A short history of philosophy
(Book)

I. The search for world order : ancient philosophy -- The "Axial period" and the origins of philosophy -- The "miracle" of Greece -- Philosophy, myth, religion, and science -- Meaning and creation : cosmogony and the origins of philosophy -- Vedas and Vedanta : early philosophy in India -- The first (Greek) philosopher -- The pre-Socratic philosophers (I) : the stuff of the world -- The pre-Socratic philosophers (II) : the underlying order -- The pre-Socratic philosophers (III) : the pluralists -- Enter the Sophists -- Socrates -- Plato : metaphysician or sublime humorist? -- The philosopher's philosopher : Aristotle -- A footnote to Plate (and Aristotle) -- Tough times : stoicism, skepticism, and Epicureanism -- Mysticism and logic in ancient India : Nagarjuna and Nyaya -- II. God and the philosophers : religious and medieval philosophy -- Religion and spirituality : three philosophical themes -- The wisdom of the East (I) : Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism -- The wisdom of the East (II) : Confucius and Confucianism -- The wisdom of the East (III) : Lao-tzu, Chuang-tzu, and Taoism -- Deep in the heart of Persia : Zoroastrianism -- From Athens to Jerusalem : Judaism, Christianity, and Islam -- The Hebrew people and the origins of Judaism -- Greek Jew : Philo of Alexandria -- The birth of Christianity -- The opening of Christianity : St. Paul -- Neoplatonism and Christianity -- St. Augustine and the inner life of spirit -- The first great split within Christianity -- The rise of Islam -- Mysticism -- Persia and the peripatetic tradition -- Diaspora, dialectic, and mysticism in Judaism -- Thinking God : Anselm, Abelard, Aquinas, and scholasticism -- Late scholasticism : Duns Scotus and William of Ockham -- In search of essences : the alchemists -- Philosophical syntheses outside the West -- The reformation : Luther and his progeny -- The counter-reformation, Erasmus, and more -- After Aristotle : Bacon, Hobbes, Machiavelli, and the Renaissance -- Before the "discovery" : Africa and the Americas --

III. Between science and religion : modern philosophy and the enlightenment

Science, religion, and the meaning of modernism

Montaigne : the first modern philosopher?

Descartes and the new science

Spinoza, Leibniz, Pascal, and Newton

The enlightenment, colonialism, and the eclipse of the Orient

Locke, Hume, and empiricism

Adam Smith, the moral sentiments, and the Protestant ethic

Voltaire, Rousseau, and revolution

Immanuel Kant : saving science

Kant's moral philosophy and the third Critique

The discovery of history : Hegel

Philosophy and poetry : rationalism and romanticism

Romantic West meets East : Schopenhauer

After Hegel : Kierkegaard, Feuerbach, and Marx

Mill, Darwin, and Nietzsche : consumerism, energy, and evolution

Early philosophy in America

IV. From modernism to postmodernism : the twentieth century

The rejection of idealism : a century of horrors

Frege, Russell, and Husserl : arithmetic, atomism, phenomenology

Zarathustra in the trenches : the limits of rationality

The American experience in philosophy : pragmatism

Changing reality : philosophies of process

Unamuno, Croce, and Heidegger : the tragic sense of life

Hitler, the Holocaust, positivism, and existentialism

No exit : the existentialism of Camus, Sartre, and Beauvoir

From ideal to ordinary language : from Cambridge to Oxford

Women and gender : the feminization of philosophy

The return of the oppressed : Africa, Asia, and the Americas

From postmodernism to the new age

World philosophy : promise or pretense.