How to Think Like a Philosopher
Scholars, Dreamers and Sages Who Can Teach Us How to Live
(Sprache: Englisch)
An entertaining guide to history's most fascinating philosophers - from Sappho to Kant, and Aristotle to Simone de Beauvoir - which seeks to help us answer life's big questions. In showing how the great philosophers of human history lived and thought...
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An entertaining guide to history's most fascinating philosophers - from Sappho to Kant, and Aristotle to Simone de Beauvoir - which seeks to help us answer life's big questions. In showing how the great philosophers of human history lived and thought - and what they thought about - Peter Cave provides an accessible and enjoyable introduction to thinking philosophically and how it can change our everyday lives. He addresses questions such as: Is there anything 'out there' that gives meaning to our lives? Does reality tell us how we ought to live? What indeed is reality and what is appearance - and how can we tell the difference? This book paints vivid portraits of an assortment of inspiring thinkers: from Lao Tzu to Avicenna to Iris Murdoch; from Hannah Arendt to Socrates and Plato to Karl Marx; from Kierkegaard and Nietzsche to Sartre to Samuel Beckett - and let us not forget Lewis Carroll for some thought-provoking fantasies and Ludwig Wittgenstein for the anguishes of a genius. As well as displaying optimists and pessimists, believers and non-believers, the book displays relevance to current affairs, from free speech to abortion to the treatment of animals to our leaders' moral character. Cave brings to life these often prescient, always compelling philosophical thinkers, showing how their ways of approaching the world grew out of their own lives and times and how we may make valuable use of their insights today. Now, more than ever, we need to understand how to live, and how to understand the world around us.
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Prologue 1 Lao Tzu: The Way to Tao 2 Sappho: Lover 3 Zeno of Elea: Tortoise Backer and Parmenidean Helper 4 Gadfly: aka 'Socrates' 5 Plato: Charioteer, Magnificent Footnote Inspirer - 'Nobody Does It Better' 6 Aristotle: Earth-Bound, Walking 7 Epicurus: Gardener, Curing the Soul, Ably Assisted by Lucretius 8 Avicenna: Flying Man, Unifier 9 Descartes: With Princess, With Queen 10 Spinoza: God-Intoxicated Atheist 11 Leibniz: Monad Man 12 Bishop Berkeley, 'That Paradoxical Irishman': Immaterialist, Tar-Water Advocate 13 David Hume: The Great Infidel or Le Bon David 14 Kant: Duty Calls, Categorically 15 Schopenhauer: Pessimism With Flute 16 John Stuart Mill: Utility Man, With Harriet, Soul-Mate 17 Søren Kierkegaard: Who? 18 Karl Marx: Hegelian, Freedom-Fighter 19 Lewis Carroll: Curiouser and Curiouser 20 Nietzsche: God-Slaying Jester, Trans-Valuer 21 Bertrand Russell: Radical, Aristocrat 22 G. E. Moore: Common-Sense Defender, Bloomsbury's Sage 23 Heidegger: Hyphenater 24 Jean-Paul Sartre: Existentialist, Novelist, French 25 Simone Weil: Refuser and Would-Be Rescuer 26 Simone de Beauvoir: Situated, Protester, Feminist 27 Ludwig Wittgenstein: Therapist 28 Hannah Arendt: Controversialist, Journalist? 29 Iris Murdoch: Attender 30 Samuel Beckett: Not I Epilogue Dates of the Philosophers Notes, References and Readings Acknowledgements In Memory Name Index Subject Index
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Peter Cave
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- Autor: Peter Cave
- 2024, 304 Seiten, Masse: 12,7 x 19,7 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade
- ISBN-10: 1399405950
- ISBN-13: 9781399405959
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Englisch
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A very enjoyable introduction into Western philosophy. Light, conversational, entertaining and intellectually stimulating. Daily Philosophy
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