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A passion for wisdom : a very brief history of philosophy / Robert C. Solomon and Kathleen M. Higgins.

by Solomon, Robert C.

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New York : Oxford University Press, 1998, c1997.

Philosophy -- History.

0195112091 (pbk.) :

xviii, 137 p. ; 21 cm.

Oxford University Press pbk.

Is there ultimate truth?: In the beginning -- Whence the world? Early philosophy in India -- The Hebrews, their god, and the law -- Why suffering? Zoroastrianism and the problem of evil -- What is enlightenment? Buddhism and Jainism -- In search of harmony: Confucius, Taoism, and Mo -- The stuff of the world: early Greek philosophy -- How should we live? Socrates and the sophists -- The philospher's philosophers, Plato and Aristotle -- When the going gets tough: after Aristotle -- Before the "discovery" of Africa and the Americas.

Faith and reason: The birth of Christianity -- Neoplatonism, Augustine, and the inner life of spirit -- To Mecca: the rise of Islam -- Altered states: mysticism and Zen -- Reason and faith, the peripatetic tradition -- Thinking god: scholasticism -- "Rebirth" in religion and philosophy: renaissance and reformation -- The new science and its politics -- Who knows? The role of doubt in Descartes and Montaigne -- Why do things happen? Spinoza, Leibniz, and Newton -- The search for universals: enlightenment -- "Show me!" Locke, Hume, and empiricism -- Philosophy and revolution -- Adam Smith and the new world of commerce.

From modernity to postmodernism: The domain(s) of reason: Kant -- Hegel and history -- The battle between poetry and philosophy: romanticism -- Beyond Hegel: Kierkegaard, Feuerbach, and Marx -- Where to, humanity? Mill, Darwin, and Nietzsche -- From puritanism to pragmatism: philosophy in America -- Back to basics: Frege, Russell, and Husserl -- The limits of rationality: Wittgenstein, Freud, and Weber -- The progress of process: against analysis -- The tragic sense of life: Unamuno, Croce, and Heidegger -- Reactions to fascism: positivism and existentialism -- Philosophy discovers "the other": the question of postmodernism.

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