Our Philosophical Heritage

✍ Scribed by Andrew B. Schoedinger

• Publisher: Kendall Hunt Publishing
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 425
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

The philosophical act, Josef Pieper;
What is philosophy?;
The value of philosophy; Bertrand Russell
-- Ethics:
Problems of ethics;
Self-actualization, Aristotle;
Hedonism, Epicurus;
Categorical imperative, Immanuel Kant;
Classical utilitarianism, Jeremy Bentham
-- Political theory:
Problems of political theory;
Authoritarianism, Thomas Hobbes,
Liberalism, John Locke,
Conservatism, Edmund Burke,
Communism, Karl Marx
-- Philosophy of religion:
Problems of the philosophy of religion;
The ontological argument, St. Anselm;
The cosmological argument, St. Thomas Aquinas;
The teleological argument, William Paley;
The problem of evil, David Hume
-- Epistemology:
Problems of epistemology;
Rationalism, Rene Descartes;
Empiricism, John Locke;
Idealism, George Berkeley;
Adverbial theory, Roderick Chisholm
-- Metaphysics:
Problems of metaphysics;
Realism, Plato;
Conceptualism, John Locke;
Nominalism, George Berkeley;
Ordinary language analysis, Ludwig Wittgenstein