Tuesday, September 20, 2011

The Story of Philosophy

Written by Will Durant: copyright first in 1926.
Philosophy means and includes: logic, esthetics, ethics, politics, and metaphysics.

Chapter I: Plato: 427 - 347 B. C.    Socrates died 399 B. C.

Chapter II: Aristotle and Greek Science: 384 - 322 B. C.
                  Alexander died 323 B. C.  (pupil of Aristotle)

Chapter III: Francis Bacon: 1561 - 1626
The most powerful mind of modern times.

Chapter IV: Baruch de Spinoza: 1632 - 1677
The greatest Jew of modern times.

Chapter V: Voltaire and the French Enlightment 
Francois-Marie Arouet (Voltaire): 1694 - 1778
Includes a section on Voltaire and Rousseau.

Chapter VI: Immanuel Kant and German Idealism: 1724 - 1804
Voltaire to Kant
Locke to Kant
Rousseau to Kant
Kant Himself
A note on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: 1770 - 1831

Chapter VII: Arthur Schopenhauer: 1788 - 1860

Chapter VIII: Herbert Spencer: 1820 - 1903
Auguste Compte and Charles Darwin

Chapter IX: Friedrich Nietzsche: 1844 - 1900
Charles Darwin and Bismarck
Nietzsche and Wagner

Chapter X: Contemporary European Philosophers: Bergson, Croce, and Bertrand Russell.
Henri Bergson: 1859 - 1941.  Nobel prize in Literature in 1927.

A French Jew.
Benedetto Croce: 1866 - 1952. Italian Catholic
Bertrand Russell: 1872 - 1970.  Nobel prize in Lierature in 1950.
From England.

Chapter XI: Contemporary American Philosophers: Santayana, James and Dewey.
Santayana was born in Madrid in 1863 and died in Rome in 1952.
Taught at Harvard for 23 years.
William James was born in New York City in 1852 and died in 1910.  MD degree at Harvard in 1870 and taught there for 38 years.
John Dewey was Born in Vermont in 1859 and died in 1952.
Taught philosopy at universities of Minnesota, Michigan and Chicago and head of philosophy department at Columbia.

Completed reading all 530 pages on 10/3/2011






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