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The Philosophy book
Item details
- ISBN: 1465458557
- ISBN: 9781465458551
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Physical Description:
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352 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm - Edition: [Revised] First American Edition.
- Publisher: New York : DK Publishing, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2017
Contents / Notes
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes directory and index.. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The ancient world 700 BCE-250 CE -- Everything is made of water -- The dao that can be told is not the eternal dao -- Number is the ruler of forms and ideas -- Happy is he who has overcome his ego -- Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles -- Everything is flux -- All is one -- Man is the measure of all things -- When one throws to me a peach, I return to him a plum -- Nothing exists except atoms and empty space -- The life which is unexamined is not worth living -- Earthly knowledge is but shadow -- Truth resides in the world around us -- Death is nothing to us -- He has the most who is most content with the least -- The goal of life is living in agreement with nature -- The medieval world 250-1500 -- God is not the parent of evils -- God foresees our free thoughts and actions -- The soul is distinct from the body -- Just by thinking about God we can know he exists -- Philosophy and religion are not incompatible -- God has no attributes -- Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form -- The universe has not always existed -- God is the not-other -- To know nothing is the happiest life -- Renaissance and the age of reason 1500-1750 -- The end justifies the means -- Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows -- Knowledge is power -- Man is a machine -- I think therefore I am -- Imagination decides everything -- God is the cause of all things, which are in him -- No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience -- There are two kinds of truths : truths of reasoning and truths of fact -- To be is to be perceived -- The age of revolution 1750-1900 -- Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainly is absurd -- Custom is the great guide of human life -- Man was born free yet everywhere he is in chains -- Man is an animal that makes bargains -- There are two worlds : our bodies and the external world -- Society is indeed a contract -- The greatest happiness for the greatest number -- Mind has no gender -- What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is -- About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy -- Reality is a historical process -- Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world -- Theology is anthropology -- Over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign -- Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom -- The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles -- Must the citizen ever resign his conscience to the legislator? -- Consider what effects things I have -- Act as if what you do makes a difference -- The modern world 1900-1950 -- Man is something to be surpassed -- Men with self-confidence come and see and conquer -- Every message is made of signs -- Experience by itself is not science -- Intuition goes in the very direction of life -- We only think when we are confronted with problems -- Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it -- It is only suffering that makes us persons -- Believe in life -- The road to happiness lies in an organized diminution of work -- Love is a bridge from poorer to richer knowledge -- Only as an individual can man become a philosopher -- Life is a series of collisions with the future -- To philosophize, first one must confess -- The limits of my language are the limits of my world -- We are ourselves the entities to be analyzed -- The individual's only true moral choice is through self-sacrifice for the community -- Logic is the last scientific ingredient of philosophy -- The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope -- That which is cannot be true -- History does not belong to us but we belong to it -- In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable -- Intelligence is a moral category -- Existence precedes essence -- The banality of evil -- Reason live in language -- In order to see the world we must break with our familiar acceptance of it -- Man is defined as a human being and woman as a female -- Language is a social art -- The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains -- Think like a mountain -- Life will be lived all the better if it has no meaning -- Contemporary philosophy 1950-present -- Language is a skin -- How would we manage without a culture? -- Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory -- The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance -- Art is a form of life -- Anything goes -- Knowledge is produced to be sold -- For the black man, there is only one destiny and it is white -- Man is an invention of recent date -- If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion -- Society is dependent upon a criticism of its own traditions -- There is nothing outside of the text -- There is nothing deep down inside us excepts what we have put there ourselves -- Every desire has a reaction to madness -- Every empire tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires -- Thought has always worked by opposition -- Who plays God in present-day feminism? -- Philosophy is not only a written enterprise -- In suffering, the animals are our equals -- All the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure. |
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