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A little history of philosophy /

Presents an introduction to the ideas of major Western philosophers, including Aristotle, Augustine, John Locke, and Karl Marx.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Warburton, Nigel, 1962- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2011]
Colección:Little Histories
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 out 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)
  • Practical bliss : Jeremy Bentham
  • The owl of Minerva : Georg W.F. Hegel
  • Glimpses 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. Pierce and William James
  • The death of God : Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Thoughts in disguise : Sigmund Freud
  • Is the present king of France bald? : Bertrand Russell
  • Boo!/Hurray! : 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.