CONTENT§§PREFACE§§CHAPTER 1§LIFE AND INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT§§CHAPTER 2§2 AMO AND THE EUROPEAN ENLIGHTENMENT§2.1 AMO AND THE SPIRIT OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT§2.2 AMO AND PIETISM§§CHAPTER 3§THE PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEM OF AMO§3.1 THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE AND THE MEANING OF THE- THING- IN-ITSELF§3.2 THE CONSTRUCTION OF PHILOSOPHY§3.3 THE METHODOLOGY OF PHILOSOPHY§3.4 THE PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE§3.5 HERMENEUTICS AND THE PROBLEM OF PREJUDICE§§CHAPTER 4§AMO AND MATERIALISM§4.1 THE MATERIALISTIC THOUGHT OF AMO§4.2 DUALISM OF BODY AND SOUL§§CHAPTER 5§CONCLUSION: AMO AND HIS AFRICAN AND EUROPEAN POSTERITY ukryj opis