The great conversation: A historical introduction to philosophy 8th Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780190670689, 0190670681, 9780190670627, 0190670622 

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 0190670681
• ISBN-13: 9780190670689
• Author: Norman Melchert, David R. Morrow

Tracing the exchange of ideas among history’s key philosophers, The Great Conversation: A Historical Introduction to Philosophy, Eighth Edition, provides a generous selection of excerpts from major philosophical works and makes them more easily understandable to students with lucid and engaging explanations. Extensive cross-referencing shows students how philosophers respond appreciatively or critically to the thoughts of other philosophers.The Great Conversation, Eighth Edition, is also available in two separate volumes to suit your course needs:The Great Conversation: Volume I: Pre-Socratics through Descartes, Eighth EditionThe Great Conversation: Volume II: Descartes through Derrida and Quine, Eighth Edition

Table contents:

CHAPTER 1: BEFORE PHILOSOPHY: Myth in Hesiod and Homer

CHAPTER 2: PHILOSOPHY BEFORE SOCRATES

CHAPTER 3: APPEARANCE AND REALITY IN ANCIENT INDIA

CHAPTER 4: THE SOPHISTS: RHETORIC AND RELATIVISM IN ATHENS

CHAPTER 5: REASON AND RELATIVISM IN CHINA

CHAPTER 6: SOCRATES: TO KNOW ONESELF

CHAPTER 7: THE TRIAL AND DEATH OF SOCRATES

CHAPTER 8: PLATO: Knowing the Real and the Good

CHAPTER 9: ARISTOTLE: The Reality of the World

CHAPTER 10: CONFUCIUS, MENCIUS, AND XUNZI: Virtue in Ancient China

CHAPTER 11: EPICUREANS, STOICS, AND SKEPTICS: Happiness for the Many

CHAPTER 12: JEWS AND CHRISTIANS: Sin, Salvation, and Love

CHAPTER 13: AUGUSTINE: God and the Soul

CHAPTER 14: PHILOSOPHY IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD: The Great Conversation Spreads Out

CHAPTER 15: ANSELM AND AQUINAS: Existence and Essence in God and the World

CHAPTER 16: FROM MEDIEVAL TO MODERN EUROPE

CHAPTER 17: RENÉ DESCARTES: Doubting Our Way to Certainty

CHAPTER 18: HOBBES, LOCKE, AND BERKELEY: Materialism and the Beginnings of Empiricism

CHAPTER 19: DAVID HUME: Unmasking the Pretensions of Reason

CHAPTER 20: IMMANUEL KANT: Rehabilitating Reason (Within Strict Limits)

CHAPTER 21: GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL: Taking History Seriously

CHAPTER 22: KIERKEGAARD AND MARX: Two Ways to “Correct” Hegel

CHAPTER 23: MORAL AND POLITICAL REFORMERS: The Happiness of All, Including Women

CHAPTER 24: FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE: The Value of Existence

CHAPTER 25: THE PRAGMATISTS: Thought and Action

CHAPTER 26: LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN: Linguistic Analysis and Ordinary Language

CHAPTER 27: MARTIN HEIDEGGER: The Meaning of Being

CHAPTER 28: SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR: Existentialist, Feminist

CHAPTER 29: POSTMODERNISM: Derrida, Foucault, and Rorty

CHAPTER 30: PHYSICAL REALISM AND THE MIND: Quine, Dennett, Searle, Nagel, Jackson, and Chalmers

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