Table of Contents

Introduction and Acknowledgments PART ONE: GREECE AND ROME ========================= 1 The Greek Cosmologists 2 Pythagoras 3 Protagoras and the Sophists 4 Socrates 5 Plato 6 Aristotle 7 The Hellenistic Period Cynicism Epicureans Scepticism 8 Stoicism Cicero Seneca 9 Judaism and Christianity 10 Neo-Platonism Philo Origen Plotinus Porphyry 11 Gnosticism PART TWO: THE MIDDLE AGES ========================= 12 Christians and Authority 13 St Augustine 14 Realism and Nominalism 15 Averroism 16 Thomas Aquinas 17 The Franciscans Roger Bacon William of Ockham 18 State and Church PART THREE: RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION ======================================= 19 The Humanist Renaissance Petrarch Machiavelli 20 The Reformation Northern Humanism Wycliffe and Hus Luther Calvin Reformation Political Thought Bodin 21 The Scientific Revolution Bruno Francis Bacon PART FOUR: THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ================================== 22 Rene Descartes Hobbes (Epistemology) 23 Blaise Pascal 24 Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza 25 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 26 Seventeenth Century Political Thought Hobbes Spinoza Locke PART FIVE: THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ================================= 27 British Pragmatists Locke Berkeley Hume 28 The Enlightenment Bayle De Fontenelle Newton Helvetius Voltaire Holbach 29 The Early Romantics Rousseau Burke 30 Eighteenth Century Philosophies of History Montesquieu Vico Condorcet Herder PART SIX: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 31 Immanuel Kant 32 Kant's Successors Fichte Schelling 33 Georg Wilhelm Friederich Hegel 34 Arthur Schopenhauer 35 Soren Kierkegaard 36 Utilitarianism Bentham J.S. Mill T.H. Green 37 The Notion of Progress Comte Darwin Spencer Marx 38 19th & 20th Century Philosophies of History 39 Nietzsche and Bergson PART SEVEN: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 40 Twentieth Century Existentialism Buber Husserl Heidegger Sartre 41 Twentieth Century Pragmatism Peirce James Dewey Moore 42 Bertrand Russell 43 Ludwig Wittgenstein 44 Logical Positivism 45 Popper and Kuhn 46 Isaiah Berlin 47 Freud and Jung 48 Structuralism and Post-Structuralism Saussure Chomsky Levi-Strauss Braudel Foucault 49 Bibliography

About the Author

Ralph Blumenau was Head of the History Department at Malvern College. Since his retirement in 1985 he has taught the history of philosophy to senior citizens at the University of the Third Age in London.

Reviews

"The author has given himself an immense task. He has carried it out admirably ... he offers a book that is a pleasure to read: lucid, unpretentious, with a minimum of scholarly apparatus." Teaching Philosophy (APA) "Blumenau is strong in the areas where Russell [History of Western Philosophy] is weak, and includes thinkers who have something of interest to say on theological or political or ethical matters, regardless of whether or not they have an established place in the philosophical canon." Philosophy Now "The book is written in a lively, casual, and engaging style with which a lay audience can easily connect." Metapsychology "Consistently Blumenau reminds us that philosophical texts shoould not serve as the be-all and end-all: they should be starting points, ideological springboards that begin something new, autonomous and unexpected ...Structuring the work in such a manner gives it an unusual vivacity and energy." -- Michael Donkor Wadham College Gazette