THE GREAT PHILOSOPHERS

Περιγραφή

  Bryan Magee discusses the greatest Western philosophers with fifteen leading contemporary writers and thinkers. The book begins with the death of Socrates in 399 BC and the writings of Plato, and brings the story up to date with such recent figures as Bertrand Russell and Wittgenstein.

CONTENTS:

PREFACE 8 Bryan Magee, Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the History of Ideas, King's College, University of London

PLATO 12 Myles Burnyeat, Professor of Ancient Philosophy, University of Cambridge

ARISTOTLE 32 Martha Nussbaum, Professor of Philosophy and Classics, Brown University

MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY 56 Anthony Kenny, Master of Balliol College, University of Oxford

DESCARTES 76 Bernard Williams, Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley

SPINOZA AND LEIBNIZ 96 Anthony Quinton, Chairman of the British Library

LOCKE AND BERKELEY 118 Michael Ayers, Fellow of Wadham College, University of Oxford

HUME 144 John Passmore, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy,

Australian National University

KANT 168 Geoffrey Warnock, Principal of Hertford College, University of Oxford

HEGEL AND MARX 188 Peter Singer, Professor of Philosophy, Monash University

SCHOPENHAUER 2ro Frederick Copleston, Emeritus Professor of the History of Philosophy, University of London

HUSSERL, HEIDEGGER AND MODERN EXISTENTIALISM 252 Hubert Dreyfus, Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley

THE AMERICAN PRAGMATISTS 278 Sidney Morgenbesser, Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University

FREGE, RUSSELL AND MODERN LOGIC 298 A. J. Ayer, formerly Professor of Logic, University of Oxford