Great Ideas of Philosophy, 2nd Edition

From the Upanishads to Homer

Philosophy — Did the Greeks Invent It?

Pythagoras and the Divinity of Number

What Is There?

The Greek Tragedians on Man’s Fate

Herodotus and the Lamp of History

Socrates on the Examined Life

Plato's Search for Truth

Can Virtue Be Taught?

Plato's Republic — Man Writ Large

Hippocrates and the Science of Life

Aristotle on the Knowable

Aristotle on Friendship

Aristotle on the Perfect Life

Rome, the Stoics, and the Rule of Law

The Stoic Bridge to Christianity

Roman Law — Making a City of the Once-Wide World

The Light Within — Augustine on Human Nature

Islam

Secular Knowledge — The Idea of University

The Reappearance of Experimental Science

Scholasticism and the Theory of Natural Law

The Renaissance — Was There One?

Let Us Burn the Witches to Save Them

Francis Bacon and the Authority of Experience

Descartes and the Authority of Reason

Newton — The Saint of Science

Hobbes and the Social Machine

Locke’s Newtonian Science of the Mind

No Matter? The Challenge of Materialism

Hume and the Pursuit of Happiness

Thomas Reid and the Scottish School

France and the Philosophes

The Federalist Papers and the Great Experiment

What Is Enlightenment? Kant on Freedom

Moral Science and the Natural World

Phrenology — a Science of the Mind

The Idea of Freedom

The Hegelians and History

The Aesthetic Movement — Genius

Nietzsche at the Twilight

The Liberal Tradition — J.S. Mill

Darwin and Nature’s “purposes”

Marxism — Dead but Not Forgotten

The Freudian World

The Radical William James

William James's Pragmatism

Wittgenstein and the Discursive Turn

Alan Turing in the Forest of Wisdom

Four Theories of the Good Life

Ontology — What There "Really" Is

Philosophy of Science — The Last Word?

Philosophy of Psychology and Related Confusions

Philosophy of Mind, If There Is One

What Makes a Problem "Moral"

Medicine and the Value of Life

On the Nature of Law

Justice and Just Wars

Aesthetics — Beauty Without Observers

God — Really?