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The Search for World Order: Ancient Philosophy |
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1 | (78) |
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The ``Axial Period'' and the Origins of Philosophy |
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1 | (6) |
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The ``Miracle'' of Greece |
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7 | (4) |
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Philosophy, Myth, Religion, and Science |
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11 | (6) |
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Meaning and Creation: Cosmogony and the Origins of Philosophy |
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17 | (5) |
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Vedas and Vedanta: Early Philosophy in India |
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22 | (3) |
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The First (Greek) Philosopher |
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25 | (4) |
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The Pre-Socratic Philosophers (I): The Stuff of the World |
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29 | (3) |
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The Pre-Socratic Philosophers (II): The Underlying Order |
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32 | (4) |
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The Pre-Socratic Philosophers (III): The Pluralists |
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36 | (3) |
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39 | (4) |
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43 | (6) |
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Plato: Metaphysician or Sublime Humorist? |
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49 | (7) |
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The Philosopher's Philosopher: Aristotle |
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56 | (11) |
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A Footnote to Plato (and Aristotle) |
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67 | (1) |
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Tough Times: Stoicism, Skepticism, and Epicureanism |
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68 | (6) |
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Mysticism and Logic in Ancient India: Nagarjuna and Nyaya |
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74 | (5) |
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God and the Philosophers: Religious and Medieval Philosphy |
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79 | (96) |
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Religion and Spirituality: Three Philosophical Themes |
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81 | (3) |
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The Wisdom of the East (I): Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism |
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84 | (7) |
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The Wisdom of the East (II): Confucius and Confucianism |
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91 | (5) |
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The Wisdom of the East (III): Lao-tzu, Chuang-tzu, and Taoism |
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96 | (3) |
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Deep in the Heart of Persia: Zoroastrianism |
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99 | (1) |
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From Athens to Jerusalem: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam |
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100 | (5) |
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The Hebrew People and the Origins of Judaism |
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105 | (6) |
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Greek Jew: Philo of Alexandria |
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111 | (3) |
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The Birth of Christianity |
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114 | (4) |
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The Opening of Christianity: St. Paul |
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118 | (3) |
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Neoplatonism and Christianity |
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121 | (1) |
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St. Augustine and the Inner Life of Spirit |
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122 | (4) |
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The First Great Split Within Christianity |
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126 | (3) |
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129 | (4) |
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133 | (1) |
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Persia and the Peripatetic Tradition |
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134 | (5) |
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Diaspora, Dialectic, and Mysticism in Judaism |
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139 | (3) |
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Thinking God: Anselm, Abelard, Aquinas, and Scholasticism |
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142 | (5) |
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Late Scholasticism: Duns Scotus and William of Ockham |
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147 | (2) |
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In Search of Essences: The Alchemists |
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149 | (3) |
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Philosophical Syntheses Outside the West |
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152 | (2) |
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The Reformation: Luther and His Progeny |
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154 | (6) |
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The Counter-Reformation, Erasmus, and More |
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160 | (3) |
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After Aristotle: Bacon, Hobbes, Machiavelli, and the Renaissance |
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163 | (4) |
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Before the ``Discovery'': Africa and the Americas |
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167 | (8) |
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Between Science and Religion: Modern Philosophy and the Enlightenment |
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175 | (68) |
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Science, Religion, and the Meaning of Modernism |
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175 | (3) |
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Montaigne: The First Modern Philosopher? |
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178 | (2) |
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Descartes and the New Science |
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180 | (6) |
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Spinoza, Leibniz, Pascal, and Newton |
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186 | (6) |
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The Enlightenment, Colonialism, and the Eclipse of the Orient |
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192 | (2) |
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Locke, Hume, and Empiricism |
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194 | (5) |
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Adam Smith, the Moral Sentiments, and the Protestant Ethic |
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199 | (3) |
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Voltaire, Rousseau, and Revolution |
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202 | (3) |
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Immanuel Kant: Saving Science |
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205 | (5) |
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Kant's Moral Philosophy and the Third Critique |
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210 | (4) |
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The Discovery of History: Hegel |
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214 | (7) |
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Philosophy and Poetry: Rationalism and Romanticism |
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221 | (2) |
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Romantic West Meets East: Schopenhauer |
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223 | (3) |
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After Hegel: Kierkegaard, Feuerbach, and Marx |
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226 | (4) |
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Mill, Darwin, and Nietzsche: Consumerism, Energy, and Evolution |
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230 | (5) |
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Early Philosophy in America |
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235 | (8) |
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From Modernism to Postmodernism: The Twentieth Century |
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243 | (64) |
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The Rejection of Idealism: A Century of Horrors |
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243 | (2) |
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Frege, Russell, and Husserl: Arithmetic, Atomism Phenomenology |
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245 | (8) |
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Zarathustra in the Trenches: The Limits of Rationality |
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253 | (6) |
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The American Experience in Philosophy: Pragmatism |
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259 | (5) |
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Changing Reality: Philosophies of Process |
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264 | (2) |
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Unamuno, Croce, and Heidegger: The Tragic Sense of Life |
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266 | (8) |
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Hitler, the Holocaust, Positivism, and Existentialism |
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274 | (5) |
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No Exit: The Existentialism of Camus, Sartre, and Beauvior |
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279 | (3) |
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From Ideal to Ordinary Language: From Cambridge to Oxford |
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282 | (4) |
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Women and Gender: The Feminization of Philosophy |
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286 | (6) |
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The Return of the Oppressed: Africa, Asia, and the Americas |
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292 | (7) |
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From Postmodernism to the New Age |
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299 | (5) |
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World Philosophy: Promise or Pretense |
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304 | (3) |
Notes |
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307 | (8) |
Selected Bibliography |
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315 | (10) |
Index |
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