Synopsis of Western Philosophy
By Tom Maguire
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OVERVIEW
CULTURES IN THE AEGEAN after 2,500 BC
- The Theogony by Hesiod
- The Iliad by Homer
- The Odyssey by Homer
THE PRESOCRATICS (7th - 5th cent. BC)
- Histories by Herodotus
- Fragments by Heraclitus
- The Parthenon
- The Persians by Aeschylus
THE SOCRATICS (5th - 4th cent. BC)
- Memorabilia by Xenophon
- The Republic by Plato
- Gorgias by Plato
- The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
- Politics by Aristotle
- History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD (3rd.BC - 1st. AD)
- Republic by Zeno of Citium
- Letter to Menoeceus by Epicurus
- On the Crown by Demosthenes
- The Epistles by Paul of Tarsus
- Jesus of Nazareth by the 4 Evangelists
- The Axial Age
- The Silk Roads
THE ROMANS (1st.BC - 5th.AD)
- Letters to Lucillus by Seneca
- The Six Enneads by Plotinus
- De rerum natura by Lucretius
- The City of God by Augustine of Hippo
- The Pantheon (Rome)
EASTERN MIDDLE AGES (6th - 12th. cent.)
- The Cure (al-Shifāʾ) by Avicenna
- A Guide for the Perplexed by Maimonides
- Commentaries on Aristotle by Averroes
WESTERN MIDDLE AGES (6th. - 13th.)
- The Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas
- Commentaries by Duns Scotus
- Ars Magna by Ramón Llull
- The Divine Comedy by Dante
- The Decameron by Boccaccio
RENAISSANCE Italy (12th - 14th)
- Oration on the Dignity of Man by Pico della Mirandola
- The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
- 'The School of Athens' by Raphael
- The Sistine Chapel paintings by Michelangelo
- The Florence Duomo Dome by Brunelleschi
RENAISSANCE: Rest of Europe (14th)
- The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
- Chroniques by Jean Froissart
- De Ecclesia by Jan Hus
MODERN: Northern Europe 15th & 16th.)
- Praise Of Folly by Erasmus
- Utopia by Thomas More
- Novum Organum by Francis Bacon
- Macbeth by Shakespeare
MODERN: Southern Europe (15th - 16th.)
- Spanish Mystics' writings
- Essays by Montaigne
- Don Quixote by Cervantes
AGE OF REASON: N. Europe (17th.)
- Leviathan by Hobbes
- Essay Concerning Human Understanding by Locke
- Ethics by Spinoza
- Monadology by Leibniz
AGE OF REASON: Southern Europe (17th.)
- Discourse on Method by Descartes
- Meditations on First Philosophy by Descartes
- Pensées by Pascal
- De la recherche de la vérité by Malebranche
THE ENLIGHTENMENT: N. Europe, (18th)
- Treatise on the Principles of Human Knowledge by Berkeley
- Treatise on Human Nature by Hume
- The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith
- Critique of Pure Reason by Kant
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
THE ENLIGHTENMENT : S. Europe (18th.)
- Discours Préliminaire de l'Encyclopédie by Jean le Rond d'Alembert
- L' Encyclopédie by The Encyclopedists
- De L'Esprit Des Lois by Montesquieu
- Candide by Voltaire
CONTEMPORARY N. EUROPE (19th.)
- The Philosophy of World History by Hegel
- Capital by Marx
- Hard Times by Dickens
CONTEMPORARY S. EUROPE (19th.)
CONTEMPORARY N. EUROPE (20th.)
- The Protestant Ethic and The Spirit Of Capitalism by Max Weber
CONTEMPORARY S. EUROPE (20th.)
CONTEMPORARY - USA (19th & 20th)
CONTEMPORARY: QUANTUM MECHANICS (20th cent.)
SYNTHESIS
- Philosophies and Truth
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The history of western thought can be traced following the different syntheses along its path because the progression of philosophical idea...
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