Living Philosophy: A Historical Introduction to Philosophical Ideas 2nd Edition (eBook PDF) – Digital Ebook – Instant Delivery Download
Product details:
- ISBN-10 : 0190628707
- ISBN-13 : 978-0190628703
- Author: Lewis Vaughn
Living Philosophy, Second Edition, is a historically organized, introductory hybrid text/reader that guides students through the story of philosophical thought from the Pre-Socratics to the present, providing cultural and intellectual background and explaining why key issues and arguments remain important and relevant today. Women philosophers are well represented throughout the text. They include Mary Wollstonecraft, Simone de Beauvoir, H?l?ne Cixous, Martha Nussbaum, Alison Jaggar, Annette Baier, Virginia Held, and many more. Non-Western philosophers are also included: Avicenna, Averro?s, Maimonides, Buddha, Lao-Tzu, and Confucius.
Table contents:
Chapter 1: Why Philosophy
Chapter 2: The Pre-Socratics and the Sophists
Chapter 3: Socrates: An Examined Life
Chapter 4: Plato: The Really Real
Chapter 5: Aristotle: Reason and Nature
Chapter 6 Eastern Thought
Chapter 7: The Hellenistic Era
Chapter 8: The Medieval Period
Chapter 9: Descartes: Doubt and Certainty
Chapter 10: From Hobbes to Hume
Chapter 11: Kant’s Revolution
Chapter 12: John Stuart Mill and Utilitarianism
Chapter 13: Hegel and Marx
Chapter 14: Existentialism
Chapter 15: The Pragmatists: Peirce and James
Chapter 16: Feminist Philosophers
Chapter 17: The Contemporary Period
Chapter 18: The Meaning of Life
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