Brief Presentation of Philosophy and Its History

Ulrich Steinvorth is a Professor Emeritus of the University of Hamburg, Germany. He has published books and papers in German, English and French, in political philosophy, ethics, and metaphysics, and has taught philosophy at universities in Germany, France, Turkey, Japan and China.

• 1. What This Essay Aims At.- 2. The Reality Question, Science, or From Thales To Aristotle.- 3. Plato, or The Inebriant Answer to The Reality Question.- 4. Plotinus, Or The Meaning Of The Meaning Question.- 5. How Far Science Replaced Philosophy, or Descartes vs. Hobbes.- 6. Propositional Language and the Power Of Negation, Or Kant And The Scholastics.- 7. Morality, or Schopenhauer.- 8. Religion and Practical Metaphysics, or Kant, Feynman, and Hitler.- 9. Ideology, or Destutt de Tracy and Marx.- 10. Progress, or Weber.- 11. Applying Weber to Ideologies.- 12. Aesthetics, or Hegel.