(eBook PDF) The Great Conversation: A Historical Introduction to Philosophy 8th Edition – Digital Ebook – Instant Delivery Download
Product details:
- ISBN-10 : 0190670614
- ISBN-13 : 978-0190670610
- Author: Norman Melchert , David R. Morrow
Tracing the exchange of ideas among history’s key philosophers, The Great Conversation: A Historical Introduction to Philosophy, Eighth Edition, provides a generous selection of excerpts from major philosophical works and makes them more easily understandable to students with lucid and
engaging explanations. Extensive cross-referencing shows students how philosophers respond appreciatively or critically to the thoughts of other philosophers.
Table contents:
1. Before Philosophy: Myth in Hesiod and Homer
2. Philosophy before Socrates
* 3. Appearance and Reality in Ancient India
4. The Sophists: Rhetoric and Relativism in AthensRelativism
* 5. Reason and Relativism in China
6. Socrates: To Know Oneself
7. The Trial and Death of Socrates
8. Plato: Knowing the Real and the Good
9. Aristotle: The Reality of the World
* 10.Confucius, Mencius, and Xunzi: Virtue in Ancient China
11. Epicureans, Stoics, and Skeptics: Happiness for the Many
12. Jews and Christians: Sin, Salvation, and Love
13. Augustine: God and the Soul
* 14. Philosophy in the Islamic World: The Great Conversation Spreads Out
15. Anselm and Aquinas: Existence and Essence
16. From Medieval to Modern Europe in God and the World
17. René Descartes: Doubting Our Way to Certainty
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