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Tables of Contents for A Short History of Philosophy
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Biographical Chronology
xiii
The Search for World Order: Ancient Philosophy
1
78
The ``Axial Period'' and the Origins of Philosophy
1
6
The ``Miracle'' of Greece
7
4
Philosophy, Myth, Religion, and Science
11
6
Meaning and Creation: Cosmogony and the Origins of Philosophy
17
5
Vedas and Vedanta: Early Philosophy in India
22
3
The First (Greek) Philosopher
25
4
The Pre-Socratic Philosophers (I): The Stuff of the World
29
3
The Pre-Socratic Philosophers (II): The Underlying Order
32
4
The Pre-Socratic Philosophers (III): The Pluralists
36
3
Enter the Sophists
39
4
Socrates
43
6
Plato: Metaphysician or Sublime Humorist?
49
7
The Philosopher's Philosopher: Aristotle
56
11
A Footnote to Plato (and Aristotle)
67
1
Tough Times: Stoicism, Skepticism, and Epicureanism
68
6
Mysticism and Logic in Ancient India: Nagarjuna and Nyaya
74
5
God and the Philosophers: Religious and Medieval Philosphy
79
96
Religion and Spirituality: Three Philosophical Themes
81
3
The Wisdom of the East (I): Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism
84
7
The Wisdom of the East (II): Confucius and Confucianism
91
5
The Wisdom of the East (III): Lao-tzu, Chuang-tzu, and Taoism
96
3
Deep in the Heart of Persia: Zoroastrianism
99
1
From Athens to Jerusalem: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
100
5
The Hebrew People and the Origins of Judaism
105
6
Greek Jew: Philo of Alexandria
111
3
The Birth of Christianity
114
4
The Opening of Christianity: St. Paul
118
3
Neoplatonism and Christianity
121
1
St. Augustine and the Inner Life of Spirit
122
4
The First Great Split Within Christianity
126
3
The Rise of Islam
129
4
Mysticism
133
1
Persia and the Peripatetic Tradition
134
5
Diaspora, Dialectic, and Mysticism in Judaism
139
3
Thinking God: Anselm, Abelard, Aquinas, and Scholasticism
142
5
Late Scholasticism: Duns Scotus and William of Ockham
147
2
In Search of Essences: The Alchemists
149
3
Philosophical Syntheses Outside the West
152
2
The Reformation: Luther and His Progeny
154
6
The Counter-Reformation, Erasmus, and More
160
3
After Aristotle: Bacon, Hobbes, Machiavelli, and the Renaissance
163
4
Before the ``Discovery'': Africa and the Americas
167
8
Between Science and Religion: Modern Philosophy and the Enlightenment
175
68
Science, Religion, and the Meaning of Modernism
175
3
Montaigne: The First Modern Philosopher?
178
2
Descartes and the New Science
180
6
Spinoza, Leibniz, Pascal, and Newton
186
6
The Enlightenment, Colonialism, and the Eclipse of the Orient
192
2
Locke, Hume, and Empiricism
194
5
Adam Smith, the Moral Sentiments, and the Protestant Ethic
199
3
Voltaire, Rousseau, and Revolution
202
3
Immanuel Kant: Saving Science
205
5
Kant's Moral Philosophy and the Third Critique
210
4
The Discovery of History: Hegel
214
7
Philosophy and Poetry: Rationalism and Romanticism
221
2
Romantic West Meets East: Schopenhauer
223
3
After Hegel: Kierkegaard, Feuerbach, and Marx
226
4
Mill, Darwin, and Nietzsche: Consumerism, Energy, and Evolution
230
5
Early Philosophy in America
235
8
From Modernism to Postmodernism: The Twentieth Century
243
64
The Rejection of Idealism: A Century of Horrors
243
2
Frege, Russell, and Husserl: Arithmetic, Atomism Phenomenology
245
8
Zarathustra in the Trenches: The Limits of Rationality
253
6
The American Experience in Philosophy: Pragmatism
259
5
Changing Reality: Philosophies of Process
264
2
Unamuno, Croce, and Heidegger: The Tragic Sense of Life
266
8
Hitler, the Holocaust, Positivism, and Existentialism
274
5
No Exit: The Existentialism of Camus, Sartre, and Beauvior
279
3
From Ideal to Ordinary Language: From Cambridge to Oxford
282
4
Women and Gender: The Feminization of Philosophy
286
6
The Return of the Oppressed: Africa, Asia, and the Americas
292
7
From Postmodernism to the New Age
299
5
World Philosophy: Promise or Pretense
304
3
Notes
307
8
Selected Bibliography
315
10
Index
325