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Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Introduction Chapter 1: Philosophy in the Renaissance

The Humanistic Background

The Ideal of Humanitas Basic Principles and Attitudes Humanist Themes in Renaissance Thought Northern Humanism Humanism and Philosophy

Political Philosophy Philosophy of Nature Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Niccolò Machiavelli

Early Life and Political Career Writings

Jean Bodin Giordano Bruno

Early Life Works Final Years

Chapter 2: Early Modern Philosophy

The Empiricism of Francis Bacon

Bacon’s Scheme The Idols of the Mind The New Method

The Materialism of Thomas Hobbes

Hobbes’s System Political Philosophy

The Rationalism of René Descartes

Descartes’s System Meditations

The Rationalism of Benedict de Spinoza The Rationalism of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Chapter 3: Philosophy in the Enlightenment

Sources and Development of Enlightenment Thought Classical British Empiricism

John Locke George Berkeley David Hume

Nonepistemological Movements

Materialism and Scientific Discovery Social and Political Philosophy

Immanuel Kant

Chapter 4: The 19th Century

German Idealism

Johann Gottlieb Fichte Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Social and Political Theory

The Positivism of Auguste Comte The Utilitarianism of Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill

Karl Marx Independent and Irrationalist Movements

Arthur Schopenhauer Søren Kierkegaard Friedrich Nietzsche Wilhelm Dilthey and Henri Bergson

Chapter 5: Contemporary Philosophy

John Dewey and Alfred North Whitehead Marxist Thought

Vladimir Ilich Lenin György Lukács and Antonio Gramsci Critical Theory

Non-Marxist Political Philosophy

Hannah Arendt John Rawls Critiques of Philosophical Liberalism

Analytic Philosophy

The Formalist Tradition The Informalist Tradition

Continental Philosophy

The Relevance of Contemporary Philosophy

Glossary Bibliogrphy Index