Plato: the world is the handiwork of a mind
Plato: this world is not our home
The platonic tradition: the stoics, plotinus, pseudo-dionysius
Aristotle: his categories and the mystery of god
Aristotle and the creation of scholastic theology
Aquinas' program and two critics: karl barth and process theology
The beginnings of the modem world: nominalism, humanism
The scientific revolution
Early modem philosophy: rationalism, empiricism, the enlightenment
Kant and the limits of knowledge
Hegel and the restoration of optimism
The search for meaning in contemporary philosophy:
Existentialism, phenomenology, and, hermeneutics
Postmodernism: truth, objectivity and certainty
Postmodernism: moral philosophy.