The Philosophy Book

DIRECTORY 339 DANIEL DENNETT 1942– Born in Beirut, the American philosopher Daniel Dennett is an acclaimed expert on the nature ...

340 the Absolute Ultimate reality conceived of as an all-embracing, single principle. Some thinkers have identified this princip ...

GLOSSARY 341 Epistemology The branch of philosophy concerned with what sort of thing, if anything, we can know; how we know it; ...

342 Necessary and sufficient conditions For X to be a husband it is a necessary condition for X to be married. However, this is ...

343 Universalism The belief that we should apply to ourselves the same standards and values that we apply to others. Not to be c ...

344 Numbers in bold refer to main entries, those in italics refer to the captions to illustrations. 95 Theses, Martin Luther 100 ...

INDEX 345 Commentary on Plato’s Timaeus, Proclus 332 Commentry on Euclid, Proclus 332 communism 198, 202, 203, 213, 288, 289 Com ...

346 Plato 55 Protagoras 42, 43 Richard Rorty 316, 317, 318 St. Augustine of Hippo 72 Siddhartha Gautama 33 Simone de Beauvoir 27 ...

347 Mohism 44 Monadology, Gottfried Leibniz 135 monads 136, 137, 334 monism 22, 40, 41, 126, 139, 180, 341 morality 14, 15, 21, ...

348 On Being Conservative, Michael Oakeshott 337 On Liberty, James Mill 193 On My Philosophy, Karl Jaspers 245 On Sense and Refe ...

349 Theodor Adorno 267 Thomas Hobbes 112, 113, 114 Thomas Kuhn 293 Voltaire 147 Science of Logic, Georg Hegel 182–3 science, phi ...

350 soul 13, 15, 16 al-Kindî 332 Aquinas 94, 95 Plato 54 Plotinus 331 Spinoza, Bendictus (Baruch) 80, 126–9, 130, 134 Stalin, Jo ...

351 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Dorling Kindersley would like to thank Debra Wolter and Nigel Ritchie for their editorial assistance, Vicky ...

352 Library: Archives Charmet (tl). 249 Getty Images: The Bridgeman Art Library (br). 250 Getty Images: Travelpix Ltd / Photogra ...