50 philosophy classics : thinking, being, acting, seeing : profound insights and powerful thinking from 50 key books
Butler-Bowdon, Tom, 1967-2016
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Abstract: A stunning survey of the "king of disciplines," 50 Philosophy Classics seeks to enlighten and explain, rather than merely instruct. Tom Butler-Bowdon has compiled a remarkable group of thinkers and their seminal works to serve as a lively entry point to the field of philosophy. Analyses of ancient and modern philosophers show how philosophy helped shape the events human history.
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Butler-Bowdon, Tom, 1967-, authorCredo Reference (Firm), distributor
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[Enhanced Credo edition]
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London [England] ; Boston : Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2013.Boston, Massachusetts : Credo Reference, 2016.
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1 online resource (57 entries) : 1 image ; digital files.
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Print version: vi, 325 pages
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Introduction -- 1. Hannah Arendt, The human condition (1958) -- 2. Aristotle Nicomachean, Ethics (4th century BC) -- 3. A.J. Ayer, Language, truth and logic (1936) -- 4. Julian Baggini, The ego trick (2011) -- 5. Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and simulation (1981) -- 6. Simone de Beauvoir, The second sex (1949) -- 7. Jeremy Bentham, Principles of morals and legislation (1789) -- 8. Henri Bergson, Creative evolution (1907) -- 9. David Bohm, Wholeness and the implicate order (1980) -- 10. Noam Chomsky, Understanding power (2002) -- 11. Cicero, On duties (44 BC) -- 12. Confucius, Analects (5th century BC) -- 13. René Descartes, Meditations on first philosophy (1641) -- 14. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Fate (1860) -- 15. Epicurus, Letters (3rd century BC) -- 16. Michel Foucault, The order of things (1966) -- 17. Harry Frankfurt, On bullshit (2005) -- 18. Sam Harris, Free will (2012) -- 19. G.W.F. Hegel, Phenomenology of spirit (1807) -- 20. Martin Heidegger, Being and time (1927) -- 21. Heraclitus, Fragments (6th century AD) -- 22. David Hume, An enquiry concerning human understanding (1748) -- 23. William James, Pragmatism (1907) -- 24. Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, fast and slow (2011) -- 25. Immanuel Kant, Critique of pure reason (1781) -- 26. Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and trembling (1843) -- 27. Saul Kripke, Naming and necessity (1972) -- 28. Thomas Kuhn, The structure of scientific revolutions (1962) -- 29. Gottfried Leibniz, Theodicy (1710) -- 30. John Locke, Essay concerning human understanding (1689) -- 31. Niccolò Machiavelli, The prince (1513) -- 32. Marshall McLuhan, The medium is the message (1967) -- 33. John Stuart Mill, On liberty (1859) -- 34. Michel de Montaigne, Essays (1580) -- 35. Iris Murdoch, The sovereignty of good (1970) -- 36. Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond good and evil (1886) -- 37. Blaise Pascal, Pensées (1660) -- 38. Plato, The republic (4th century BC) -- 39. Karl Popper, The logic of scientific discovery (1934) -- 40. John Rawls, A theory of justice (1971) -- 41. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The social contract (1762) -- 42. Bertrand Russell, The conquest of happiness (1930) -- 43. Michael Sandel, Justice (2009) -- 44. Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and nothingness (1943) -- 45. Arthur Schopenhauer, The world as will and representation (1818) -- 46. Peter Singer, The life you can save (2009) -- 47. Baruch Spinoza, Ethics (1677) -- 48. Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The black swan (2007) -- 49. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical investigations (1953) -- 50. Slavoj Žižek, Living in the end times (2010) -- 50 more philosophy classics -- Glossary -- Credits -- Acknowledgments.
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9781857885965 (pbk. : alk. paper)9781857889444 (invalid)9781785399503 (electronic version)
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100
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B68
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English
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501917
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