Contents:

The nature of philosophy --Philosophy as dialectic / Plato --The ideal of self-realization / Aristotle --The cosmic community / Marcus Aurelius --Happiness and the love of God / St. Augustine --The moral law / Immanuel Kant --Pleasure as the good / John Stuart Mill --The energies of men / William James --Free will / G.E. Moore --Knowledge and the eternal ideas / Plato --The quest for certainty / Rene� Descartes --Knowledge and experience / David Hume --Knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description / Bertrand Russell --Reflective thinking / John Dewey --Language and meaning / Ludwig Wittgenstein --The elimination of metaphysics / Alfred J. Ayer --Performative utterances / J.L. Austin --Being and substance / Aristotle --Materialistic atomism / Lucretius --The pre-established harmony / G.W. Leibniz --To be is to be perceived / George Berkeley --Revolution in metaphysics / Immanuel Kant --Existence and poetry / Martin Heidegger --The ontological argument / St. Anselm --The five ways / St. Thomas Aquinas --Religion as detachment / Meister Eckhart --Religion as illusion / Ludwig Feuerbach --Religion and science / Alfred N. Whitehead --Religion and philosophy / Martin Buber --The natural law / St. Thomas Aquinas --The origin and nature of the state / Thomas Hobbes --The natural rights of man / John Locke --The problem of factionalism / James Madison --The state and the destiny of the world / G.W.F. Hegel --Dialectical materialism / Joseph Stalin --The art form of tragedy / Aristotle --Of the standard of taste / David Hume --On the nature of art / Leo Tolstoy --The nature of beauty / George Santayana --Methods of knowing / Charles Pierce --Scientific method and the advance of science / James B. Conant --Scientific theory and falsifiability / Karl Popper --On scientific explanation / John Hospers.