Summary: Part 1 includes an introduction to the entire series and to the enduring problems of philosophy. The critical tensions in Western thought are identified and the context is set for the great conversation that follows. This first part of the series is foundational, designed to teach basic facts about the philosophers and traditions covered. Classical Origins examines the origins of philosophy in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GRESummary: Part 3 explores the period from the Renaissance to the onset of the Enlightenment in the middle to late seventeenth century. This section marks the critical schism that developed between the claims of faith and those of science.
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GRESummary: The final section in the series, Part 7 details the skeptical and critical answers reached in the second half of the twentieth century to the questions posed in the previous fifty years. This section covers the work of late twentieth-century philosophers and theorists who focused on two critical features of modernity. One issue focused on modern political theory and practice. The other focused...
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GRESummary: The lectures in Part 6 bring the progress of philosophy into the present day, beginning with the work of Nietzsche and the American pragmatists William James and John Dewey. This section explains the work and consequence of modern linguistic and logical analysis in lectures on Ayer and Wittgenstein. Also discussed is the structuralism of Claude Levi-Strauss and the attempts to develop rational...
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GRESummary: Part 4 covers the period during the 17th and 18th centuries that saw widespread questioning of religious and other traditional authorities, growing faith in science, and early responses to the budding industrial revolution. This period marks the intellectual flowering that led to the American Revolution.
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GRESummary: Part 5 continues to explore the meaning of the scientific revolution and to examine the many problems that it raises. It is in this period that the West becomes keenly aware of the social and psychological origins and purposes of its activities. This is a period of spiritual turmoil as well as of material advance.
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GRESummary: Part 2 examines the biblical answers to the fundamental human questions and then traces their influence on the Western mind. This second section witnesses the transformation of philosophy from a monothetic search for explanations to a spiritual quest for meaning and understanding informed by a profound fideism.
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GRENadler, Steven M.
Summary: "This entertaining and enlightening graphic narrative tells the exciting story of the seventeenth-century thinkers who challenged authority--sometimes risking excommunication, prison, and even death--to lay the foundations of modern philosophy and science and help usher in a new world ... Heretics! tells the story of their ideas, lives, and times in a vivid new way. Crisscrossing Europe as it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 NADShields, David
Summary: "An impassioned, funny, probing, fiercely inconclusive, nearly-to-the-death debate, about life and art-cocktails included. Caleb Powell always wanted to become an artist, but he overcommitted to life (he's a stay-at-home dad to three young girls). David Shields always wanted to become a human being, but he has overcommitted to art. At antipodes since first meeting twenty-five years ago, they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 SHIBakewell, Sarah
Summary: Paris, 1933: three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are the young Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and longtime friend Raymond Aron, a fellow philosopher who raves to them about a new conceptual framework from Berlin called Phenomenology. “You see,” he says, “if you are a phenomenologist you can talk about this cocktail and make...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2016