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Author:   Harrison Kleiner ,  Charles Huenemann
Publisher:   Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.
Imprint:   Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.
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9781465203373

ISBN 10:   1465203370
Pages:   188
Publication Date:   30 August 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Section I. The Ancient World I.1 Homer, Iliad (Barbarism) I.2 Homer, Odyssey (Art and Drama) I.3 Aeschylus, Oresteia (Democracy and Drama) Section II. Ancient Philosophy II.1 Plato Apology (Heroic View of Socrates) II.2 Aristophanes, The Clouds (Another View of Socrates) II.3 Plato, The Republic (Why Be Just?) II.4 Plato, The Republic (Allegory of the Cave) II.5 Plato, The Republic (Art and Censorship) II.6 Aristotle, Physics (Philosophy of Nature) II.7 Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (Virtue, the Good Life) II.8 Aristotle, Poetics (Art) Section III. Jews, Romans, Christians III.1 The Hebrew Bible III.2 Genesis (Creation, Abraham) III.3 Job (Problem of Suffering) III.4 Romans: Plutarch, Lives ( Julius Caesar) III.5 Romans: Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (Stoicism) III.6 Christianity: Matthew, I Corinthians (Beatitudes, Christian Love) IV. The Medieval Synthesis IV.1 The Fall of Rome IV.2 Augustine, Confessions (God and Time) IV.3 Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica (Arguments for God's Existence) IV.4 Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica (Immortality of the Soul) IV.5 Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy (Hell) V. The Modern Revolution V.1 Renaissance, The Scientific Revolution V.2 Rene Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy (Doubt, Dualism) V.3 William Shakespeare, Hamlet (To Be or Not to Be) V.4 Blaise Pascal, Pensees (Limits of Modernity) V.5 Thomas Hobbes, Leviathon (The State) VI. The Enlightenment VI.1 Liberation Philosophy VI.2 Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, Monodology (Best of All Possible Worlds) VI.3 Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire, Candide (Problem of Evil) VI.4 David Hume, Enquiry (Skepticism) VI.5 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile (Education) VI.6 Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women (Women) VI.7 Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason (Transcendental Idealism) VI.8 G.W.F. Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit (German Idealism) VI.9 Immanuel Kant, Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals and John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism VII. The Counter-Enlightenment VII.1 Disenchantments VII.2 Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground (Pessimism) VII.3 Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling (Faith) VII.4 Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (Nihilism) VII.5 Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man (Evolution) VII.6 Sigmund Freud, Psychopathology of Everyday Life (Repression, The Irrational) VII.7 James Joyce, Ulysses (Stream of Consciousness) VII.8 Martin Heidegger, Being and Time (New Beginnings)

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