The Many Faces of Philosophy: Reflections from Plato to Arendt

545 Pages·2003·2.35 MB·English

by  Amélie Oksenberg Rorty

The Many Faces of
Philosophy: Reflections
from Plato to Arendt
Amélie Oksenberg Rorty
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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Many Faces of Philosophy
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The Many Faces
of Philosophy
Reflections from Plato to Arendt
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2003
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Contents
Preface xi
Introduction: Witnessing Philosophers xiii
I. From Plato to Maimonides
1. Plato 1
A Philosopher Educates a Tyrant
2. Seneca 8
Philosophy as a Guide to Life
3. Augustine 14
Two Cities: Two Roads to Knowledge
4. Al Ghazali 33
My Life
5. Abelard and Heloise 42
Calamities and Credos
6. Moses Maimonides 50
Why I Write...and How I Write
II. From Bacon to Hume
7. Francis Bacon 61
How to Think Well
8. Rene´ Descartes 84
Moving Toward Clarity
and Adrien Baillet, Descartes’ Dream
9. Blaise Pascal 106
The Limits of Thought
10. Thomas Hobbes 114
“Justice I Teach, and Reverence Justice”
and John Aubrey, “The Life of Hobbes”
11. Baruch Spinoza 135
Wisdom and the Improvement of the Understanding
12. John Locke 144
The Origins of Philosophical Ideas
13. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 152
God, Mind, and Logic
viii Contents
14. George Berkeley 174
Philosophy Does Not Need Abstract Ideas
15. David Hume 183
My Life
and Adam Smith, “Mr. David Hume”
III. From Vico to Schopenhauer
16. Giambattista Vico 205
Imagination, Language, and the Inventions of Philosophy
17. Voltaire 213
Good Sense and Nonsense
18. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 219
Meditations on My Troubled Heart
19. Denis Diderot 233
Clarity Against Dogmatic Superstition
20. Immanuel Kant 245
The Tasks of Philosophy
21. Johann Gottfried Herder 261
Culture and the Stages of the Imagination
22. Johann Gottlieb Fichte 271
Idealism and Self-Reflection
23. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 287
The New Science of Philosophy
24. Arthur Schopenhauer 301
Vitality and the Tasks of Life
IV. From Bentham to Russell
25. Jeremy Bentham 317
Accounting for Rationality
26. John Stuart Mill 326
Education and Social Progress
27. Karl Marx 339
Philosophy as Political Critique
and Friedrich Engels, Speech at the Graveside of Marx
28. Søren Kierkegaard 345
The Many Faces of an Author
29. Friedrich Nietzsche 356
Overcoming My Life
30. Charles Sanders Peirce 366
Autobiographical Note
31. William James 370
Philosophy and Emergent Morality
Contents ix
32. John Dewey 385
From Absolutism to Experimentalism
33. George Santayana 394
My Host the World
34. Bertrand Russell 401
Why I Became a Philosopher
V. From Wittgenstein to Appiah
35. Ludwig Wittgenstein 415
Logical Arrangements
36. Martin Heidegger 423
My Way to Phenomenology
37. Rudolph Carnap 434
Autobiography
38. Jean-Paul Sartre 451
Self-Portrait at Seventy
39. Simone de Beauvoir 458
Writing a Life of Writing
40. Takatura Ando 465
A Philosopher in the Midst of War
41. Hans-Georg Gadamer 467
Philosophical Apprenticeships
42. Hannah Arendt 472
Thinking Through the Good Life
43. Isaiah Berlin 482
My Intellectual Path
44. G.E.M. Anscombe 498
My Interests in Philosophy
45. Kwame Anthony Appiah 503
The Many Sources of Philosophic Reflection
Credits 509