A little history of philosophy / Nigel Warburton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Haven, USA Yale University Press, 2025.Description: viii, 252 p. black and white illustrations 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780300283266
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • SHS 190 W25l 2025 22
LOC classification:
  • B72 .W365 2011
Contents:
The man who asked questions : Socrates and Plato, True happiness : Aristotle, We know nothing : Pyrrho, The garden path : Epicurus, Learning not to care : Epictetus, Cicero, Seneca, Who is pulling our strings? : Augustine, The consolation of philosophy : Boethius, The perfect island : Anselm and Aquinas, The fox and the lion : Niccolò Machiavelli, Nasty, brutish, and short : Thomas Hobbes, Could you be dreaming? : René Descartes, Place your bets : Blaise Pascal, The lens grinder : Baruch Spinoza, The prince and the cobbler : John Locke and Thomas Reid, The elephant in the room : George Berkeley (and John Locke), The best of all possible worlds? : Voltaire and Gottfried Leibniz, The imaginary watchmaker : David Hume, Born free : Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Rose-tinted reality : Immanuel Kant (1), What if everyone did that? : Immanuel Kant (2), Practical bliss : Jeremy Bentham, The owl of Minerva : Georg W.F. Hegel, Glimpse of reality : Arthur Schopenhauer, Space to grow : John Stuart Mill, Unintelligent design : Charles Darwin, Life's sacrifices : Søren Kierkegaard, Workers of the world unite : Karl Marx, So what? : C.S. Peirce and William James, The death of God : Friedrich Nietzsche, Thoughts in disguise : Sigmund Freud, Is the present king of France bald? : Bertrand Russell, Boo!/Hooray! A.J. Ayer, The anguish of freedom : Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Albert Camus, Bewitched by language : Ludwig Wittgenstein, The man who didn't ask questions : Hannah Arendt, Learning from mistakes : Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn, The runaway train and the unwanted violinist : Philippa Foot and Judith Jarvis Thomson, Fairness through ignorance : John Rawls, Can computers think? : Alan Turing and John Searle, A modern gadfly : Peter Singer,
"A delight. For the young of all ages." -- Lisa Appignanesi "The perfect fuel to kick-start anyone's journey into philosophy". -- Julian Baggini, ObserverSummary: Inspiring guides for curious minds This lively and best-selling introduction to Western philosophy explains the ideas of great thinkers - from the ancients who debated freedom and the nature of existence, to modern philosophers who ask if animals have rights and whether computers can truly 'think'.
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Includes index.

The man who asked questions : Socrates and Plato, True happiness : Aristotle, We know nothing : Pyrrho, The garden path : Epicurus, Learning not to care : Epictetus, Cicero, Seneca, Who is pulling our strings? : Augustine, The consolation of philosophy : Boethius, The perfect island : Anselm and Aquinas, The fox and the lion : Niccolò Machiavelli, Nasty, brutish, and short : Thomas Hobbes, Could you be dreaming? : René Descartes, Place your bets : Blaise Pascal, The lens grinder : Baruch Spinoza, The prince and the cobbler : John Locke and Thomas Reid, The elephant in the room : George Berkeley (and John Locke), The best of all possible worlds? : Voltaire and Gottfried Leibniz, The imaginary watchmaker : David Hume, Born free : Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Rose-tinted reality : Immanuel Kant (1), What if everyone did that? : Immanuel Kant (2), Practical bliss : Jeremy Bentham, The owl of Minerva : Georg W.F. Hegel, Glimpse of reality : Arthur Schopenhauer, Space to grow : John Stuart Mill, Unintelligent design : Charles Darwin, Life's sacrifices : Søren Kierkegaard, Workers of the world unite : Karl Marx, So what? : C.S. Peirce and William James, The death of God : Friedrich Nietzsche, Thoughts in disguise : Sigmund Freud, Is the present king of France bald? : Bertrand Russell, Boo!/Hooray! A.J. Ayer, The anguish of freedom : Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Albert Camus, Bewitched by language : Ludwig Wittgenstein, The man who didn't ask questions : Hannah Arendt, Learning from mistakes : Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn, The runaway train and the unwanted violinist : Philippa Foot and Judith Jarvis Thomson, Fairness through ignorance : John Rawls, Can computers think? : Alan Turing and John Searle, A modern gadfly : Peter Singer,

"A delight. For the young of all ages." -- Lisa Appignanesi

"The perfect fuel to kick-start anyone's journey into philosophy". -- Julian Baggini, Observer

Inspiring guides for curious minds This lively and best-selling introduction to Western philosophy explains the ideas of great thinkers - from the ancients who debated freedom and the nature of existence, to modern philosophers who ask if animals have rights and whether computers can truly 'think'.

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