History of Philosophy

Anthony J. Carroll is a philosopher, theologian and parish priest in Andalusia, Spain. His previous books include Protestant Modernity; Religion and Atheism: Beyond the Divide; and Modernity and Transcendence: A Dialogue with Charles Taylor.Frederick Copleston (died 1994) was Professor of the History of Philosophy and Dean of the Faculty of Theology at London University. His work A History of Philosophy is one of the most remarkable single-handed scholarly enterprises of modern times.

• CHAPTER 1: THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHYWhy Study the History of Philosophy?Why Study Copleston’s A History of Philosophy?Copleston’s A History of Philosophy as Ignatian HumanismHow Should One Organize the History of Philosophy?Postscript: A Short Biography of Frederick Charles CoplestonBibliographyCHAPTER 2: GREECE AND ROMEIntroductionThe Birth of Greek PhilosophyThe Pioneers: The Philosophical Cosmologists of IoniaThe Socratic PeriodPlatoPlato’s Doctrine of the FormsAristotle’s Metaphysics and EthicsPost-Aristotelian PhilosophyConclusionBibliographyCHAPTER 3: MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHYIntroductionEarly Christian Thought in the Patristic PeriodSt Augustine and the City of GodThe Pseudo-DionysiusBoethius and the Consolation of PhilosophyThe Carolingian RenaissanceJohn Scottus EriugenaFrom the Tenth to the Twelfth CenturiesThe Thirteenth Century Syntheses of Reason and RevelationSt Thomas Aquinas and the Great Synthesis of Faith and ReasonScotus and the FranciscansConclusion BibliographyCHAPTER 4: LATE MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE PHILOSOPHYIntroductionWilliam of Ockham and the end of the Great Synthesis of Faith and ReasonMarsilius of Padua on the Church and the StateMeister Eckhart and the Speculative Mysticism of the Fourteenth CenturyThe Philosophy of the RenaissanceSuárez and the Scholasticism of the RenaissanceConclusionBibliographyCHAPTER 5: THE RATIONALISTS: DESCARTES TO LEIBNIZIntroductionDescartes on the Mind and the BodyPascal, Cartesianism and MalebrancheSpinoza and the Philosophy of God or NatureLeibniz and the Substance of RealityConclusionBibliographyCHAPTER 6: BRITISH PHILOSOPHY: HOBBES TO HUMEIntroductionThomas Hobbes on Materialism, Mechanism and PowerJohn Locke and the Empirical Foundations of British PhilosophyBerkeley and the Lockean LegacyDavid Hume and the Experience of ScepticismConclusionBibliographyCHAPTER 7: THE ENLIGHTENMENT: VOLTAIRE TO KANTIntroductionRousseau and the Origins of SocietyThe German Enlightenment and the Rise of the Philosophy of HistoryKant and the Modern Vision of ReasonKant on Morality and ReligionAesthetics, Teleology and the Opus PostumumConclusionBibliographyCHAPTER 8: EIGHTEENTH- AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY GERMAN PHILOSOPHY: FICHTE TO NIETZSCHEIntroductionFichte and the Fundamental Principles of PhilosophySchelling and the Idea of Nature, Schleiermacher and the Feeling of DependenceHegel and the Adventure of SpiritSchopenhauer’s Reaction Against the Transformations of Metaphysical IdealismFeuerbach’s Turn to AnthropologyMarx and Engels and the Critique of CapitalismKierkegaard and the Search for AuthenticityNietzsche and the Spiritual Crisis of ModernityConclusion: Retrospect and ProspectBibliographyCHAPTER 9: UTILITARIANISM AND EARLY ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHYIntroductionThe Utilitarianism of Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart MillThe Legacy of British Empiricism and the Philosophy of Herbert SpencerThe Idealist Movement in Great BritainIdealism in AmericaThe Pragmatist MovementThe Revolt Against IdealismBertrand Russell and the Pursuit of a Logical and Scientific PhilosophyConclusionBibliographyCHAPTER 10: NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURY FRENCH PHILOSOPHYIntroductionFrom the Revolution to Auguste ComteFrom Auguste Comte to Henri BergsonFrom Bergson to SartrePhenomenology and StructuralismConclusionBibliographyCHAPTER 11: RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHYIntroductionHistorical and philosophical themesPeter Chaadaev: Philosophy and the Problem of RussiaSlavophile and Westernizing DevelopmentsLiterature, Religion and Philosophy: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and SolovyovRussian Marxism: Plekhanov, Lenin and the Soviet UnionRussian Philosophers in Exile and the Westernizer-Slavophile LegacyConclusionBibliographyCHAPTER 12: LOGICAL POSITIVISM AND EXISTENTIALISMIntroductionContemporary British PhilosophyLogical Positivism and VerificationExistentialismConclusionBibliographyCHAPTER 13: CONCLUSIONS, OMISSIONS AND PROSPECTSIntroductionHabermas and the Unfinished Project of ModernityMacIntyre on Virtue, Character and CommunityCharles Taylor on the Self and TranscendenceTowards a Philosophy of the FutureBibliographyIndex

A consummate success… Carroll has done sterling work in bringing Copleston’s comprehensive work to a new generation.