Insights and Oversights of Great Thinkers

Charles Hartshorne's life and thought span more than eight decades. Ashbel Smith Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Texas as Austin, he has made a vast contribution to the literature of philosophy and theology. He is most notably the author of Whitehead's Philosophy, Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method, A Natural Theology for Our Time, The Logic of Perfection and Other Essays in Neoclassical Metaphysics, and numerous other books and articles. Dr. Hartshorne is also a past president of the Western Division of the American Philosophical Association, the Metaphysics Society of America, the Charles Peirce Society, the Society for Philosophy of Religion, and the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart One: Philosophical Achievements of the Ancient Greeks 1. In Appreciation of the Pre-Socratics2. Lessons from Greek Atomism for Modern Thought3. Plato's Near Miss: Soul as Self-Moved4. Aristotle's Modal View of Time and Eternity5. Stoics, Skeptics, and Greek Mystics6. Sketch of Greek Ethics and AestheticsPart Two: Between the Greeks and the Moderns7. Medieval Philosophy in General8. What Did Anselm Discover?9. Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, and OthersPart Three: Modern (European) Philosophers 10. "The Moses of Modern Philosophy"11. Spinoza: First of the Moderns or Last of the Medievals?12. The "Clearheaded" Philosopher13. Hume's Metaphysics and Its Influence14. The Neglect of Relative Predicates in Modern Philosophy15. Kant's Traditionalism16. Schopenhauer's Synthesis of East and West: The Worst of TwoWorlds17. The Unity of Opposites in Hegel and Schelling18. Kierkegaard on Subjectivity and Freedom19. Marxism and Metaphysics20. Nietzsche's "Death of God" and Deification of Causality21. Lotze, Fechner, Cournot, and Other Nineteenth-Century Forerunnersof Process MetaphysicsPart Four: Recent or Contemporary (European) Philosophers 22. Russell and Whitehead: A Comparison23. Husserl and Whitehead on the Concrete24. Mind and Matter in Ryle, Ayer, and Croce25. Reflections on Wittgenstein26. Karl Popper on Whitehead27. Husserl's Most Famous (and Heretical) Disciple28. Sartre: Philosopher, Novelist, Playwright, Political Writer29. Merleau-Ponty from an Anglo-American Perspective30. Summary of Insights and OversightsIndex of TopicsIndex of Persons