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| | Philosophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Eastern philosophy follows the broad traditions that originated from, or were popular within, Iran, India and China. | | | Historically most philosophy has either centred on religious beliefs, or science. | | | There are many other view points and intellectual traditions in philosophy, especially in Persia (Iran) both in Islamic and pre-Islamic periods, which is still mainly unknown to the West. |
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| | A History of Western Philosophy 2.18 |
| | A recognition of the nature of the universe and its dependence on God is the basis for maxims having to do with worship of and reverence for God. | | | All knowledge illumines and is illumined by what God has revealed in Scripture. | | | The whole purpose and function of philosophy is to lead us to the threshold of divine truth; across that threshold would seem to be Scripture. |
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| | Plato (from philosophy, history of) -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | By far the most important disciple of Socrates, however, was Plato, a scion of one of the most noble Athenian families, who could trace his ancestry back to the last king of Athens and to Solon, the great social and political reformer. | | | The religious traditions of Judaism and Christianity have provided one foundation of Western... | | | "Series of lectures on the evolution of philosophy from the 16th to 18th century. |
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| | Sketches in the History of Western Philosophy |
| | Philosophy revived through the adaptation of the Neoplatonism of Late Antiquity to Islam: the One became God, and the lesser gods became angels. | | | Menander Soter Dikaios (Milinda in Pali) is an important figure in the history of Buddhism, as the king in the Milindapanha, "Questions of Milinda," where he asks the sage Nagasena about Buddhism. | | | Familiar with the whole of Greek and Hellenistic philosophy, Philo sought to reconcile it, indeed to identify it, with the meaning and teachings of the Bible. |
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| | Books: History of Western Philosophy (Routledge Classics S.) |
| | After the lucid introduction, which poses the ubiquitous question, whether philosophy is the supreme manifestation of wisdom, or merely the "ultimate refinement of folly", Russell enters into a superb excavation and analysis of thinkers from Thales to the formal logicians of his own day. | | | Comment: I am not a philosophy student myself, and I find Bertrand Russell's acerbic style extremely readable. | | | A book that will stand the test of time, 2004-08-03 |
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http://www.iwantipod.co.uk/shop/0415325056.html
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| | Amazon.com: So You'd Like to... Pass doctoral comps in the history of western philosophy |
| | The exams at my school (Boston University) for my specialization (philosophy of religion) consist of (1) history of western philosophy and (2) philosophy of religion, and (3) an exam specific to one's dissertation, usually before one begins the actual writing. | | | As a doctoral student in religion, with a concentration in the philosophy of religion, I am in the continual process of reading for my general exams. | | | If you missed a few of your favorites, please remember that these lists are always idiosyncratic and there is a whole separate list (at my school) for philosophy of religion (e.g. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/guides/guide-display/-/1AD8RJCBR6L51
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| | The Telson Spur: Field Nodes -- Concepts (1): Philosophy |
| | No man, even the most learned in his discipline, can progress farther along the road to perfection than the point where he is found most knowing in the very ignorance that characterizes him; and he will be the more learned, the more he comes to know himself for ignorant. | | | PRT-LIBN: The Philosophy, Religion, and Theology Librarians' E-mail Discussion Group (ed. | | | Leaves: Primary Source Philosophy Texts on the World Wide Web |
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| | Linking Library: Science(general): Philosophy(general) links. |
| | James Fieser's versions * "Discourse on the Method" [text ]and * "Meditations of First Philosophy" [text]. | | | Essential Readings on Chinese Philosophy - Covers Confucianism, Daoism (Taoism), Mohism, Chinese Buddhism, and Neo-Confucianism. | | | This home page is basically a list of mainly 12th and 13th century manuscripts containing treatises on logic (e.g. |
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http://www.theorderoftime.com/cyber/to/s(g)-file/philos.gen.html
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| | History of Philosophy |
| | René Descartes and the Meditations on First Philosophy | | | Chicago Schools: Economics, Religion, Philosophy, & Law [4.8K] | | | Rudolf Otto in Rem B. Edwards' Reason and Religion [6.4K] |
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| | A History of Western Philosophy 1.15 |
| | Since the point of this reading list is to cite books the student might consult, the books are mentioned in terms of their present availability and the dates are often the dates of reprints whether in hard covers or soft. | | | Cornford, From Religion to Philosophy: A Study in the Origins of Western Speculation, (New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1957) | | | Charles M. Bakewell, Source Book in Ancient Philosophy, (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, reprinted 1963). |
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http://www.nd.edu/Departments/Maritain/etext/hwp115.htm
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| | Philosophy -- History of Philosophy and Western Works |
| | This is an important source to use for information on ancient female thinkers. | | | Bryan M. Carson, J.D., M.I.L.S. Philosophy and Religion Librarian / Coordinator of Reference and Library Instruction | | | History of Women Philosophers / Gilles Menage; translated by Beatrice H. Zedler. |
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http://www.wku.edu/~bryan.carson/philosophy/philos_hist.htm
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| | Immanuel Kant -- Metaphysics [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | Kant believes that all the threads of his transcendental philosophy come together in this "highest point" which he calls the transcendental unity of apperception. | | | By denying the possibility of knowledge of these ideas, yet arguing for their role in the system of reason, Kant had to, "annul knowledge in order to make room for faith." (B xxx). | | | The Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785) is Kant's "search for and establishment of the supreme principle of morality." In The Critique of Practical Reason (1787) Kant attempts to unify his account of practical reason with his work in the Critique of Pure Reason. |
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| | Annotated Webliography of Humanism |
| | The classical tradition is conceived as the theme which unifies the history of Western civilization. | | | Whether or not they use the term "humanism", tens of millions of Americans and hundreds of millions of people around the world agree with the humanist philosophy of living a happy and productive life based on reason and compassion." | | | "The purpose of this site is to assist the amateur or professional scholar in finding documents relating to liberal religious history -- particularly Unitarian, Universalist, Ethical Culture, and religious humanism. |
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| | Bertrand Russell |
| | The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true." | | | Russell's most important writings relating to these topics include not only "On Denoting" (1905), but also his "Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description" (1910), "The Philosophy of Logical Atomism" (1918, 1919), "Logical Atomism" (1924), | | | This is so, even though he believed that his one, true revolution in philosophy came about as a result of his break from idealism. |
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| | Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Richard Popkin, 81; author was scholar on skepticism |
| | An internationally known authority on the interaction throughout history of Jewish and Christian philosophy and theology, Dr. Popkin examined millennial clues from the Bible and other religious writing pointing toward an apocalypse and ''rapture," or ascent to heaven after 1,000 years. | | | He was 81 and had emphysema, which caused him to use a wheelchair. | | | Richard H. Popkin, a retired University of California-Los Angeles professor of philosophy who became an expert on skepticism and its history through the centuries, died here Thursday, his family said. |
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http://www.boston.com/news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/04/19/richard_popkin_81_author_was_scholar_on_skepticism
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| | Existentialsim by Roger Jones |
| | As we saw in the philosophy of god section Kierkegaard thought that the individual could chose to have a religious faith in the face of an absurd world | | | Kierkegaard thought that philosophers who claimed that philosophy could show us the ultimate nature of spirit were deluded. | | | Hegel claimed to have overcome paradox, but Kierkegaard was not convinced. |
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| | HISTORY OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY II |
| | This course fulfills the general education requirement for Philosophy and Religion, and is a requirement for the philosophy major and minor. | | | We will focus on the dispute between rationalism and empiricism and the resulting issues in metaphysics and epistemology. | | | Before writing your paper, be sure that you consult the handout on writing philosophy papers. |
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| | Post Structuralism by Roger Jones |
| | Rather than analyse these discursive practices in terms of their truth, he analyses them in terms of their history or genesis. | | | He claimed that he was attempting to do an 'archaeology' of knowledge, to show the history of truth claims. | | | In his 'History of Sexuality' he argued that the rise of medical and psychiatric science has created a discourse of sexuality as deep, instinctual and mysterious. |
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| | Björn's Guide to Philosophy - Journals |
| | An online group of discussion boards with pages on Religion, Music, Love, Life, Odd thoughts, and Money. | | | Sorites - Not there, do you know a new URL? | | | Dialegesthai a place where traditional themes of Western Metaphysics can meet ways of arguing and a style of thinking coming from Logic and Analytic Philosophy. |
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| | History of Western Philosophy - tribe.net |
| | I also intend for this group to be a place for people that are old friends of philosophy, and perhaps have read the book before, but are looking to brush up. | | | The History of Western Philosophy tribe is a place to concentrate an interest in philosophy. | | | Just think what that will do for your social life: real win friends and influence people kind of stuff. |
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http://www.tribe.net/tribe/f2c233b2-6f64-4311-98e9-6291b5503cb7
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| | Island of Freedom - St. Thomas Aquinas |
| | Pope Pius XII, in the encyclical Humani Generis (Of the Human Race, 1950), affirmed that the Thomist philosophy is the surest guide to Roman Catholic doctrine and discouraged all departures from it. | | | In this way Christ as head of humanity effects the forgiveness of their sins, their reconciliation with God, their immunity from punishment, deliverance from the devil, and the opening of Heaven's gate. | | | Interest in Thomist philosophy began to revive, however, toward the end of the 19th century. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited The Guardian Revealed - the meaning of life |
| | If our metaphysical cab ride were longer, I could go into more detail; address more of those nagging doubts; explain why having a religious worldview would change things a little, but not as much as you might think; and hopefully present a more complete and convincing case. | | | The history of western philosophy contains all the insights we need to understand the meaning of life. | | | So we can be clear enough about what it means for life to have meaning and value, but when we put down our philosophy books and actually get on with living, meaning and value can be elusive. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1308219,00.html
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: The Oxford History of Western Philosophy |
| | In my opinion, this book is written with an overall idealist bias (which I disagree with, I am theist), and a leftist perspective in the section on politics. | | | This book has many beautiful pictures and reads easily. | | | I was in particular disappointed but the very short treatment of Aquinas, whose philosophy is "beyond the scope of this book." I wish Copleston had written a shorter history next to his monumental work, so that it would compete with this present book. |
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| | OUP: Oxford Illustrated History of Western Philosophy: Kenny |
| | The book is illustrated with over 150 colour and black-and-white pictures, chosen to illuminate and complement the text. | | | Written by a team of distinguished scholars, it tells the story of Western philosophy from its ancient beginnings to the present day, emphasizing the intellectual context of its development. | | | Key concepts, doctrines, and schools of thought from both the Anglo-American and Continental traditions are explored in a distinctive and accessible way. |
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| | History of Philosophy |
| | Philosophy and Religion: Augustine ][ Scholasticism ][ Arab and Jewish Thought | | | Although some sections are nearly complete, this remains a work in progress; please be patient. | | | The pages of this section offer a narrative survey of the historical development of Western philosophy. |
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: History of Western Philosophy |
| | I myself am on my third copy of the book, having worn out the previous two reading, writing and teaching the wisdom contained within their pages. | | | This is philosophy in context and ideas brought to life from one of the best writers and one of the most brilliant minds of the twentieth century. | | | There are many books out there promising the reader an introduction to philosophy. |
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| | Guide to Philosophy on the Internet (Suber) |
| | Formerly one of the best, but no longer regularly updated. | | | The Pascal Centre for Advanced Studies in Faith and Science. | | | Society for the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science |
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| | Aristotle et al. |
| | The Revival of Scholastic Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century | | | by Norbert Jones, C.R.L. History of Medieval Philosophy | | | by Joseph Rickaby, S.J. St. Thomas Aquinas and Medieval Philosophy |
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| | Western Philosophy |
| | Derived from the Greek meaning “love of wisdom”, philosophy originally encompassed the love of all wisdom, but only in recent centuries came to refer to a special branch of enquiry, separate from other sciences, such as “natural philosophy”. | | | The Greeks had no written history before them and the only basis of empirical observation was the day-to-day observations of the philosophers themselves. | | | The revival of the philosophical legacy of the Ancient Greeks (particularly the individualism and scientific interests of the Stoics) and a number of important natural scientific and technical discoveries, and challenges to the authority of the Church promoted the development of Rationalism. |
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| | History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell |
| | Of course this cannot be the only reason it ended up the best-selling philosophy book of the twentieth century. | | | First published in 1946, History of Western Philosophy went on to become the best-selling philosophy book of the twentieth century. | | | Russell's book was 'long on wit, intelligence and curmudgeonly scepticism', as the New York Times noted, and it is this, coupled with the sheer brilliance of its scholarship, that has made Russell's History of Western Philosophy one of the most important philosophical works of all time. |
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| | Barnes & Noble.com - History of Western Philosophy - Bertrand Russell - Paperback |
| | In seventy-six chapters he traces philosophy from the rise of Greek civilization to the emergence of logical analysis in the twentieth century. | | | This book is very friendly to a beginning philosopher and rarely requires outside knowledge to interpret. | | | It's great to read such a comprehensive book that I can mentally cross reference with other larger history books (Roth's History of the Jews, and college texts I can't remember), and see them intersect so neatly. |
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http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=ZYw1nDcin6&isbn=0671201581&itm=7
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| | The Columbia History of Western Philosophy; ; Edited by Richard H. Popkin |
| | The Columbia History significantly broadens the scope of Western philosophy to reveal the influence of Middle Eastern and Asian thought, the vital contributions of Jewish and Islamic philosophers, and the role of women within the tradition. | | | Among his many books are The Third Force in Seventeenth-Century Thought; The History of Skepticism from Erasmus to Spinoza; Introduction to Philosophy (with Avrum Stroll); and The High Road to Pyrrhonism. | | | This volume gives equal attention to both sides of the current rift in philosophy between continental and analytic schools, charting the development of each right up to the end of the 20th century. |
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http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/023110/0231101287.HTM
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| | Chronological map of the great philosophers |
| | Whilst the history of philosophy qua history is not a proper part of philosophy, understanding and responding to the great thinkers of the past who constitute the tradition of the subject is. | | | Part of coming to understand these thinkers is to see how their ideas developed in terms of the philosophers that they were responding to, and how subsequent philosophers went on to respond to them. | | | To that end, History of Philosophy texts can be a useful source of background information. |
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http://www.arts.ed.ac.uk/philosophy/study_html/vade_mecum/sections/section1/map.htm
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| | The Bertrand Russell Gallery |
| | His views were challenged by Wittgenstein, but remain critical as the founding texts of analytic philosophy. | | | There his talents in philosophy and mathematics blossomed and until 1914 he devoted most of his time to these pursuits, becoming a world authority, a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1908 and publishing, with Alfred Whitehead, Principia Mathematica between 1910 and 1913. | | | Shocked by the xenophobic nationalism displayed throughout the war, Russell wrote some of his most important books on political behaviour and philosophy. |
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| | Philosophy Pages |
| | Visitors are welcome to browse and to make fair use of the copyrighted text found on these pages. | | | This site offers helpful information for students of the Western philosophical tradition. | | | A survey of the History of Western Philosophy. |
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| | PHIL 301: History of Western Philosophy: Ancient |
| | As noted in class, a better term for what we will be studying is "ancient Mediterranean philosophy." Ancient Mediterranean philosophy does form part of the history of Western philosophy, but it also forms part of the history of some non-Western philosophy: Islamic philosophy, for example, draws upon and further develops Greek philosophy. | | | It is also helpful to remember that the Greeks and Romans did not see themselves as part of a "Western" culture or civilization; the notion of a "Western" culture or civilization did not exist. | | | Moreover, geographically speaking, the Greeks and Romans saw themselves as at or close to the middle: there was some disagreement among ancient geographers, but they tended to put the center of the earth's surface either at the Nile Delta or at Delphi (in Greece). |
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| | Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Main Page |
| | Although the history of social and cultural elite groups remains important to historians, the lives of non-elite women, people of color, lesbians and gays are also well represented here. | | | Internet History Sourcebooks Project began as a way to access texts that were already available on the Internet, it now contains hundreds of texts made available locally. | | | The Internet Modern History Sourcebook now contains thousands of sources and the previous index pages were so large that they were crashing many browsers. |
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http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html
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| | HISTORY OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY FROM 1492 TO 1776 |
| | This web site is intended for anyone interested in the stars and marvels of the history of philosophy from the 16th through the 18th century. | | | This web site is also the Home Port for a class here at Oregon State University: Phl 302, Great Voyages: the History of Western Philosophy from 1492-1776, Winter 1997. | | | The Course contains materials connected with our class, though some of the reading guides, electronic texts and other materials may well be of some interest. |
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http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302
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| | CLIO: The Columbia History of Western Philosophy.(Review) (book reviews)@ HighBeam Research |
| | The Columbia History of Western Philosophy.(Review) (book reviews) | | | This imposing and beautifully printed volume, with no more than three or four misprints in its eight hundred and fifty large pages, aspires to tell the educated layman all that s/he needs to know about philosophy in Western Europe from Thales to Derrida. | | | CLIO: The Columbia History of Western Philosophy.(Review) (book reviews)@ HighBeam Research |
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http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:58038278&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf
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| | This History of Philosophy |
| | Find More Books on the History of Philosophy | | | Find Used Books on the History of Philosophy | | | The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy |
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http://www.erraticimpact.com/history_index.htm
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| | The University of Montana - Western - History, Philosophy and Social Sciences |
| | Supplemental information about the History, Philosophy and Social Science Department can be viewed by following the links at left. | | | The University of Montana - Western - History, Philosophy and Social Sciences | | | Related areas of emphasis include History, Political Science, Pre-Law, Psychology, Society and Culture, Sociology and Women's Studies. |
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| | VIBS Special Series: Studies in the History of Western Philosophy |
| | It promotes understanding of philosophy as a living activity instead of as a system. | | | Studies in the History of Western Philosophy (SHWP) welcomes historical examinations of the nature and development of Western philosophical activity from ancient Greece onward. | | | It covers all areas of value inquiry, including social and political thought, ethics, applied philosophy, feminism, personalism, pragmatism, religious values, values in education, medical and health values, values in science and technology, humanistic psychology, formal axiology, history of philosophy, post-communist thought, peace theory, law and society, and theory of culture. |
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| | Syllabi -- Modern European Intellectual History |
| | This means that you (1) show up to class on a regular basis and (2) complete your reading assignments on time. | | | The student must be at least familiar with the basic outlines of European history from roughly the 15th century to the present. | | | Although there are a number of other trends/themes which will be developed this semester, the concept of a Weltanschauung is perhaps the most important. |
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http://www.historyguide.org/syllabi/inthist-syl.html
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| | AtomFilms - History of Western Philosophy |
| | Socrates taught Plato, Plato taught Aristotle, and Aristotle turored the son of Phillip of Macedon, who went on to become Alexander the Great, largely by slaughtering a lot of people. | | | You can write catchy tunes about things no one else knows about. | | | From Thales of Miletus in 585 B.C. to Plato to a weakling called Nietzsche, this is the first fun way to learn your philosophy. |
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http://www.atomfilms.com/af/content/western_history
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| | Eastern and Western Philosophy |
| | Philosophy - collection of canonical philosophic texts EServer based at the University of Washington. | | | Political Theory - Government, Law and Society -EServer based at the University of Washington. | | | an electronic archive for preprints in the philosophy of science |
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http://www.uni-giessen.de/%7Egk1415/philosophy.htm
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| | Philosophy by Region |
| | Unit for the History and Philosophy of Science | | | Griffith also seems to have lost its Philosophy Department; any information gratefully received. | | | Philosophy Sites on the Internet (ordered set of links; very useful) |
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