Ideas of the Great Philosophers

by William S. Sahakian

Other authorsMabel Lewis Sahakian (Author)
Paperback, 1968

Status

Available

Call number

108

Collection

Publication

Barnes & Noble (1968), Paperback, 224 pages

Description

Epistemology and logic. Criteria of truth ; Material fallacies of reasoning ; The problem of truth -- Ethics and philosophies of life. The philosophy of Socrates ; The self-realization philosophy of Aristotle ; The hedonistic philosophy of Epicurus ; The stoic philosophy of Epictetus ; The utilitarian philosophy of Jeremy Bentham ; The utilitarianism of John Stuart Mill ; The intuitionism of Immanuel Kant ; The pessimistic philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer ; The naturalistic philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche ; Royce's philosophy of loyalty ; The ethical realism of George Edward Moore -- Social, political, and legal philosophy. Plato's republic ; The political philosophy of Aristotle ; The legal philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas ; Machiavelli's political philosophy ; The political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes ; The democratic philosophy of Jean Jacques Rousseau ; Hegel's philosophy of law ; The communism of Karl Marx -- Philosophy of religion. Conceptions of God ; The problem of God's existence ; Agnosticism and atheism ; The soul ; The mind-body problem ; Immortality ; The problem of evil -- Metaphysics. Pre-Cartesian metaphysics ; Modern post-Cartesian metaphysics -- Types of philosophy. Dialectical materialism ; Pragmatism and instrumentalism ; Classical positivism ; Logical positivism and the analytic school ; Neo-scholasticism and neo-thomism ; Neorealism and critical realism ; Personalism ; Phenomenology and phenomenalism ; Existentialism and neo-orthodoxy.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member masyukun
The first section of the book is good, but as the book goes on, ideas are less presented to the reader as they are thrown at him. If this book were written with consistent pacing, it would be twice as long.

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Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

1966

Physical description

224 p.; 7.9 inches

ISBN

0064632180 / 9780064632188

Local notes

College Outline Series
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