Human Thought and Action: Readings in Western Intellectual History - Couverture rigide

Baird, Forrest E.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0819187623 ISBN 13 : 9780819187628

Editeur : University Press of America, 1992

Synopsis

A book of readings in Western intellectual history focusing on the role of reason in human action. Contents:^ Plato: Myth of the Cave; Plato: ^IThe Four Virtues; Aristotle: Knowledge of Causes; Aristotle: The Types of Governments; Epicurus: Epicureanism; Epictetus: Stoicism; St. Augustine: The Platonist; St. Augustine: The Nature of Sources of Evil; St. Thomas Aquinas: The Four Laws; St. Thomas Aquinas: The Nature of the Soul; Pico: The Oration on the Dignity of Man; John Calvin: Reason, Sin and Illumination; St. Teresa of Avila: Interior Castle; Rene Descartes: PensÈs ; Thomas Hobbes: The State of Nature; John Locke: The State of Nature; Alexander Pope: Essay on Man; David Hume: Impressions and Ideas; Voltaire: Candide; Immanuel Kant: Space and Time; Immanuel Kant: The Good Will; Edmund Burke: Revolution in France; James Madison: The Federal Government; Soren Kierkegaard: Subjective Truth; Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Grand Inquisitor; Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Communist Manifesto; Friedrich Nietzsche: The Will to Power; William James: Pragmatism; William James: Philosophical Temperaments; Sigmund Freud: The Ego and the Id; Ludwig Wittgenstein: Later Theory; Jean-Paul Sartre: Existentialism; Carol Gilligan: Women's Place in Man's World; Appendix: Programmed Text on Epistemology.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Forrest E. Baird is Professor of Philosophy at Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of America
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0819187623
• ISBN 13: 9780819187628
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 322
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