Philosophy : For Beginners

Contents: 1. What is philosophy? 2. Greece Thales. 3. Rome stoicism. 4. Early Christianity Philo. 5. Medieval religious philosophy Holy Roman Empire. 6. The renaissance Machiavelli. 7. Reformation and counter-reformation Martin Luther. 8. Enlightenment Copernicus. 9. Idealism Fichte. 10. Romantic reaction Schopenhauer. 11. Materialism Feuerbach. 12. Sui Generis Nietzsche. 13. Utilitarianism Bentham. 14. Positivism Comte. 15. Eclecticism Spencer. 16. American Philosophy Pierce. 17. The irrational Bergson. 18. Logic Frege. 19. Language Wittgenstein. 20. Phenomenology and existentialism Husserl. 21. Marxists Luxemburg. 22. Linguistics, seminology structuralism saussure. 

"Why does philosophy give some people a headache, others a real buzz and yet others a feeling that it is subversive and dangerous? Why do a lot of people think philosophy is totally irrelevant? What is philosophy anyway?

The ABCs of philosophy -- easy to understand but never simplistic. Beginning with basic questions posed by the ancient Greeks: What is the world made of? What is man? What is knowledge? What is good and evil? This guide traces the development of these questions as the key to understanding how western philosophy developed over the last 2,500 years."