This illustrated edition of Sir Anthony Kenny''s acclaimed
survey of Western philosophy offers the most concise and compelling
story of the complete development of philosophy available.
Spanning 2,500 years of thought, An Illustrated Brief History of
Western Philosophy provides essential coverage of the most
influential philosophers of the Western world, among them Socrates,
Plato, Aristotle, Jesus, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli,
Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Berkeley, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel,
Marx, Mill, Nietzsche, Darwin, Freud, Frege, Russell, and
Wittgenstein.
Replete with over 60 illustrations - ranging from Dufresnoy''s The
Death of Socrates, through to the title page of Thomas More''s
Utopia, portraits of Hobbes and Rousseau, photographs of Charles
Darwin and Bertrand Russell, Freud''s own sketch of the Ego and the
Id, and Wittgenstein''s Austrian military identity card - this lucid
and masterful work is ideal for anyone with an interest in Western
thought.
關於作者:
Sir Anthony Kenny was formerly Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Oxford
University, Master of Balliol College, Oxford and Warden of Rhodes
House, Oxford. He was also President of the British Academy,
Chairman of the Board of the British Library and a Trustee of
Wittgenstein’s copyrights. He is the author or editor of more than
40 books, including Wittgenstein Revised Edition, 2006, Frege: An
Introduction to the Founder of Modern Analytic Philosophy 2000
and The Legacy of Wittgenstein 1984, all published by
Blackwell.
目錄:
Preface.
List Of Illustrations.
Acknowledgements.
1. Philosophy in its Infancy.
2. The Athens of Socrates.
3. The Philosophy of Plato.
4. The System of Aristotle.
5. Greek Philosophy after Aristotle.
6. Early Christian Philosophy.
7. Early Medieval Philosophy.
8. Philosophy in the Thirteenth Century.
9. Oxford Philosophers.
10. Renaissance Philosophy.
11. The Age of Descartes.
12. English Philosophy in the Seventeenth-Century.
13. Continental Philosophy in the Age of Louis XIV.
14. British Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century.
15. The Enlightenment.
16. The Critical Philosophy of Kant.
17. German Idealism and Materialism.
18. The Utilitarians.
19. Three Nineteenth-Century Philosophers.
20. Three Modern Masters.
21. Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics.
22. The Philosophy of Wittgenstein.
Afterword.
Suggestions for Further Reading.
Index.