From Rationalism to Existentialism: The Existentialists and Their Nineteenth-century BackgroundsIn this enduring text, renowned philosopher Robert C. Solomon provides students with a detailed introduction to modern existentialism. He reveals how this philosophy not only connects with, but derives from, the thought of traditional philosophers through the works of Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty. Thus, existentialism emerges from the school of rational thought as a logical evolution of respected philosophy. |
Contents
Immanuel Kant The Problems of Metaphysics and Morals | 7 |
The Critique of Pure Reason and the Problem of Metaphysics | 12 |
Transcendental Arguments | 13 |
The Copernican Revolution | 17 |
The Transcendental Ego | 19 |
The Dialectic | 21 |
Morality and Metaphysics | 23 |
Freedom The First Principle of Practical Reason | 28 |
Bibliography | 136 |
The Twentieth Century Phenomenology and Existentialism | 139 |
Edmund Husserl and Phenomenology The New Way of Philosophy | 141 |
The Philosophy of Arithmetic Frege and Psychologism | 145 |
Phenomenology and the Foundations of Philosophy | 148 |
The Object of Phenomenological Investigation | 152 |
the Epoche | 155 |
Intentionality Objects and Acts of Consciousness | 164 |
God and Immortality | 32 |
Bibliography | 35 |
G W F Hegel Spirit and Absolute Truth | 37 |
The Purpose of Hegels System | 43 |
The Phenomenology of Spirit | 46 |
Knowledge of ThingsinThemselves | 48 |
Spirit | 50 |
Consciousness and the Dialectic | 53 |
Master and Slave | 58 |
Reason | 60 |
The Logic and Absolute Knowledge | 61 |
Bibliography | 65 |
Søren Kierkegaard Faith and the Subjective Individual | 67 |
Kierkegaards Life as Related to His Thought | 70 |
Kierkegaard on Christianity | 71 |
The Attack on Hegelianism | 75 |
The Meaning of Existence | 82 |
The Dialectic and the Spheres of Existence | 88 |
The Aesthetic Sphere | 91 |
The Ethical Sphere | 92 |
The Relationship Between the Aesthetic and the Ethical | 94 |
Becoming a Christian The Religious Way of Life | 96 |
Freedom and Subjectivity | 99 |
Bibliography | 102 |
Friedrich Nietzsche Nihilism and the Will to Power | 103 |
Nietzsches Writings | 104 |
The Attack on Systematic Philosophy | 106 |
Values and Nihilism | 109 |
Epistemological Nihilism | 110 |
The Death of God | 113 |
The Nature of Morality | 115 |
Morality Reason and Passion | 118 |
The Will to Power | 123 |
Slave Morality and Master Morality | 128 |
The Übermensch | 132 |
Eternal Recurrence | 134 |
Nietzsches Place In History | 135 |
An Unresolved Problem | 172 |
Bibliography | 180 |
Martin Heidegger Being and Being Human | 182 |
What Is Philosophy? | 184 |
The Problem of Being | 189 |
The Fallenness from Being | 191 |
Heidegger Husserl and Phenomenology | 193 |
Dasein as BeingintheWorld | 196 |
The World as Equipment | 201 |
Care | 205 |
Possibility and Understanding | 208 |
Facticity and Being Tuned | 211 |
Fallenness and das Man | 213 |
Fallenness and Angst | 216 |
BeingUntoDeath | 221 |
Heideggers Ethics | 225 |
Being and Truth | 230 |
Logic Language and Nothing | 236 |
Godless Theology | 239 |
Bibliography | 241 |
JeanPaul Sartre and French Existentialism | 243 |
The Phenomenological Pursuit of Being | 246 |
The Transcendence of the Ego | 254 |
BeingforItself | 256 |
Nothingness | 263 |
Absurdity and Value | 270 |
Action Intention and Emotion | 277 |
Bad Faith | 286 |
BeingforOthers | 300 |
My Body | 306 |
Relations with Other People | 308 |
Existentialist Ethics | 311 |
Bibliography | 321 |
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Index | 345 |
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