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272 pages 21 cm The nature of philosophy -- I. Philosophic thought before philosophy in the strict sense -- Introduction -- Primitive tradition -- The semites and the Egyptians -- The indo-Europeans: (a) The Persians -- (b) the Indians: -- (i) Brahmanism) -- (ii) Buddhism -- (iii) Other schools -- (c) The chinese -- Limitations of human wisdom -- The Greeks the chosen people of reason -- II. The pre-socratic philosophers -- The Sages -- The Ionians: (a) Thales and his successors -- (b) The great physicists: -- (i) Heraclitus -- (ii) Democritus -- (iii) Anaxagoras -- The Italians: Pythagoras -- The Eleatics: Parmenides -- III. The Sophists and Socrates -- Introduction -- The sophists -- Socrates -- (a) Ethics and knowledge -- (b) Irony, maieutic, dialectic (c) Moderate intellectualism -- IV. Plato and Aristotle -- The minor Socratics -- Plato -- (a) His theory of ideas -- (b) His system of philosophy (c) Its limitations -- Aristotle -- (a) Corrections of Plato -- (b) The Aristotelian system -- (c) Aristotle's works -- Aristotle and St. Thomas -- Philosophia perennis -- V. Definition of philosophy -- Scientific knowledge -- Its material object -- Its formal object -- Conclusion I --

Who reads An Introduction to Philosophy?

Author

E. I. Watkin

Publisher

New York, Sheed & Ward

Published

1947

Language

EN

Category

education

Subjects

Philosophy, Education, Humanities

Rating

3.93 / 5 (103 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14