The Many Faces of Philosophy : Reflections from Plato to Arendt.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Witnessing Philosophers -- I. From Plato to Maimonides -- 1. Plato: A Philosopher Educates a Tyrant -- 2. Seneca: Philosophy as a Guide to Life -- 3. Augustine: Two Cities: Two Roads to Knowledge -- 4. Al Ghazali: My Life -- 5. Abelard and Heloise: Calamities and Credos -- 6. Moses Maimonides: Why I Write ... and How I Write -- II. From Bacon to Hume -- 7. Francis Bacon: How to Think Well -- 8. René Descartes: Moving Toward Clarity and Adrien Baillet, Descartes' Dream -- 9. Blaise Pascal: The Limits of Thought -- 10. Thomas Hobbes: "Justice I Teach, and Reverence Justice" and John Aubrey, "The Life of Hobbes" -- 11. Baruch Spinoza: Wisdom and the Improvement of the Understanding -- 12. John Locke: The Origins of Philosophical Ideas -- 13. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: God, Mind, and Logic -- 14. George Berkeley: Philosophy Does Not Need Abstract Ideas -- 15. David Hume: My Life and Adam Smith, "Mr. David Hume" -- III. From Vico to Schopenhauer -- 16. Giambattista Vico: Imagination, Language, and the Inventions of Philosophy -- 17. Voltaire: Good Sense and Nonsense -- 18. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Meditations on My Troubled Heart -- 19. Denis Diderot: Clarity Against Dogmatic Superstition -- 20. Immanuel Kant: The Tasks of Philosophy -- 21. Johann Gottfried Herder: Culture and the Stages of the Imagination -- 22. Johann Gottlieb Fichte: Idealism and Self-Reflection -- 23. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: The New Science of Philosophy -- 24. Arthur Schopenhauer: Vitality and the Tasks of Life -- IV. From Bentham to Russell -- 25. Jeremy Bentham: Accounting for Rationality -- 26. John Stuart Mill: Education and Social Progress -- 27. Karl Marx: Philosophy as Political Critique and Friedrich Engels, Speech at the Graveside of Marx -- 28. Søren Kierkegaard: The Many Faces of an Author.

29. Friedrich Nietzsche: Overcoming My Life -- 30. Charles Sanders Peirce: Autobiographical Note -- 31. William James: Philosophy and Emergent Morality -- 32. John Dewey: From Absolutism to Experimentalism -- 33. George Santayana: My Host the World -- 34. Bertrand Russell: Why I Became a Philosopher -- V. From Wittgenstein to Appiah -- 35. Ludwig Wittgenstein: Logical Arrangements -- 36. Martin Heidegger: My Way to Phenomenology -- 37. Rudolph Carnap: Autobiography -- 38. Jean-Paul Sartre: Self-Portrait at Seventy -- 39. Simone de Beauvoir: Writing a Life of Writing -- 40. Takatura Ando: A Philosopher in the Midst of War -- 41. Hans-Georg Gadamer: Philosophical Apprenticeships -- 42. Hannah Arendt: Thinking Through the Good Life -- 43. Isaiah Berlin: My Intellectual Path -- 44. G.E.M. Anscombe: My Interests in Philosophy -- 45. Kwame Anthony Appiah: The Many Sources of Philosophic Reflection -- Credits.

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