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The many faces of philosophy : reflections from Plato to Arendt /
Philosophy is a dangerous profession, risking censorship, prison, even death. And no wonder: philosophers have questioned traditional pieties and threatened the established political order. Some claimed to know what was thought unknowable; others doubted what was believed to be certain. Some attacke...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2003.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Witnessing philosophers
- I. From Plato to Maimonides. Plato : a philosopher educates a tyrant
- Seneca : philosophy as a guide to life
- Augustine : two cities : two roads to knowledge
- Al Ghazali : my life
- Abelard and Eloise : calamities and credos
- Moses Maimonides : why I write ... and how I write
- II. From Bacon to Hume. Francis Bacon : how to think well
- René Descartes : moving toward clarity and Adrien Baillet : Descartes' dream
- Blaise Pascal : the limits of thought
- Thomas Hobbes : "Justice I teach and reverence justice" and John Aubrey : "The life of Hobbes"
- Baruch Spinoza : wisdom and the improvement of the understanding
- John Locke : the origins of philosophical ideas
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz : God, mind, and logic
- George Berkeley : philosophy does not need abstract ideas
- David Hume : my life and Adam Smith : "Mr. David Hume.
- III. From Vico to Schopenhauer. Giambattista Vico : imagination, language, and the inventions of philosophy
- Voltaire : good sense and nonsense
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau : meditations on my troubled heart
- Denis Diderot : clarity against dogmatic superstition
- Immanuel Kant : the tasks of philosophy
- Johann Gottfried Herder : culture and the stages of the imagination
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte : idealism and self-reflection
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel : the new science of philosophy
- Arthur Schopenhauer : vitality and the tasks of life
- IV. From Bentham to Russell. Jeremy Bentham : accounting for rationality
- John Stuart Mill : education and social progress
- Karl Marx : philosophy as political critique and Friedrich Engels : speech at the graveside of Marx
- Søren Kierkegaard : the many faces of an author
- Friedrich Nietzsche : overcoming my life
- Charles Sanders Peirce : autobiographical note
- William James : philosophy and emergent morality
- John Dewey : from absolutism to experimentalism
- George Santayana : my host the world
- Bertrand Russell : why a became a philosopher.
- v. From Wittgenstein Appiah. Ludwig Wittgenstein : logical arrangements
- Martin Heidegger : my way to phenomenology
- Rudolph Carnap : autobiography
- Jean-Paul Sartre : self-portrait at seventy
- Simone de Beauvoir : writing a life of writing
- Takatura Ando : a philosopher in the midst of war
- Hans-Georg Gadamer : philosophical apprenticeships
- Hannah Arendt : thinking through the good life
- Isaiah Berlin : my intellectual path
- G.E.M. Anscombe : my interests in philosophy
- Kwame Anthony Appiah : the many sources of philosophic reflections.