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Overview
From the famous ancient Greek thinkers to the brilliant minds of today, The Little Book of Philosophy provides a brief, chronological introduction to philosophy, including topics such as moral ethics and philosophies of religion.
The book is divided into four chapters that cover not only the big ideas but the philosophers who first voiced them, as well as cross-referencing with earlier and later ideas and thinkers. This small but comprehensive volume untangles knotty theories and sheds light on abstract concepts with the use of powerful and easy-to-follow images, famous quotations, and explanations that are easily understandable.
The Little Book of Philosophy is perfect for anyone with a general interest in how our social, political, and ethical ideas are formed, as well as students of philosophy and politics.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781465475565 |
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| Publisher: | DK |
| Publication date: | 05/01/2018 |
| Series: | DK Little Book of |
| Pages: | 208 |
| Sales rank: | 1,070,643 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.80(d) |
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Table of Contents
Introduction 6
The Ancient World 700 BSE-250 CE
Everything is made of water Thales of Miletus 16
Number is the ruler of forms and ideas Pythagoras 18
Man Is the measure of all things Protagoras 22
The life which is unexamined is not worth living Socrates 24
Earthly knowledge is but shadow Plato 28
Truth resides in the world around us Aristotle 32
Death is nothing to us Epicurus 38
Medieval and Renaissance Thought 250-1750
The soul is distinct from the body Avicenna 42
The universe has not always existed Thomas Aquinas 48
The end justifies the means Niccolò Machiavelli 52
Knowledge is power Francis Bacon 56
Man is a machine Thomas Hobbes 58
I think therefore I am René Descartes 62
Imagination decides everything Blaise Pascal 68
God is the cause of all things, which are in him Benedictus Spinoza 70
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience John Locke 74
There are two kinds of truths: truths of reasoning and truths of fact Gottfried Leibniz 78
To be is to be perceived George Berkeley 82
The Age of Revolution 1750-1900
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd Voltaire 88
Custom is the great guide of human life David Hume 90
Man was born free yet everywhere he is in chains Jean-Jacques Rousseau 94
Man is an animal that makes bargains Adam Smith 98
There are two worlds: our bodies and the external world Immanuel Kant 102
The greatest happiness for the greatest number Jeremy Bentham 108
What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is Johann Gottlieb Fichte 109
Reality is a historical process Georg Hegel 110
About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy Friedrich Schlegel 116
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world Arthur Schopenhauer 117
Over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign John Stuart Mill 120
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom Søeren Kierkegaard 124
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles Karl Marx 126
Act as if what you do makes a difference William James 132
The Modern World 1900-Present
Man is something to be surpassed Friedrich Nietzsche 138
Experience by itself is not science Edmund Husserl 144
We only think when we are confronted with problems John Dewey 146
The road to happiness lies in an organized diminution of work Bertrand Russell 150
Only as an individual can man become a philosopher Karl Jaspers 154
Logic is the last scientific ingredient of philosophy Rudolf Carnap 155
The limits of my language are the limits of my world Ludwig Wittgenstein 156
We are ourselves the entities to be analyzed Martin Heidegger 160
That which is cannot be true Herbert Marcuse 164
The banality of evil Hannah Arendt 165
In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable Karl Popper 168
Intelligence is a moral category Theodor Adorno 170
Existence precedes essence Jean-Paul Sartre 172
In order to see the world we must break with our familiar acceptance of it Maurice Merleau-Ponty 176
Man is defined as a human being and woman as a female Simone de Beauvoir 178
The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains Isaiah Berlin 180
Language is a skin Roland Barthes 182
How would we manage without a culture? Mary Midgley 184
Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory Thomas Kuhn 185
The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance John Rawls 186
For the black man, there is only one destiny and it is white Frantz Fanon 188
Man is an invention of recent date Michel Foucault 190
Every desire has a relation to madness Luce Irigaray 192
Thought has always worked by opposition Helene Cixous 193
Society is dependent upon a criticism of its own traditions Jurgen Habermas 194
There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves Richard Rorty 196
Index 200
Acknowledgments 208