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History of Western Philosophy
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Ancient and Medieval Philosophy

Speculation and Dispute:   The Presocratics ]|[ Socrates

Plato:   Soul and Forms ]|[ Society and Virtue ]|[ Education and Justice ]|[
Love

Aristotle:   Logic and Physics ]|[ Reality and Knowledge ]|[
Ethics ]|[ Politics

Hellenistic Thought:   Cosmos and Morality

Philosophy and Religion:    Augustine ]|[ Scholasticism ]|[ Arab and Jewish Thought

Late Scholasticism:   Bonaventure and Aquinas
]|[ Scotus and Ockham

Early Modern Philosophy

The Renaissance:   Humanism and Science ]|[
Machiavelli ]|[ Hobbes

Descartes:    Method ]|[ Doubt and Existence ]|[ Mind and Body ]|[ Cartesianism

Variations:    Spinoza and Unity ]|[ Leibniz and Plurality

Locke:    Origin of Ideas ]|[ Human Knowledge ]|[ Government

Extensions:    Moralists and Bayle ]|[ Berkeley and Immaterialism

Hume:    Mitigated Skepticism ]|[
Self and Morality ]|[
Religion

Recent Modern Philosophy

The Enlightenment:    British ]|[ Continental

Kant:    Synthetic A Priori
]|[ Experience and
Reality ]|[ The Moral
Law

Absolute Idealism:    Fichte and Hegel ]|[ Later Idealists

Social Concerns:    Bentham and Mill ]|[ Marx and Engels

Other Reactions:    Kierkegaard ]|[ Nietzsche

Pragmatism:    Peirce ]|[ James ]|[ Dewey, Mead, & Addams

Contemporary Philosophy

Beginnings:    Logic and Mathematics ]|[
Phenomenology

Philosophical Analysis:    Moore ]|[ Russell

Alternatives:    Realism ]|[ Logical Positivism

Linguistic Analysis:    Wittgenstein ]|[ Ryle and Austin ]|[ American Analysis

Existentialism:    Heidegger ]|[ Sartre ]|[ de Beauvoir

Postmodernism:    Critical Theory ]|[ Deconstruction

Feminism:    Theory ]|[ Ethics ]|[ MacKinnon

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Last modified 27 October 2001.
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