Handbook Of The Philosophy Of

Free Handbook philosophy.

The Handbook examines the history of philosophy, various philosophical movements, as well as the works of famous philosophers who have made an invaluable contribution to the development of this science. The structure of philosophical knowledge, epistemology, ontology, axiology, aesthetics. Highlights the history of ancient and medieval philosophy, and philosophy of the Renaissance and Enlightenment. In separate chapters we study the history of German and Russian philosophy. A whole section is devoted to the peculiarities of the Eastern philosophy of the ancient East, India, China. Also without attention remained theoretical Foundation of philosophy - being, consciousness, cognition, man and society, philosophy and religion.

It is designed for the systematic repetition of previously learned material. The Handbook cannot replace textbooks and manuals on philosophy, the study of which provides educational programs.

Contents:

- Philosophy, its problems and role in society.

- The concept of ideology and its structure. Historical forms of ideology.

- Cosmocentrism and natural philosophy of the ancient Greeks.

- The problem of man in ancient philosophy. The moral philosophy of Socrates.

- The doctrine of Plato about ideas.

- Aristotle's doctrine of matter and form.

- Medieval Western philosophy. Patristics and scholasticism.

- The characteristics of the philosophy of the Renaissance.