Philosophy and LivingPhilosophy can be very abstract and apparently remote from our everyday concerns. In this book Ralph Blumenau brings out for the non-specialist the bearing that thinkers of the past have on the way we live now, on the attitude we have towards our lives, towards each other and our society, towards God and towards the ethical problems that confront us. The focus of the book is those aspects of the history of ideas which have something to say to our present preoccupations. After expounding the ideas of a particular thinker there follows a discussion of the material and how it relates to issues that are still alive today (indented from the margin and set in a different typeface), based on the author's classroom debates with his own students. Another feature of the book is the many footnotes which refer the reader back to earlier, and forward to later, pages of the book. They are intended to reinforce the idea that throughout the centuries philosophers have often grappled with the same problems, sometimes coming up with similar approaches and sometimes with radically different ones. |
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... AGES 12 Christians and Authority . 99 13 St Augustine . 103 14 Realism and Nominalism . 115 15 16 17 The Franciscans Averroism ... Thomas Aquinas Roger Bacon • William of Ockham . 123 131 149 149 153 18 State and Church . . . 159.
... Bacon 167 169 170 • 177 183 183 184 186 191 • 196 199 201 205 206 209 210 PART FOUR : THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 22 22 Descartes . Hobbes ( Epistemology ) . . 23 2222 26 Pascal . . . 24 Spinoza .. 25 Leibniz 219 226 229 235 247 Seventeenth ...
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Contents
The Greek Cosmologists | 5 |
5 | 21 |
6 | 43 |
The Hellenistic Period | 59 |
9 | 77 |
Philo | 85 |
Gnosticism | 93 |
19 | 167 |
222222 | 361 |
32 | 381 |
33 | 389 |
34 | 401 |
Bentham | 419 |
The Notion of Progress | 435 |
Philosophies of History in the 19th 20th Centuries | 455 |
Nietzsche and Bergson | 477 |