A little history of philosophy /
Presents an introduction to the ideas of major Western philosophers, including Aristotle, Augustine, John Locke, and Karl Marx.
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| Published: | New Haven : Yale University Press, [2011], ©2011. |
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Table of 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.