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Autore |
Kenny Anthony <1931-> |
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A new history of Western philosophy [[electronic resource] ] : in four parts / / Anthony Kenny |
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Oxford [England] ; ; New York, : Clarendon Press, 2010 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-164291-6 |
1-283-92383-1 |
0-19-164290-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (1077 p.) |
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Collana |
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New History of Western Philosophy |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Part 1 - Beginnings: from Pythagoras to Plato -- Schools of thought: from Aristotle to Augustine -- How to argue: logic -- Knowledge and its limits: epistemology -- How things happen: physics -- What there is: metaphysics -- Soul and mind -- How to live: ethics -- God. |
Part 2 - Philosophy and faith: Augustine to Maimonides -- The schoolmen: from the twelfth century to the Renaissance -- Logic and language -- Knowledge -- Physics -- Metaphysics -- Mind and soul -- Ethics -- God. |
Part 3 - Sixteenth-century philosophy -- Descartes to Berkeley -- Hume to Hegel -- Knowledge -- Physics -- Metaphysics -- Mind and soul -- Ethics -- Political philosophy -- God. |
Part 4 - Bentham to Nietzsche -- Pierce to Strawson -- Freud to Derrida -- Logic -- Language -- Epistemology -- Metaphysics -- Philosophy of mind -- Ethics -- Aesthetics -- Political philosophy -- God. |
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This book is no less than a guide to the whole of Western philosophy -- the ideas that have undergirded our civilization for two-and-a-half thousand years. Anthony Kenny tells the story of philosophy from ancient Greece through the Middle Ages and the Enlightenment into the modern world. He introduces us to the great thinkers and their ideas, starting with Plato, Aristotle, and the other founders of Western thought. In the second part of the book he takes us through a thousand |
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