JONTENTS
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Philosophy in the Dark Ages: Boethius, Pseudo-Dionvsius, Erigena 146
Bocthius + Pseudo-Dionysius, The Arcopagite
John Scotus Erivena
Early Statements of Major Problems
The Problem of Universals, Bocthius States Problem,
‘Exaggerated Realism,” Nominalism,
Conceptualism + Proving the Existence of God Anselm's
Ontological Argument « Faith and Reason in Arabian
and Jewish Thought + Avicenna. Averroes. Maimonides
I'he Apex of Medieval Philosophy: The Scholastic System of
St. Thomas Aquinas
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His Life « Philosophy and Theology + Proofs of God's
Existence © Knowledge of God's Nature = Creation +
Morality and Natural Law + The State +
Man and Knowledge » Some Reactions to Aquinas
Voluntarism. Nominalism. and Mysticism
PART THREE
I'HE MODERN PERIOD:
PHILOSOPHY AND THE UNFOLDING WORIL.D OF SCIENCE
[0 The Renaissance Interlude
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Early Elements + Erasmus and Luther -
Machiavelli + Montaione « Science
il Advocates of the Method of Science: Bacon and Hobbes
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Francis Bucon Distempers of Learning, Idols of the Mind,
Inductive Method + Thomas Hobbes Influence of
Geometry. Bodies in Motion Are Object of Thought.
Mechanical View of Human Thought, Political
Philosophy and Morality
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Rationalism on the Continent: Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz
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Descartes Methodic Doubt, Existence of Self. Criterion of
Truth. Mind and Body * Spinoza Method, God. Substance