Basic Teachings of the Great PhilosophersA complete summary of the views of the most important philosophers since the beginning of Western civilization. Each major field of philosophic inquiry is treated in a separate chapter, so that each chapter can be read as a complete unit, without reference to the others. Includes Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Dewey, Sartre, and many others. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
sance | 27 |
Spinozas Theory of the Universe | 33 |
Leibnitz Theory of the Universe | 39 |
The Positions of John Stuart Mill and Herbert | 47 |
MANS PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE | 53 |
WHAT IS GOOD AND WHAT IS EVIL? | 80 |
THE NATURE OF GOD | 100 |
THE SOUL AND IMMORTALITY | 153 |
MAN AND THE STATE | 175 |
MAN AND EDUCATION | 207 |
MIND AND MATTER | 226 |
IDEAS AND THINKING | 246 |
SOME RECENT APPROACHES TO PHILOSOPHY | 263 |
CONCLUSION | 272 |
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