and Socrates -- Plato -- Aristotle -- Hellenistic Philosophy -- Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy -- Concluding Discussion Questions -- Further Reading -- Glossary -- Key People -- Part II: Modern Philosophy -- Introductory Discussion Questions -- An Overview of Modern Philosophy -- Introduction to Empiricism and Rationalism -- René Descartes -- Thomas Hobbes -- Baruch Spinoza -- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz -- John Locke -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- George Berkeley -- David Hume -- Immanuel Kant -- Concluding Discussion Questions -- Further Reading -- Glossary -- Key People -- Part III: Continental Philosophy -- Introductory Discussion Questions -- Introduction to Continental Philosophy -- Hegel and German Idealism -- Karl Marx -- Soren Kierkegaard -- Friedrich Nietzsche -- Phenomenology -- Edmund Husserl -- Martin Heidegger -- Existentialism -- Jean-Paul Sartre -- Simone de Beauvoir -- Hermeneutics -- Critical Theory -- Structuralism -- Post-structuralism, Deconstruction, and Postmodernism -- Continental Philosophy Today -- Concluding Discussion Questions -- Further Reading -- Glossary -- Key People -- Part IV: Analytic Philosophy -- Introductory Discussion Questions -- Analytic Philosophy -- Gottlob Frege -- G. E. Moore and Bertrand Russell -- The Early Work of Ludwig Wittgenstein -- Logical Positivism -- Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations -- Ordinary Language Philosophy -- Willard Van Orman Quine -- New Developments -- More Recent Developments-Saul Kripke -- Pragmatist Responses to Analytic Philosophy -- Concluding Discussion Questions.

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; 1. Editor's Introduction: Interpreting the Analytic Tradition; Notes; References; 2. Idealism and the Origins of Analytic Philosophy: Moore Interprets Kant and Bradley; Idealism in Britain and in Germany; Moore Interprets Idealism; Notes; References; 3. The Changing Role of Language in Analytic Philosophy; Notes; References; 4. Russell, Ryle, and Phenomenology: An Alternative Parsing of the Ways; Husserl and Early Analytic Philosophy; Phenomenology and Ordinary Language Philosophy; Conclusion; Notes; References.

Cover; A DARK HISTORY OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preliminary Matters; 1 Fissures in the History of Modern Philosophy; Prelude: On Anteriority; 2 Spinoza's Abysmal Rationalism; Intermezzo: On the Putative History of German Idealism; 3 Unruly Greek Schelling; Coda: Nietz sche as Crux; Bibliography; Index

Introduction -- The Pre-Qin Period (ca. 1046 – 256 BCE) -- The Rise of Confucianism, Mohism, Daoism, and Legalism -- The High Tide of Contention among the "Hundred Schools of Thought" -- The Summing-up Stage of Pre-Qin Philosophy -- From the Qin-Han to the Qing Dynasty -- The Supremacy of Confucianism and Criticisms of Confucian Theology -- Mysterious Learning and the Coexistence of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism -- A Tendency towards the Confluence of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism -- The Summing-up Stage of Ancient Chinese Philosophy -- Modern Period -- The Forerunners of Modern Chinese Philosophy -- The Stage of Evolutionism in the Philosophical Revolution -- The Philosophical Revolution Enters the Stage of Materialist Dialectics -- The Sinicization of Marxism and the Contributions Made by Professional Philosophers.

Feminist History of Philosophy -- Identity and Gender in Plato -- Schemes and Scenes of Reading the Timaeus -- Nietzsche's Feminization of Metaphysics and Its Significance for Theories of Gender Difference -- Psychologizing Cartesian Doubt Feminist Reading Strategies and the "Unthought" of Philosophy -- Feminist Rationality Debates Rereading Kant -- Form, Normativity and Gender in Aristotle A Feminist Perspective -- The Soul-Body Union and Sexual Difference from Descartes to Merleau-Ponty and Beauvoir -- The Psychology of Philosophy Interpreting Locke and Hume -- Hume as Man of Reason and Woman's Philosopher -- Descartes and Elisabeth A Philosophical Dialogue? -- Some Thoughts on the Place of Women in Early Modern Philosophy.

Evil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter of human cruelty, and Auschwitz as its extreme incarnation. Examining our understanding of evil from the Inquisition to contemporary terrorism, Susan Neiman explores who we have become in the three centuries that separate us from the early Enlightenment. In the process, she rewrites the history of modern thought and points philosophy back to the questions that originally animated it. Whether expressed in theological or secular terms, evil poses a problem about the world's intelligibility. It confronts philosophy with fundamental questions: Can there be meaning in a world where innocents suffer? Can belief in divine power or human progress survive a cataloging of evil? Is evil profound or banal? Neiman argues that these questions impelled modern philosophy. Traditional philosophers from Leibniz to Hegel sought to defend the Creator of a world containing evil. Inevitably, their efforts--combined with those of more literary figures like Pope, Voltaire, and the Marquis de Sade--eroded belief in God's benevolence, power, and relevance, until Nietzsche claimed He had been murdered. They also yielded the distinction between natural and moral evil that we now take for granted. Neiman turns to consider philosophy's response to the Holocaust as a final moral evil, concluding that two basic stances run through modern thought. One, from Rousseau to Arendt, insists that morality demands we make evil intelligible. The other, from Voltaire to Adorno, insists that morality demands that we don't. Beautifully written and thoroughly engaging, this book tells the history of modern philosophy as an attempt to come to terms with evil. It reintroduces philosophy to anyone interested in questions of life and death, good and evil, suffering and sense. Featuring a substantial new afterword by Neiman that raises provocative questions about Hannah Arendt's take on Adolf Eichmann and the rationale behind the Hiroshima bombing, this Princeton Classics edition introduces a new generation of readers to this eloquent and thought-provoking meditation on good and evil, life and death, and suffering and sense

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""Introduction""; ""1. The Anthropological Analogy and the Constitution of Historical Perspectivism""; ""2. The History of Philosophy as Past and as Process""; ""3. Philosophy and Genealogy: Ways of Writing History of Philosophy""; ""4. Understanding the Argument through Then-Current Public Debates or My Detective Method of History of Philosophy""; ""5. The Contingency of Philosophical Problems""; ""6. Philosophical Problems in the History of Philosophy: What Are They?""

This book is a collection of different studies in the history and development of powerful philosophical ideas, though it is not confined to a particular stage in this history. It highlights to the reader that looking at the history of insightful connections and theories increases the awareness of the importance of providing a historical context that develops a conversation: ideas require minds concerned with them, which renders ideas almost living things. The book studies and relates the ideas of philosophers including Duns Scotus, Leibniz, Hegel, Royce, Kierkegaard, Peirce, and James, among others. If this conversation is an intelligent process, since it requires serious and continuous thought, then these ideas progress along with the minds that conceptualise them.

Matt LaVine argues that there is more potential in bringing the history of early analytic philosophy and critical theories of race and gender together than has been traditionally recognized. In particular, he explores the changes associated with a shift from revolutionary aspects of early analytic philosophy.

The main stream of academic philosophy, in Anglophone countries and increasingly worldwide, is identified by the name 'analytic'. The study of its history, from the 19th century to the late 20th, has boomed in recent years. These specially commissioned essays by forty leading scholars constitute the most comprehensive book on the subject.