Medieval and Modern Philosophy Understanding Philosophy 1st Edition by Joan A Price ISBN 1438120346 9781438120348

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Author: Joan A Price

Medieval and Modern Philosophy Understanding Philosophy 1st Table of contents:

• Part I: Medieval Philosophy – Faith Seeking Understanding

  • Chapter 1: The Foundations of Christian Philosophy
    • Patristic Influences: Augustine and the City of God
    • The Problem of Faith and Reason
    • Early Scholasticism and the Problem of Universals
  • Chapter 2: Anselm and the Ontological Argument
    • Anselm’s Life and Context
    • The Proslogion and the Argument for God’s Existence
    • Gaunilo’s Objection and Anselm’s Reply
    • Critiques and Enduring Significance
  • Chapter 3: Thomas Aquinas and Aristotelian Synthesis
    • The Rediscovery of Aristotle
    • Aquinas’s Life and the Summa Theologica
    • Five Ways to Prove God’s Existence
    • Natural Law and Ethics
    • Faith, Reason, and Divine Revelation
  • Chapter 4: Later Medieval Thought and the Rise of Nominalism
    • Duns Scotus: Voluntarism and the Primacy of Will
    • William of Ockham: Ockham’s Razor and Nominalism
    • The Separation of Faith and Reason
    • Seeds of the Reformation and Modernity

• Part II: The Dawn of Modern Philosophy – Reason Ascendant

  • Chapter 5: The Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution: Shifting Paradigms
    • Humanism and the Rebirth of Classical Learning
    • Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler: New Cosmologies
    • Francis Bacon and the Scientific Method (Empiricism’s Roots)
    • The Challenge to Traditional Authority
  • Chapter 6: Rationalism: The Pursuit of Certainty through Reason
    • René Descartes: “I Think, Therefore I Am”
      • Method of Doubt and the Search for Indubitable Truth
      • The Cogito and Dualism (Mind-Body Problem)
      • Arguments for God’s Existence
    • Baruch Spinoza: God or Nature
      • Monism and Determinism
      • Ethics and Human Freedom
    • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: Monads and Pre-Established Harmony
      • The Best of All Possible Worlds
      • Critique of Descartes and Spinoza
  • Chapter 7: Empiricism: Knowledge from Experience
    • John Locke: The Blank Slate
      • An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
      • Primary and Secondary Qualities
      • Political Philosophy: Natural Rights and Social Contract
    • George Berkeley: To Be Is to Be Perceived
      • Idealism and Immaterialism
      • Critique of Material Substance
    • David Hume: Skepticism and the Limits of Knowledge
      • Impressions and Ideas
      • Causation, Induction, and the Problem of Induction
      • Skepticism about God, Self, and Morality

• Part III: The Enlightenment and Beyond – Towards Critical Reason

  • Chapter 8: Immanuel Kant: The Copernican Revolution in Philosophy
    • Responding to Rationalism and Empiricism
    • The Critique of Pure Reason: Synthetic A Priori Judgments
    • Transcendental Idealism: Phenomena and Noumena
    • Moral Philosophy: Categorical Imperative and Duty
    • Aesthetics and Teleology
  • Chapter 9: Post-Kantian Idealism and Its Critics
    • German Idealism: Fichte, Schelling, Hegel (brief overview)
    • Schopenhauer: Will as the Thing-in-Itself
    • Kierkegaard: Existentialism and the Individual
    • Nietzsche: Will to Power and the Death of God

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