{"product_id":"philosophy-from-the-pre-socratics-to-post-structuralism-9798246828700","title":"PHILOSOPHY - From the Pre-Socratics to Post-Structuralism","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Textus Receptus English Edition | Diagramhouse Illustration | Css Editora Civis Studio Sapientia\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Ancient - Greece\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePHILOSOPHY - From the Pre-Socratics to Post-Structuralism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the first questions of the \u003cb\u003ePre-Socratics\u003c\/b\u003e to the intricate debates of \u003cb\u003epost-structuralism\u003c\/b\u003e, this volume presents a complete and continuous arc of Western philosophical thought in a single work. \u003ci\u003ePHILOSOPHY: From the Pre-Socratics to Post-Structuralism\u003c\/i\u003e traces the long movement from myth to rational explanation, from cosmos to subject, from system to critique, showing how ideas of \u003cb\u003ebeing\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003etruth\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003efreedom\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003epower\u003c\/b\u003e were formed, challenged, and transformed over more than two millennia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStructured in four parts and twenty-five chapters, the book unfolds with historical rigor and conceptual clarity. It begins with \u003cb\u003eThales\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eHeraclitus\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eParmenides\u003c\/b\u003e, and the first cosmologies, advances through \u003cb\u003eSocrates\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003ePlato\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eAristotle\u003c\/b\u003e, and explores philosophy as a way of life in \u003cb\u003eStoicism\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eEpicureanism\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eSkepticism\u003c\/b\u003e. The transition to Late Antiquity and \u003cb\u003eNeoplatonism\u003c\/b\u003e reveals philosophy as both metaphysical inquiry and spiritual discipline.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe medieval world is treated as a complex intellectual landscape rather than a mere bridge between antiquity and modernity. \u003cb\u003eAugustine\u003c\/b\u003e, Byzantine thinkers, and Islamic and Jewish philosophers appear alongside the Latin scholastic tradition, where questions of \u003cb\u003efaith and reason\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003elaw and universals\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003enature and creation\u003c\/b\u003e are systematically examined. Scholasticism, nominalism, and humanism are presented as responses to deep crises of authority, knowledge, and meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe early modern transformation marks a decisive shift. The \u003cb\u003eScientific Revolution\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eRationalism\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eEmpiricism\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eSocial Contract theory\u003c\/b\u003e, and the \u003cb\u003eEnlightenment\u003c\/b\u003e are shown as interconnected attempts to reconstruct knowledge, subjectivity, and political legitimacy. \u003cb\u003eDescartes\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eSpinoza\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eLocke\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eHume\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eRousseau\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eKant\u003c\/b\u003e emerge within a shared debate on certainty, experience, freedom, and moral autonomy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe nineteenth and twentieth centuries introduce powerful systems and radical critiques. \u003cb\u003eGerman Idealism\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003ePositivism\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eMarxism\u003c\/b\u003e, the \u003cb\u003ephilosophy of suspicion\u003c\/b\u003e (\u003cb\u003eNietzsche\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eFreud\u003c\/b\u003e), \u003cb\u003ePhenomenology\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eHermeneutics\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eExistentialism\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eCritical Theory\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003ePragmatism\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eAnalytic philosophy\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eStructuralism\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eDeconstruction\u003c\/b\u003e are each examined in their internal logic and historical impact. 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