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A New History of Western Philosophy (Hardcover, Revised)
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A New History of Western Philosophy (Hardcover, Revised)
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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 years of medieval philosophy, and
shows us the rich intellectual legacy of Christian thinkers like
Augustine, Aquinas, and Ockham. Moving into the early modern
period, we explore the great works of Descartes, Hobbes, Locke,
Leibniz, Spinoza, Hume, and Kant, which remain essential reading
today. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Hegel, Mill,
Nietzsche, Freud, and Wittgenstein again transformed the way we see
the world. Running though the book are certain themes which have
been constant concerns of philosophy since its early beginnings:
the fundamental questions of what exists and how we can know about
it; the nature of humanity, the mind, truth, and meaning; the place
of God in the universe; how we should live and how society should
be ordered. Anthony Kenny traces the development of these themes
through the centuries: we see how the questions asked and answers
offered by the great philosophers of the past remain vividly alive
today. Anyone interested in ideas and their history will find this
a fascinating and stimulating read
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