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Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained [Kietas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Hardback, 352 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 243x203x28 mm, weight: 1179 g
  • Serija: DK Big Ideas
  • Išleidimo metai: 17-Jan-2011
  • Leidėjas: Dorling Kindersley
  • ISBN-10: 0756668611
  • ISBN-13: 9780756668617
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
  • Formatas: Hardback, 352 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 243x203x28 mm, weight: 1179 g
  • Serija: DK Big Ideas
  • Išleidimo metai: 17-Jan-2011
  • Leidėjas: Dorling Kindersley
  • ISBN-10: 0756668611
  • ISBN-13: 9780756668617
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
Using innovative graphics and typography this guide to philosophy helps demystify difficult concepts and provides clarification of theories and abstract concepts for those new to the area or with a general interest in how social and ethical ideas are formed.

Using innovative graphics and creative typography to help demystify hard-to-grasp concepts for those new to philosophy, The Philosophy Book cuts through the haze of misunderstanding, untangles knotty theories, and sheds light on abstract concepts.

Aimed at anyone with a general interest in how our social, political, and ethical ideas are formed, as well as students of philosophy and politics, The Philosophy Book breathes new life to a subject that is often regarded as esoteric and academic.
Introduction 10(12)
The Ancient World 700 BCE-250 CE
Everything is made of water
22(2)
Thales
The Dao that can be told is not the eternal Dao
24(2)
Laozi
Number is the ruler of forms and ideas
26(4)
Pythagoras
Happy is he who has overcome his ego
30(4)
Siddhartha Gautama
Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles
34(6)
Confucius
Everything is flux
40(1)
Heraclitus
All is one
41(1)
Parmenides
Man is the measure of all things
42(2)
Protagoras
When one throws to me a peach, I return to him a plum
44(1)
Mozi
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space
45(1)
Democritus
Leucippus
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
46(4)
Socrates
Earthly knowledge is but shadow
50(6)
Plato
Truth resides in the world around us
56(8)
Aristotle
Death is nothing to us
64(2)
Epicurus
He has the most who is most content with the least
66(1)
Diogenes
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature
67(5)
Zeno
The Medieval World 250-1500
God is not the parent of evils
72(2)
St. Augustine
God foresees our free thoughts and actions
74(2)
Boethius
The soul is distinct from the body
76(4)
Avicenna
Just by thinking about God we can know he exists
80(2)
St. Anselm
Philosophy and religion are not incompatible
82(2)
Averroes
God has no attributes
84(2)
Moses Maimonides
Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form
86(2)
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
The universe has not always existed
88(8)
Thomas Aquinas
God is the not-other
96(1)
Nikolaus von Kues
To know nothing is the happiest life
97(5)
Desiderius Erasmus
Renaissance and the Age of Reason 1500-1750
The end justifies the means
102(6)
Niccolo Machiavelli
Fame and tranquillity can never be bedfellows
108(2)
Michel de Montaigne
Knowledge is power
110(2)
Francis Bacon
Man is a machine
112(4)
Thomas Hobbes
I think therefore I am
116(8)
Rene Descartes
Imagination decides everything
124(2)
Blaise Pascal
God is the cause of all things, which are in him
126(4)
Benedictus Spinoza
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience
130(4)
John Locke
There are two kinds of truths: truths of reasoning and truths of fact
134(4)
Gottfried Leibniz
To be is to be perceived
138(8)
George Berkeley
The Age of Revolution 1750-1900
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absured
146(2)
Voltaire
Custom is the great guide of human life
148(6)
David Hume
Man was born free yet everywhere he is in chains
154(6)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Man is an animal that makes bargains
160(4)
Adam Smith
There are two worlds: our bodies and the external world
164(8)
Immanuel Kant
Society is indeed a contract
172(2)
Edmund Burke
The greatest happiness for the greatest number
174(1)
Jeremy Bentham
Mind has no gender
175(1)
Mary Wollstonecraft
What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is
176(1)
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy
177(1)
Friedrich Schlegel
Reality is a historical process
178(8)
Georg Hegel
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world
186(3)
Arthur Schopenhauer
Theology is anthropology
189(1)
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
Over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign
190(4)
John Stuart Mill
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom
194(2)
Søren Kierkegaard
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles
196(8)
Karl Marx
Must the citizen ever resign his conscience to the legislator?
204(1)
Henry David Thoreau
Consider what effects things have
205(1)
Charles Sanders Peirce
Act as if what you do makes a difference
206(8)
William James
The Modern World 1900-1950
Man is something to be surpassed
214(8)
Friedrich Nietzsche
Men with self-confidence come and see and conquer
222(1)
Ahad Ha'am
Every message is made of signs
223(1)
Ferdinand de Saussure
Experience by itself is not science
224(2)
Edmund Husserd
Intuition goes in the very direction of life
226(2)
Henri Bergson
We only think when we are confronted with problems
228(4)
John Dewey
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it
232(1)
George Santayana
It is only suffering that makes us persons
233(1)
Miguel de Unamuno
Believe in life
234(2)
William Du Bois
The road to happiness lies in an organized diminution of work
236(4)
Bertrand Russell
Love is a bridge from poorer to richer knowledge
240(1)
Max Scheler
Only as an individual can man become a philosopher
241(1)
Karl Jaspers
Life is a series of collisions with the future
242(2)
Jose Ortega y Gasset
To philosophize, first one must confess
244(2)
Hajime Tanabe
The limits of my language are the limits of my world
246(6)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
We are ourselves the entities to be analyzed
252(4)
Martin Heidegger
The individual's only true moral choice is through self-sacrifice for the community
256(1)
Tetsuro Watsuji
Logic is the last scientific ingredient of philosophy
257(1)
Rudolf Carnap
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope
258(1)
Walter Benjamin
That which is cannot be true
259(1)
Herbert Mateuro
History does not belong to us but we belong to it
260(2)
Hans-Georg Gadamet
In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable
262(4)
Karl Popper
Intelligence is a moral category
266(2)
Theodor Adorno
Existence precedes essence
268(4)
Jean-Paul Sartre
The banality of evil
272(1)
Hannah Arendt
Reason lives in language
273(1)
Emmanuel Levinas
In order to see the world we must break with our familiar acceptance of it
274(2)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Man is defined as a human being and woman as a female
276(2)
Simone de Beauvoir
Language is a social art
278(2)
Willard Van Orman Quine
The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains
280(2)
Isaiah Berlin
Think like a mountain
282(2)
Arne Naess
Life will be lived all the better if it has no meaning
284(6)
Albert Camus
Contemporary Philosophy 1950-Present
Language is a skin
290(2)
Roland Barthes
How would we manage without a culture?
292(1)
Mary Midgley
Normal Science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory
293(1)
Thomas Kuhn
The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance
294(2)
John Rawls
Art is a form of life
296(1)
Richard Wollheim
Anything goes
297(1)
Paul Feyerabend
Knowledge is produced to be sold
298(2)
Jean-Francois Lyotard
For the black man, there is only one destiny and it is white
300(2)
Frantz Fanon
Man is an invention of recent date
302(2)
Michel Foucault
If we choose, we can live in world of comforting illusion
304(2)
Noam Chomsky
Society is dependent upon a criticism of its own traditions
306(2)
Jurgen Habermas
There is nothing outside of the text
308(6)
Jacques Derrida
There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves
314(6)
Richard Rorty
Every desire has a relation to madness
320(1)
Luce Irigaray
Every empire tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires
321(1)
Edward Said
Thought has always worked by opposition
322(1)
Helene Cixous
Who plays God in present-day feminism?
323(1)
Julia Kristeva
Philosophy is not only a written enterprise
324(1)
Henry Odera Oruka
In suffering, the animals are our equals
325(1)
Peter Singer
All the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure
326(4)
Slavoj Zizek
Directory 330(10)
Glossary 340(4)
Index 344(7)
Acknowledgments 351