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| International Standard Book Number |
9780300187793 |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0300187793 |
| DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Call number |
190 |
| MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Authors |
Warburton, Nigel, |
| Dates |
1962- |
| TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
A little history of philosophy |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Nigel Warburton |
| PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication |
New Haven : |
| Publisher |
Yale University Press, |
| Date |
2012. |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
viii, 252 p. : |
| Other Details |
ill. ; |
| Size |
22 cm. |
| GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Includes index. |
| CONTENTS |
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| 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. |
| SUMMARY |
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| Summary |
Presents the subject of philosophy as the history of ideas, and introduces the great thinkers of Western philosophy along with stories from their lives. |
| STUDY PROGRAM |
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| Program name |
ARTS035 |
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| Topical Heading |
Philosophy |
| General |
History |
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| Topical Heading |
Philosophers |
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Philosophy |
| General |
History |
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Philosophers |
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| Public note |
Ebook |
| Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.ezproxy.uow.edu.au/lib/uow/detail.action?docID=3420746 |
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| Public note |
Location Map |
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https://uowd.box.com/s/j52xtkj74oxaztnlchcm8kl3lvdw5qnz |
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