TY  - BOOK
AU  - Flew,Antony
TI  - An introduction to Western philosophy: ideas and argument from Plato to Popper 
SN  - 0500275475
AV  - BD21 .F59 1989
U1  - 190 20
PY  - 1989///
CY  - New York, N.Y.
PB  - Thames and Hudson
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Introductions
KW  - fast
KW  - Geschichte
KW  - gnd
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - Filosofie
KW  - gtt
KW  - Histoire
KW  - ram
KW  - Westliche Welt
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 491-498); Starting with Plato --; Theory of Forms --; Plato's own criticism of that theory --; Plato and the longing for objective values --; What objectivism and subjectivism, in our broad senses, do and do not involve --; Subjectivism of Hume --; Humean critique applied to four kinds of objectivism --; Subjectivism, in a narrower sense, refuted --; Ultimate ends and intrinsic values --; Making room for moral argument --; Presuppostions of pre-existence and immortality --; From the Forms to immortality --; Soul and the person --; Aristotle and a materialist view of man --; Aristotle and Aquinas --; Impossibility and contradiction --; Faith and reason --; Stratonician presumption --; Ontological argument --; First Mover --; Cosmological arguments --; Arguments to design --; Appeal to personal experience --; Pascal's wager --; Elementary ideas --; Aristotelian conservatism: splitting hairs not starting hares --; Radical onslaughts: predestination --; Radical onslaughts: hard determinism --; Necessity, avoidability, and foreknowledge --; Laws and inevitability --; Choice and desire --; Method for a new beginning --; Protestant individualism secularized --; Cartesian foundations for knowledge --; Rationalist vision --; Ghost in the machine --; Hume opposes Descartes --; Two conditions of authentic doubt --; Inexpressible doubt and logically private language --; Possible error and actual knowledge --; Certainty and conception, clear and distinct --; Representative and causal theories --; Idealist vision of George Berkeley --; Agnosticism of Hume and Kant --; Argument from illusion --; Seeing things and having experiences --; Philosophical analyses and scientific accounts --; Mathematics and the rationalist hope --; Hume's fork --; Arguments from experience --; Proposed epistemological foundations for mathematics --; Nature of the apriori --; Logical and the psychological --; Mathematics, pure and applied --; Confronting Plato with Locke --; General words and Locke's abstract general images --; Two tests for souls and two concepts of soul --; Classifications as a human activity --; Essence and existence (i) existentialism --; Essence and existence (ii) essentialism --; 'Scientific socialism' and social science --; Linguistic philosophy and philosophy
N2  - Aristotle and Aquinas - Pascal - Descartes and the Cartesian revolution - Hume - The logical and the psychological - Plato and Locke; Kant - Leibniz - The soul
ER  -