The Philosophy Book

MAN WAS BORN FREE, YET EVERYWHERE HE IS IN CHAINS THE UNIVERSE HAS NOT ALWAYS EXISTED WE ONLY THINK WHEN WE ARE CONFRONTED WITH ...

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BOOK THE PHILOSOPHY ...

DK LONDON PROJECT ART EDITOR Anna Hall SENIOR EDITOR Sam Atkinson EDITORS Cecile Landau, Andrew Szudek, Sarah Tomley EDITORIAL A ...

WILL BUCKINGHAM A philosopher, novelist, and lecturer, Will Buckingham is particularly interested in the interplay of philosophy ...

10 INTRODUCTION THE ANCIENT WORLD 700 BCE–250 CE 22 Everything is made of water Thales of Miletus 24 The Dao that can be told is ...

RENAISSANCE AND THE AGE OF REASON 1500 – 102 The end justifies the means Niccolò Machiavelli 108 Fame and tranquillity can never ...

THE MODERN WORLD 1900 – 214 Man is something to be surpassed Friedrich Nietzsche 222 Men with self-confidence come and see and c ...

CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY 1950 –PRESENT 290 Language is a skin Roland Barthes 292 How would we manage without a culture? Mary Midg ...

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12 P hilosophy is not just the preserve of brilliant but eccentric thinkers that it is popularly supposed to be. It is what ever ...

13 But how can it be that these philosophical questions are still being discussed and debated? Why haven’t thinkers come up with ...

14 What emerged from their thinking was logic, a technique of reasoning that was gradually refined over time. At first simply a ...

15 From considering ethical questions about our individual lives, it is a natural step to start thinking about the sort of socie ...

16 it’s only when we see where Descartes took the idea—what the consequences of that conclusion are—that we see its importance. ...

17 scientific methods and practices. The development of logical thinking affected how math evolved and became the basis for the ...

THE ANC WORLD 700 BCE–250 CE ...