From the Book - SEVENTH edition.
Before philosophy : myth in Hesiod and Homer
Philosophy before Socrates
The Sophists : rhetoric and relativism in Athens
Socrates : to know oneself
The trial and death of Socrates
Plato : knowing the real and the good
Aristotle : the reality of the world
Epicureans, Stoics, and Skeptics : happiness for the many
Jews and Christians : sin, salvation, and love
Augustine : God and the soul
Anselm and Aquinas : existence and essence in God and the world
Moving from medieval to modern
René Descartes : doubting our way to certainty
Hobbes, Locke, and Berkeley : materialism and the beginnings of empiricism
David Hume : unmasking the pretensions of reason
Immanuel Kant : rehabilitating reason (within strict limits)
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel : taking history seriously
Kierkegaard and Marx ; two ways to "correct" Hegel
The utilitarians : moral rules and the happiness of all (including women)
Friedrich Nietzsche : the value of existence
The Pragmatists : thought and action
Ludwig Wittgenstein : linguistic analysis and ordinary language
Martin Heidegger : the meaning of being
Simone de Beauvoir : existentialist, feminist
Postmodernism : Derrida, Foucault, and Rorty
Physical realism and the mind : Quine, Dennett, Searle, Nagel, Jackson, and Chalmers.
