Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Philosophical Achievements of the Ancient Greeks 1. In Appreciation of the Pre-Socratics 2. Lessons from Greek Atomism for Modern Thought 3. Plato's Near Miss: Soul as Self-Moved 4. Aristotle's Modal View of Time and Eternity 5. Stoics, Skeptics, and Greek Mystics 6. Sketch of Greek Ethics and Aesthetics Part Two: Between the Greeks and the Moderns 7. Medieval Philosophy in General 8. What Did Anselm Discover? 9. Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, and Others Part Three: Modern (European) Philosophers 10. "The Moses of Modern Philosophy" 11. Spinoza: First of the Moderns or Last of the Medievals? 12. The "Clearheaded" Philosopher 13. Hume's Metaphysics and Its Influence 14. The Neglect of Relative Predicates in Modern Philosophy 15. Kant's Traditionalism 16. Schopenhauer's Synthesis of East and West: The Worst of TwoWorlds 17. The Unity of Opposites in Hegel and Schelling 18. Kierkegaard on Subjectivity and Freedom 19. Marxism and Metaphysics 20. Nietzsche's "Death of God" and Deification of Causality 21. Lotze, Fechner, Cournot, and Other Nineteenth-Century Forerunnersof Process Metaphysics Part Four: Recent or Contemporary (European) Philosophers 22. Russell and Whitehead: A Comparison 23. Husserl and Whitehead on the Concrete 24. Mind and Matter in Ryle, Ayer, and Croce 25. Reflections on Wittgenstein 26. Karl Popper on Whitehead 27. Husserl's Most Famous (and Heretical) Disciple 28. Sartre: Philosopher, Novelist, Playwright, Political Writer 29. Merleau-Ponty from an Anglo-American Perspective 30. Summary of Insights and Oversights Index of Topics Index of Persons

About the Author

Charles Hartshorne's life and thought span more than eight decades. Ashbel Smith Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Texas as Austin, he has made a vast contribution to the literature of philosophy and theology. He is most notably the author of Whitehead's Philosophy, Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method, A Natural Theology for Our Time, The Logic of Perfection and Other Essays in Neoclassical Metaphysics, and numerous other books and articles. Dr. Hartshorne is also a past president of the Western Division of the American Philosophical Association, the Metaphysics Society of America, the Charles Peirce Society, the Society for Philosophy of Religion, and the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology.