Fundamentals of Western Philosophy - E-book - ePub

"Fundamentals of Western Philosophy" is a comprehensive review of the principles underlying the four primary disciplines of Western Philosophy: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics, and Political Philosophy. This work includes detailed examinations of the ideas put forth by such influential thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, George Berkeley, John Locke, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Arthur Schopenhauer, Bertrand Russell, Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Stuart Mill, and Alexis de Tocqueville.
The work also includes in-depth, chapter-by-chapter reviews of many of Western Philosophy's most essential writings, which include:- Apology/Republic (Plato)- Nicomachean Ethics/Politics (Aristotle)- Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (Kant)- Utilitarianism/On Liberty (Mill)- The Problems of Philosophy (Russell)- The Prince (Machiavelli)- Leviathan (Hobbes)- Two Treatises of Government (Locke)- The Social Contract/The Second Discourse (Rousseau)- Democracy in America (Tocqueville)- And more