Philosophy The Power of Ideas by Brooke Noel Moore

Overview One of the most widely adopted texts in the field, Philosophy: The Power of Ideas offers a topical introduction to philosophy within an overarching historical framework. The goal of the authors is to make philosophy understandable while not oversimplifying the material, showing that philosophy contains powerful ideas that affect the lives of real people.

Contents

• The Pre-Socratics
• Socrates, Plato
• Aristotle
• Philosophers of the Hellenistic and Christian Eras
• The Rise of Modern Metaphysics and Epistemology
• The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
• The Continental Tradition
• The Pragmatic and Analytic Traditions