HISTORY OF 
WESTERN  PHILOSOPHY 

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• 1 Introduction
• 2 Nature of philosophy
  • 2.1 PHILOSOPHY IN THE WESTERN TRADITION
  • 2.2 GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS
    • 2.2.1 The writing of the history of philosophy.
      • 2.2.1.1 Ways of ordering the history.
      • 2.2.1.2 Factors in writing the history of philosophy.
    • 2.2.2 Shifts in the focus and concern of philosophy.
• 3 Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy
  • 3.1 THE PRE-SOCRATIC PHILOSOPHERS
    • 3.1.1 Cosmology and the metaphysic of matter.
      • 3.1.1.1 Monistic cosmologies.
      • 3.1.1.2 Pluralistic cosmologies.
    • 3.1.2 Epistemology of appearance.
    • 3.1.3 Metaphysic of number.
    • 3.1.4 Anthropology and relativism.
  • 3.2 THE SEMINAL THINKERS OF GREEK PHILOSOPHY
    • 3.2.1 Socrates.
    • 3.2.2 Plato.
      • 3.2.2.1 Life.
      • 3.2.2.2 Philosophy.
    • 3.2.3 Aristotle.
      • 3.2.3.1 Philosophy.
      • 3.2.3.2 Disciples and commentators.
  • 3.3 HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN PHILOSOPHY
    • 3.3.1 Stoics.
    • 3.3.2 Epicureans.
    • 3.3.3 Skeptics.
    • 3.3.4 Neo-Pythagoreans and Neoplatonists.
• 4 Medieval philosophy
  • 4.1 EARLY MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY
    • 4.1.1 Augustine.
    • 4.1.2 Boethius.
    • 4.1.3 Greek Fathers of the Church and Erigena.
    • 4.1.4 Anselm.
    • 4.1.5 Bernard of Clairvaux and Abelard.
  • 4.2 TRANSITION TO SCHOLASTICISM
    • 4.2.1 Arabic thought.
    • 4.2.2 Jewish thought.
  • 4.3 THE AGE OF THE SCHOOLMEN
    • 4.3.1 Robert Grosseteste and Roger Bacon.
    • 4.3.2 William of Auvergne.
    • 4.3.3 Bonaventure.
    • 4.3.4 Albertus Magnus.
    • 4.3.5 Thomas Aquinas.
    • 4.3.6 Averroists.
  • 4.4 PHILOSOPHY IN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES
    • 4.4.1 Duns Scotus.
    • 4.4.2 William of Ockham.
    • 4.4.3 Meister Eckehart.
    • 4.4.4 Nicholas of Cusa.
• 5 Modern philosophy
  • 5.1 THE RENAISSANCE AND EARLY MODERN PERIOD
    • 5.1.1 Dominant strands of Renaissance philosophy.
      • 5.1.1.1 Political theory.
      • 5.1.1.2 Humanism.
      • 5.1.1.3 Philosophy of nature.
    • 5.1.2 Rise of Empiricism and Rationalism.
      • 5.1.2.1 The Empiricism of Francis Bacon.
      • 5.1.2.2 The Materialism of Thomas Hobbes.
      • 5.1.2.3 Rationalism of Descartes.
      • 5.1.2.4 Rationalism of Spinoza and Leibniz.
    • 5.1.3 Literary forms and sociological conditions.
  • 5.2 THE ENLIGHTENMENT
    • 5.2.1 Classical British Empiricism and its basic tasks.
      • 5.2.1.1 Origin and nature of reason in Locke and Berkeley.
      • 5.2.1.2 Basic science of man in Hume.
    • 5.2.2 Nonepistemological movements in the Enlightenment.
      • 5.2.2.1 Materialism and scientific discovery.
      • 5.2.2.2 Social and political philosophy.
      • 5.2.2.3 Professionalization of philosophy.
    • 5.2.3 Critical examination of reason in Kant.
    • 5.2.4 Literary forms.
  • 5.3 THE 19TH CENTURY
    • 5.3.1 German Idealism of Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel.
    • 5.3.2 Positivism and social theory in Comte, Mill, and Marx.
    • 5.3.3 Independent and irrationalist movements.
  • 5.4 THE 20TH CENTURY
    • 5.4.1 Individual philosophies of Bergson, Dewey, and Whitehead.
    • 5.4.2 Marxist thought.
    • 5.4.3 Analytic philosophy.
      • 5.4.3.1 Logical Positivism.
      • 5.4.3.2 Linguistic Analysis.
    • 5.4.4 Continental philosophy.
      • 5.4.4.1 Phenomenology of Husserl and others.
      • 5.4.4.2 Existentialism of Jaspers and Sartre.
    • 5.4.5 Concluding comments.
• 6 Bibliography
  • 6.1 General histories:
  • 6.2 Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy:
  • 6.3 Medieval philosophy:
  • 6.4 Modern and contemporary philosophy:

1 Introduction

This article has three basic purposes: (1) to provide an overview of the history of philosophy in the West; (2) to relate philosophical ideas and movements to their historical background and to the cultural history of their time; and (3) to trace the changing conception of the definition, the function, and the task of philosophy.