Moore, Brooke Noel <br/><br/>
Philosophy:   the power of ideas / 
Brooke Noel Moore and Kenneth Bruder. 
 - Fifth edition 
 - Boston:  McGraw-Hill,  2002. 
 - xxiii, 563 pages:  illustrations;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes glossary and index. 
<br/><br/>Chapter 1: Powerful ideas -- Part 1: Metaphysics and epistemology: existence and knowledge -- Chapter 2: The pre-Socratics -- Chapter 3: Socrates, Plato -- Chapter 4: Aristotle -- Chapter 5: Philosophers of the Hellenistic and Christian Eras -- Chapter 6: The rise of modern metaphysics and epistemology -- Chapter 7: The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Chapter 8: The continental tradition -- Chapter 9: The pragmatic and analytic traditions -- Part 2: Moral and political philosophy -- Chapter 10: Moral philosophy -- Chapter 11: Political philosophy -- Chapter 12: Recent moral and political philosophy -- Part 3: Philosophy or religion: reason and faith -- Chapter 13: Philosophy and belief in God -- Part 4: Other voices -- Chapter 14: Feminist philosophy -- Chapter 15: An era of suspicion -- Chapter 16: Eastern influences -- Chapter 17: Postcolonial thought 
<br/><br/> This volume 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 it contains powerful ideas that affect the lives of real people. - From the Book 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780767420112 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Philosophy--Introductions.<br/>Philosophy--History.