The great conversation Vol. II Descartes through derrida and quine

Ideal for courses in modern philosophy or modern and contemporary philosophy,The Great Conversation: A Historical Introduction to Philosophy, Volume II: Descartes through Derrida and Quine covers the same material as the second half(chapters 12-25) of author Norman Melchert's longer volume, The Great Conversation. Tracing the exchange of ideas among history's key philosophers, the book demonstrates that while constructing an argument or making a claim, one philosopher almost always has others in mind. It addresses the fundamental questions of human life: Who are we? What can we know? How should we live? and What sort of reality do we inhabit? INDICE: *=New to this edition; A Word to Instructors: ; A Word to Students: ; Acknowledgments: ; 13. René Descartes: Doubting Our Way to Certainty; The Method; Meditations: Commentary and Questions; Meditations on First Philosophy: ; Meditation I; Meditation II; Meditation III; Meditation IV; Meditation V; Meditation VI; What Has Descartes Done?; A New Ideal for Knowledge: ; A NewVision of Reality: ; Problems: ; The Preeminence of Epistemology: ; 14. Hobbes, Locke, and Berkeley: Materialism and the Beginnings of Empiricism; Thomas Hobbes: Catching Persons in the Net of the New Science; Method: ; Minds and Motives: ; Sketch: Francis Bacon; The Natural Foundation of Moral Rules: ; John Locke: Looking to Experience; Origin of Ideas: ; Idea of Substance: ; Idea of the Soul: ; Idea of Personal Identity: ; Language and Essence: ; The Extent of Knowledge: ; Of Representative Government: ; Of Toleration: ; George Berkeley:Ideas into Things; Abstract Ideas: ; Ideas and Things: ; God: ; 15. David Hume: Unmasking the Pretensions of Reason; How Newton Did It; To Be the Newton ofHuman Nature; The Theory of Ideas; The Association of Ideas; Causation: The Very Idea; The Disappearing Self; Sketch: The Buddha; Rescuing Human Freedom; Is It Reasonable to Believe in God?; Understanding Morality; Reason Is Not a Motivator: ; The Origins of Moral Judgment: ; Is Hume a Skeptic?; 16. Immanuel Kant: Rehabilitating Reason (within Strict Limits); Critique; Judgments; Geometry, Mathematics, Space, and Time; Common Sense, Science, and the A Priori Categories; Sketch: Baruch Spinoza; Phenomena and Noumena; Sketch: Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz; Reasoning and the Ideas of Metaphysics: God, World, and Soul; The Soul: ; The World and the Free Will: ; God: ; The Ontological Argument: ; Reason and Morality; The Good Will: ; The Moral Law: ; Sketch: Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Autonomy: ; Freedom: ; 17. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Taking History Seriously; Historical and Intellectual Context; The French Revolution: ; The Romantics: ; Epistemology Internalized; Sketch: Arthur Schopenhauer; Self and Others; Stoic and Skeptical Consciousness; Hegel's Analysis of Christianity;Reason and Reality: The Theory of Idealism; Spirit Made Objective: The SocialCharacter of Ethics; History and Freedom; 18. Kierkegaard and Marx: Two Ways to 'Correct' Hegel; Kierkegaard: On Individual Existence; The Aesthetic: ; TheEthical: ; The Religious: ; The Individual: ; Marx: Beyond Alienation and Exploitation; Alienation, Exploitation, and Private Property: ; Communism: ; 19. The Utilitarians: Moral Rules and the Happiness of All (Including Women); The Classic Utilitarians; The Rights of Women; 20. Friedrich Nietzsche: The Value of Existence; Pessimism and Tragedy; Good-bye Real World; The Death of God; Revaluation of Values; Master Morality/Slave Morality: ; * Profile: Iris Murdoch; Our Morality: ; The Overman; Affirming Eternal Recurrence; 21. The Pragmatists: Thought and Action; Charles Sande

• ISBN: 978-0-19-539763-5
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 496
• Fecha Publicación: 23/12/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés