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035			_a(OCoLC)20862900 _z(OCoLC)1027242027 _z(OCoLC)1119501057
050	0	0	_aBD21 _b.F59 1989
082	0	0	_a190 _220
092			_a190 _bF618ir
100	1		_aFlew, Antony, _d1923-2010.
245	1	3	_aAn introduction to Western philosophy : _bideas and argument from Plato to Popper / _cAntony Flew.
250			_aRev. ed.
260			_aNew York, N.Y. : _bThames and Hudson, _c1989.
300			_a511 pages ; _c23 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 491-498).
505	0	0	_tStarting with Plato -- _tTheory of Forms -- _tPlato's own criticism of that theory -- _tPlato and the longing for objective values -- _tWhat objectivism and subjectivism, in our broad senses, do and do not involve -- _tSubjectivism of Hume -- _tHumean critique applied to four kinds of objectivism -- _tSubjectivism, in a narrower sense, refuted -- _tUltimate ends and intrinsic values -- _tMaking room for moral argument -- _tPresuppostions of pre-existence and immortality -- _tFrom the Forms to immortality -- _tSoul and the person -- _tAristotle and a materialist view of man -- _tAristotle and Aquinas -- _tImpossibility and contradiction -- _tFaith and reason -- _tStratonician presumption -- _tOntological argument -- _tFirst Mover -- _tCosmological arguments -- _tArguments to design -- _tAppeal to personal experience -- _tPascal's wager -- _tElementary ideas -- _tAristotelian conservatism: splitting hairs not starting hares -- _tRadical onslaughts: predestination -- _tRadical onslaughts: hard determinism -- _tNecessity, avoidability, and foreknowledge -- _tLaws and inevitability -- _tChoice and desire -- _tMethod for a new beginning -- _tProtestant individualism secularized -- _tCartesian foundations for knowledge -- _tRationalist vision -- _tGhost in the machine -- _tHume opposes Descartes -- _tTwo conditions of authentic doubt -- _tInexpressible doubt and logically private language -- _tPossible error and actual knowledge -- _tCertainty and conception, clear and distinct -- _tRepresentative and causal theories -- _tIdealist vision of George Berkeley -- _tAgnosticism of Hume and Kant -- _tArgument from illusion -- _tSeeing things and having experiences -- _tPhilosophical analyses and scientific accounts -- _tMathematics and the rationalist hope -- _tHume's fork -- _tArguments from experience -- _tProposed epistemological foundations for mathematics -- _tNature of the apriori -- _tLogical and the psychological -- _tMathematics, pure and applied -- _tConfronting Plato with Locke -- _tGeneral words and Locke's abstract general images -- _tTwo tests for souls and two concepts of soul -- _tClassifications as a human activity -- _tEssence and existence (i) existentialism -- _tEssence and existence (ii) essentialism -- _t'Scientific socialism' and social science -- _tLinguistic philosophy and philosophy.
520			_aAristotle and Aquinas - Pascal - Descartes and the Cartesian revolution - Hume - The logical and the psychological - Plato and Locke; Kant - Leibniz - The soul.
650		0	_aPhilosophy _vIntroductions.
650		7	_aPhilosophy. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01060777
650		7	_aGeschichte _2gnd
650		7	_aPhilosophie _2gnd
651		7	_aWestliche Welt _2gnd
650	1	7	_aFilosofie. _2gtt
650		7	_aPhilosophie _xHistoire. _2ram
650		7	_a _2gnd
655		7	_aIntroductions. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01423833
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