Proper Objects: Studies in Philosophy for All Levels
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 242
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 242
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Proper Objects: Studies in Philosophy for All Levels is that much needed book. Proper Objects is for anyone who would engage in finding answers to classic questions in Philosophy and human affairs ranging from the ancient world to the postmodern.
Proper Objects rewards a variety of readers, too: beginning and advanced.
The person approaching Philosophy for the first time will find Proper Objects, and therefore Philosophy, remarkably accessible. The book is written with a clarity one would hope to find in a guide through the wondrous issues that, for centuries, have made Philosophy famous (or infamous) and, yes, fun.
Even more, the person advanced in issues (and great texts) in Philosophy will find in Proper Objects ways to revisit themes they might wish to consider again. Unlike many textbooks, Proper Objects offers in-depth readings of many classics in Philosophy not often appreciated well: for example, Plato’s Euthyphro; Aristotle’s On the Soul; Epicurus’ “Letters”; Plotinus’ Enneads; Aquinas’ “Five Ways”; Descartes’ Meditations; Kant’s Critique of Judgment; Schopenhauer’s World as Will and Representation; Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit; and Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy, just to name a few.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Ancient Philosophy
Heraclitus: Champion of Becoming
Parmenides: Champion of Being
Zeno: The Paradox Master
Pythagoras: Champion of Number
Plato:
Republic: The Essence of Justice
Euthyphro: The Essence of Holiness
Crito
Aristotle:
The Three Types of Wisdom
The Four Causes
On the Soul
Theology
Epicurus: Cosmological and Moral Principles
Sextus Empiricus: Harbinger of Skepticism
Plotinus: On Beauty and Unity
Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy
Augustine:
On Time and Eternity
On Evil
Thomas Aquinas: The Morals of the “Five Ways”
René Descartes: Champion of Certainty
Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan
John Locke: The Empiricist Cure for Skepticism
Gottfried Leibniz: The Monadologist
Baruch Spinoza: The Novel Pantheist
David Hume: The Greatest Skeptic
Late and Post-Modern Philosophy
Immanuel Kant: The Mind’s Construction of Reality
Arthur Schopenhauer: The Pessimist Aesthete
G. W. F. Hegel: The Daring Trinitarian
J. S. Mill: The Major Utilitarian
Karl Marx: The Dialectical Materialist
Friedrich Nietzsche: Nihilism and the Death of God
Martin Heidegger: Post-Modern Champion of Being
Hannah Arendt: The New Political Theorist
Jean-Paul Sartre: The “Principled” Existentialist
Introduction to Logic
Gallery
Notes
Index
For over thirty years, Marshell Bradley, Ph.D., has engaged students in Philosophy at every level: from beginning undergraduates in the U. S. to some of the most advanced graduate students in Philosophy in international settings. Formerly Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Alderson-Broaddus College, the Technische Universität zu Braunschweig (Germany), and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Sam Houston State University, Bradley is currently teaching at Blinn College in Texas.