Philosophers And Philosophies

✍ Scribed by Frederick Copleston

• Publisher: Search Press; Barnes & Noble.
• Year: 1976
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 200
• Edition: 1st Edition, Printed In 1976
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

[6], 184 pages ; 23 cm

Copleston selects fourteen important philosophical topics, and discloses the pitfalls and possibilities of their key concepts

Includes bibliographical references

Philosophical knowledge -- The history of philosophy: relativism and recurrence -- Philosophy and religion in Judaism and Christianity -- Aquinas and the autonomy of religious language -- Man, transcendence and the absence of God -- Christianity without belief in God -- The logical empiricism of Nicholas of Autrecourt -- Spinoza as metaphysician -- Hegel and the rationalization of mysticism -- Foreground and background in Nietzsche -- Bergson on morality -- Jean-Paul Sartre -- The existentialist conception of man -- Ortega y Gasset and philosophical relativism

✦ Subjects

Philosophy, Philosophie, Einführung