"This ed. is also published in two separate vols."

Includes bibliographical references and index

Before philosophy : myth in Hesiod and Homer -- Philosophy before Socrates -- The Sophists : rhetoric and relativism in Athens -- Socrates : to know oneself -- The trial and death of Socrates -- Plato : knowing the real and the good -- Aristotle : the reality of the world -- Epicureans, stoics, and skeptics : happiness for the many -- The Christians : sin, salvation, and love -- Augustine : God and the soul -- Anselm and Aquinas : existence and essence in God and the world -- Moving from medieval to modern -- René Descartes : doubting our way to certainty -- Hobbes, Locke, and Berkeley : materialism and the beginnings of empiricism -- David Hume : unmasking the pretensions of reason -- Immanuel Kant : rehabilitating reason (within strict limits) -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel : taking history seriously -- Kierkegaard and Marx : two ways to "correct" Hegel -- The Utilitarians : moral rules and the happiness of all including women) -- Friedrich Nietzsche : the value of existence -- The Pragmatists : thought and action -- Analysis : logical atomism and the logical positivists -- Ordinary languages : "This is simply what I do" -- Martin Heidegger : the meaning of being -- Postmodernism and physical realism : Derrida, Rorty, Quine, and Dennett

Traces the exchange of ideas between history's key philosophers. Hesiod - Homer - Socrates - Sophists - Plato - Aristotle - Epicureans - Stoics - Skeptics - Christians - Anselm - Aquinas - Descartes - Hobbes - Locke - Berkeley - Hume - Kant - Hegel - Kierkegaard - Marx - Utilitarians - Nietzsche - Pragmatists - Heidegger - Postmodernism

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