Kurzbeschreibung:

What is reality? Ask yourself whether you can actually know the answer, much less be sure that you can know it, and youve begun to grapple with the metaphysical and epistemological quandaries that have occupied, teased, and tormented modern philosophys greatest intellects since the dawn of modern science and a century before the Enlightenment.
These 36 lectures are the perfect introduction to the basics of modern and contemporary Western approaches to the philosophies of both reality (metaphysics) and knowledge (epistemology), right through the end of the 20th century. Led by Professor Cahoone, youll partake in an engaging intellectual journey that encompasses prominent figures from all the major traditions of Western philosophy.
Youll explore the ideas behind modern philosophys most important movements, including dualism, rationalism, empiricism, idealism, existentialism, and postmodernism. Youll plunge into the thought of some of philosophys most important thinkers, including Descartes, Locke, Spinoza, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Peirce, Nietzsche, James, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Rorty, and Derrida, learning how many of them were in fact considered radicals, their views appreciated far less in their own era than in later ones.
And youll gain a clear sense of how each of these movements and thinkers fits into philosophys broader progression, often pushing philosophy in dramatically new directions right up to the present day, as well as how philosophy is intimately related to a multitude of other disciplines.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.