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History of Philosophy
 

 






 

 
 
  CONTENTS
 

 
  INTRODUCTION

PHYLOSOPHY
   
   
 
Branches of philosophy
   
  Metaphysics
  Epistemology
  Ethics
  Political philosophy
  Aesthetics
  Logic
  Philosophy of mind
  Philosophy of Religion
  Philosophy of History
  Philosophy of Science
  Philosophy of language
  Analytic philosophy
  Philosophy of education
  Philosophy of law
   
   
   
 
Main Theories

 
   
  Realism
  Nominalism
  Rationalism
  Empiricism
  Skepticism
  Idealism
  Positivism
  Pragmatism
  Phenomenology
  Existentialism
   
   
  ATOMISM
  SOPHIST
  STOICISM
  EPICUREANISM
  MYSTICISM
  HUMANISM
  THE ENLIGHTENMENT
  UTILITARIANISM
  EVOLUTIONISM
  PSYCHOANALYSIS
 
   
  Materialism
  Atheism
   
   
   
 
History of Western philosophy
 

 

 
 
  The nature of Western philosophy
   
  The Western tradition. (Part I)
  The Western tradition. (Part II)
  General considerations. Ways of ordering the history
Plutarch "Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans"
 
 
  Ancient philosophy (c. 600 B.C.–c. A.D. 500)
 
 
  Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy
   
   
  The pre-Socratic philosophers.
Cosmology and the metaphysics of matter
Pluralistic cosmologies
Epistemology of appearance
Metaphysics of number
Anthropology and relativism
   
   
  The seminal thinkers of Greek philosophy . Socrates
  The seminal thinkers of Greek philosophy. Plato
  The seminal thinkers of Greek philosophy. Aristotle
   
Plato "Ion", "Phaedo", "Cratylus", "Meno", "Philebus"
  Aristotle "The Categories", "Poetics"
   
   
  Hellenistic and Roman philosophy
Stoicism, Epicureanism, Skepticism
Neo-Pythagoreanism and Neoplatonism
 
 
 
 
  Medieval philosophy (c. A.D. 500–c. 1350)
 
 
  Medieval philosophy
The early Middle Ages
   
  Saint Augustine "Confessions"
   
  The Greek Fathers of the Church and Erigena
   
  Abelard "The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise"
   
  The transition to Scholasticism
Arabic thought
Jewish thought
   
  The age of the Schoolmen
  The late Middle Ages
 

 

 
 
  Renaissance (c. 1350–c. 1600)
 
 
  Renaissance philosophy
Political philosophy
   
  Machiavelli Niccolo "The Prince"
   
   
  Humanism
   
  More Thomas "Utopia"
  Montaigne Michel "The Essays"I, "The Essays"II, "The Essays"III
  Spinoza Benedictus "Ethica"
 
   
  Philosophy of nature
 
 
 
 
  Early modern philosophy (c. 1600 – c. 1800)
 
 
  Modern philosophy. The rise of empiricism and rationalism
   
  Bacon Francis "New Atlantis"
  Hobbes Thomas "Leviathan"
  Descartes Rene "A Discourse OF A METHOD For the well guiding of REASON, And the Discovery of Truth In the SCIENCES".
"
SELECTIONS FROM THE PRINCIPLES OF PHILOSOPHY"
   
   
  Literary forms and sociological conditions
   
  Hume David "A TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE"
"
AN ENQUIRY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING"
"The Natural History of Religion"
   
  The Enlightenment. Classical British empiricism
   
  Berkeley George "An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision"
"
THREE DIALOGUES BETWEEN HYLAS AND PHILONOUS,
IN OPPOSITION TO SCEPTICS AND ATHEISTS
"
   
  Nonepistemological movements. Materialism and scientific discovery
   
  Voltaire "Candide", "Age of Louis XIV"
   
  Social and political philosophy
   
  Kant Immanuel "Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals",
"
THE METAPHYSICAL ELEMENTS OF ETHICS",
"
FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSIC OF MORALS",
"
THE CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON",
"THE CRITIQUE OF PRACTICAL REASON"
 

 

 

 

  Nineteenth century philosophy
 
 
  The 19th century
   
  Hegel G. W. F. "The Philosophy of History"
   
  Positivism and social theory
   
  Independent and irrationalist movements
   
  Schopenhauer Arthur "Essays"
Nietzsche Friedrich "Thus Spake Zarathustra",
"The Antichrist",
"
Beyond Good and Evil"
 

 

 

 

  Contemporary philosophy (c. 1900 – present)
 

 

  Contemporary philosophy. Marxist thought
   
  Bergson Henri "Creative Evolution"
   
  Analytic philosophy
Logical atomism, logical positivism
Naturalized epistemology
   
  Russell Bertrand "The Problems of Philosophy"
Wittgenstein Ludwig "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus"
   
  Continental philosophy
The phenomenology
The existentialism
   
   
   
    Dictionary of Philosophers:  
       
   
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