A History of Philosophy

CHAPTER 1: THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
Why Study the History of Philosophy?
Why Study Coplestonâs A History of Philosophy?
Coplestonâs A History of Philosophy as Ignatian Humanism
How Should One Organize the History of Philosophy?
Postscript: A Short Biography of Frederick Charles Copleston
Bibliography

CHAPTER 2: GREECE AND ROME
Introduction
The Birth of Greek Philosophy
The Pioneers: The Philosophical Cosmologists of Ionia
The Socratic Period
Plato
Platoâs Doctrine of the Forms
Aristotleâs Metaphysics and Ethics
Post-Aristotelian Philosophy
Conclusion
Bibliography

CHAPTER 3: MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY
Introduction
Early Christian Thought in the Patristic Period
St Augustine and the City of God
The Pseudo-Dionysius
Boethius and the Consolation of Philosophy
The Carolingian Renaissance
John Scottus Eriugena
From the Tenth to the Twelfth Centuries
The Thirteenth Century Syntheses of Reason and Revelation
St Thomas Aquinas and the Great Synthesis of Faith and Reason
Scotus and the Franciscans
Conclusion
Bibliography

CHAPTER 4: LATE MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE PHILOSOPHY
Introduction
William of Ockham and the end of the Great Synthesis of Faith and Reason
Marsilius of Padua on the Church and the State
Meister Eckhart and the Speculative Mysticism of the Fourteenth Century
The Philosophy of the Renaissance
Su¡rez and the Scholasticism of the Renaissance
Conclusion
Bibliography

CHAPTER 5: THE RATIONALISTS: DESCARTES TO LEIBNIZ
Introduction
Descartes on the Mind and the Body
Pascal, Cartesianism and Malebranche
Spinoza and the Philosophy of God or Nature
Leibniz and the Substance of Reality
Conclusion
Bibliography

CHAPTER 6: BRITISH PHILOSOPHY: HOBBES TO HUME
Introduction
Thomas Hobbes on Materialism, Mechanism and Power
John Locke and the Empirical Foundations of British Philosophy
Berkeley and the Lockean Legacy
David Hume and the Experience of Scepticism
Conclusion
Bibliography

CHAPTER 7: THE ENLIGHTENMENT: VOLTAIRE TO KANT
Introduction
Rousseau and the Origins of Society
The German Enlightenment and the Rise of the Philosophy of History
Kant and the Modern Vision of Reason
Kant on Morality and Religion
Aesthetics, Teleology and the Opus Postumum
Conclusion
Bibliography

CHAPTER 8: EIGHTEENTH- AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY GERMAN PHILOSOPHY: FICHTE TO NIETZSCHE
Introduction
Fichte and the Fundamental Principles of Philosophy
Schelling and the Idea of Nature, Schleiermacher and the Feeling of Dependence
Hegel and the Adventure of Spirit
Schopenhauerâs Reaction Against the Transformations of Metaphysical Idealism
Feuerbachâs Turn to Anthropology
Marx and Engels and the Critique of Capitalism
Kierkegaard and the Search for Authenticity
Nietzsche and the Spiritual Crisis of Modernity
Conclusion: Retrospect and Prospect
Bibliography

CHAPTER 9: UTILITARIANISM AND EARLY ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY
Introduction
The Utilitarianism of Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill
The Legacy of British Empiricism and the Philosophy of Herbert Spencer
The Idealist Movement in Great Britain
Idealism in America
The Pragmatist Movement
The Revolt Against Idealism
Bertrand Russell and the Pursuit of a Logical and Scientific Philosophy
Conclusion
Bibliography

CHAPTER 10: NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURY FRENCH PHILOSOPHY
Introduction
From the Revolution to Auguste Comte
From Auguste Comte to Henri Bergson
From Bergson to Sartre
Phenomenology and Structuralism
Conclusion
Bibliography

CHAPTER 11: RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHY
Introduction
Historical and philosophical themes
Peter Chaadaev: Philosophy and the Problem of Russia
Slavophile and Westernizing Developments
Literature, Religion and Philosophy: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Solovyov
Russian Marxism: Plekhanov, Lenin and the Soviet Union
Russian Philosophers in Exile and the Westernizer-Slavophile Legacy
Conclusion
Bibliography

CHAPTER 12: LOGICAL POSITIVISM AND EXISTENTIALISM
Introduction
Contemporary British Philosophy
Logical Positivism and Verification
Existentialism
Conclusion
Bibliography

CHAPTER 13: CONCLUSIONS, OMISSIONS AND PROSPECTS
Introduction
Habermas and the Unfinished Project of Modernity
MacIntyre on Virtue, Character and Community
Charles Taylor on the Self and Transcendence
Towards a Philosophy of the Future
Bibliography

Index