Overview
- Offers a new way of thinking about the history of philosophy
- Focusses on the questions of meaning and being
- Explores how the answers to these questions have changed throughout the history of philosophy
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This book presents philosophy as a historical series of answers to two questions: the meaning question (what does it all mean?) and the reality question (what is real rather than illusory?). Presenting philosophy as a historical series of answers to these two questions gives a new view of philosophy. It reveals a coherence between the disparate problems of philosophy which is not apparent when philosophy is approached in a systematic and timeless manner.
On the basis of this historical approach, the book argues that philosophy was initially concerned primarily with the nature of reality but changed its focus when science was established as a separate discipline in the 17th century. Philosophy’s main concern is now the meaning question with a focus on questions of value as discussed in moral and political philosophy and in aesthetics.
This book is essential reading for all scholars and researchers in philosophy and especially those interested in the history of philosophy.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Ulrich Steinvorth is a Professor Emeritus of the University of Hamburg, Germany. He has published books and papers in German, English and French, in political philosophy, ethics, and metaphysics, and has taught philosophy at universities in Germany, France, Turkey, Japan and China.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Brief Presentation of Philosophy and Its History
Book Subtitle: Two Basic Questions
Authors: Ulrich Steinvorth
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-72533-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-72532-6Published: 29 November 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-72533-3Published: 28 November 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 96
Topics: History of Philosophy, Philosophy, general