Symbiotic Panentheism in light of Western Philosophy - Q & A

 

 

Part I of II

 

Prologue

Western Philosophical Development                                             

1.      Introduction

2.      Before the Pre-Socratics

3.      The Pre-Socratics

4.      The Invention of Philosophy

5.      The Eleatics

6.      Empedocles, Plurality, and Greek Atomism

7.      The Sophists

8.      Socrates

9.      Plato

10.  Pythagoras

11.  Aristotle

12.  Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy

13.  The Skeptics

14.  Medieval Philosophy

15.  Saint Augustine / Augustine of Hippo

16.  Boethius / Anicius Manlius Severinus

17.  Saint Anselm / Anselm of Canterbury

18.  Saint Thomas Aquinas

19.  William Ockham

20.  The Collapse of Scholasticism

21.  The Renaissance

22.  Political Philosophy

23.  Niccoló Machiavelli

24.  Thomas Hobbes

25.  René Descartes

26.  Rationalism

27.  Baruch Spinoza

28.  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

29.  Isaac Newton

30.  John Locke

31.  George Berkeley

32.  David Hume

33.  George Wilhelm Hegel

34.  Soren Kierkegaard

35.  The American & British Idealists

36.  Jeremy Bentham & John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism

37.  Fredrich Nietzsche

38.  Logic and Mathematical Foundations: Logical Positivism

39.  Karl Popper

40.  Ludwig Wittgenstein

41.  Symbiotic Panentheism

 

The numbering system is left intact to facilitate the reader’s ability to quickly cross check the context from which the questions are extracted. Both the numbered table of contents and the panel orientation are provided.

 

The questions are at times expressed as addressing issues regarding a particular philosopher and at other times the questions appear to be addressing issues regarding a subject area of philosophy as opposed to originating from an individual. The reason subject areas of philosophy are included as focal points is due to the understanding that subject areas represent the perceptions of groups composed of individuals as opposed to being a single individual. As such a group of individuals have as much impact upon philosophy as do individuals themselves.

 

To be continued: Part II of II:  As the questions and answers progress, one will begin to understand how...