A Warburton, Nigel 1962- creator author text biography ctu New Haven, USA Yale University Press 2025 monographic eng

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viii, 252 p. black and white illustrations 20 cm. 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'. 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, Nigel Warburton. Includes index. "A delight. For the young of all ages." -- Lisa Appignanesi "The perfect fuel to kick-start anyone's journey into philosophy". -- Julian Baggini, Observer Philosophy History Philosophers B72 .W365 2011 SHS 190 W25l 2025 9780300283266 2011013537 DLC 110331 20260803094257.0 16714933