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Philosophy: A Historical Survey with Essential Readings

ISBN10: 1264600135 | ISBN13: 9781264600137

Philosophy: A Historical Survey with Essential Readings
ISBN10: 1264600135
ISBN13: 9781264600137
By Samuel Enoch Stumpf and James Fieser

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In a provocative and engaging style, Philosophy: A Historical Survey with Essential Readings consists of two main parts: the chapters, which study the primary contributions of Western civilization's most influential philosophers, and the anthology of chronologically-organized classic readings from Western philosophy.  The first half of this book presents a sustained narrative of the great philosophers of Western civilization, from ancient Greece until today.  In the second half, the authors offer a snapshot of the most famous discussions by many of the philosophers studied in the first half.  These readings parallel the order presented in the first half of the book. Philosophy: A Historical Survey with Essential Readings also can be customized (as a print or ebook) to include selections from Discourses, McGraw Hill’s collection of more than 450 classical and contemporary philosophy readings.


CHAPTER 1: Socrates’s Predecessors
CHAPTER 2: The Sophists and Socrates
CHAPTER 3: Plato
CHAPTER 4: Aristotle
CHAPTER 5: Classical Philosophy after Aristotle
CHAPTER 6: Augustine
CHAPTER 7: Philosophy in the Early Middle Ages
CHAPTER 8: Aquinas and His Late Medieval Successors
CHAPTER 9: Philosophy during the Renaissance
CHAPTER 10: Rationalism on the Continent
CHAPTER 11: Empiricism in Britain
CHAPTER 12: Enlightenment Philosophy
CHAPTER 13: Kant
CHAPTER 14: German Idealism
CHAPTER 15: Utilitarianism and Positivism
CHAPTER 16: Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche
CHAPTER 17: Pragmatism and Process Philosophy
CHAPTER 18: Analytic Philosophy
CHAPTER 19: Phenomenology and Existentialism
CHAPTER 20: Recent Philosophy

About the Author

Samuel Enoch Stumpf

Samuel Enoch Stumpf was Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Emeritus Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University prior to his death in 1998, at the age of eighty. He earned a B.S. in Business and Finance from the University of California at Los Angeles, a B.D. in Theology from Andover Newton Theological School, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Chicago. He joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 1948 and served as Chair of the Philosophy Department from 1952 to 1967. After a five-year term as President of Cornell College, Professor Stumpf returned to Vanderbilt, where he remained until his retirement in 1984. Professor Stumpf’s publications include Democratic Manifesto (1954), Morality and the Law (1966), and four McGraw-Hill textbooks: Socrates to Sartre: A History of Philosophy (1966; 6th ed., posthumous, 1999); Philosophical Readings: Selected Problems (1971; 4th ed., 1994); Philosophy: History and Problems (1971; 5th ed., 1994); and Elements of Philosophy: An Introduction (1979; 3rd ed., 1993).

James Fieser

James Fieser is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee at Martin. He received his B.A. from Berea College, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from Purdue University. He is author, co-author or editor of ten textbooks, including Philosophy: A Historical Survey with Essential Readings (9/e 2014), Scriptures of the World's Religions (5/e 2014), Ethics: Discovering Right and Wrong (7/e 2012), Business Ethics and the Bottom Line (2012), A Historical Introduction to Philosophy (2003), and Moral Philosophy through the Ages (2001). He has edited and annotated the ten-volume Early Responses to Hume (2/e 2005) and the five-volume Scottish Common Sense Philosophy (2000). He is founder and general editor of the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy web site (www.iep.utm.edu). His personal website can be accessed at www.utm.edu/staff/jfieser.

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