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How to Think Like a Philosopher

Scholars, Dreamers and Sages Who Can Teach Us How to Live
BuchKartoniert, Paperback
304 Seiten
Englisch
Bloomsbury Tradeerschienen am11.04.2024
An entertaining guide to history´s most fascinating philosophers - from Sappho to Kant, and Aristotle to Simone de Beauvoir - which seeks to help us answer life´s big questions.In showing how the great philosophers of human history lived and thought - and what they thought about - Peter Cave provides an accessible and enjoyable introduction to thinking philosophically and how it can change our everyday lives. He addresses questions such as: Is there anything out there´ that gives meaning to our lives? Does reality tell us how we ought to live? What indeed is reality and what is appearance - and how can we tell the difference?This book paints vivid portraits of an assortment of inspiring thinkers: from Lao Tzu to Avicenna to Iris Murdoch; from Hannah Arendt to Socrates and Plato to Karl Marx; from Kierkegaard and Nietzsche to Sartre to Samuel Beckett - and let us not forget Lewis Carroll for some thought-provoking fantasies and Ludwig Wittgenstein for the anguishes of a genius. As well as displaying optimists and pessimists, believers and non-believers, the book displays relevance to current affairs, from free speech to abortion to the treatment of animals to our leaders´ moral character.Cave brings to life these often prescient, always compelling philosophical thinkers, showing how their ways of approaching the world grew out of their own lives and times and how we may make valuable use of their insights today. Now, more than ever, we need to understand how to live, and how to understand the world around us.mehr
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KlappentextAn entertaining guide to history´s most fascinating philosophers - from Sappho to Kant, and Aristotle to Simone de Beauvoir - which seeks to help us answer life´s big questions.In showing how the great philosophers of human history lived and thought - and what they thought about - Peter Cave provides an accessible and enjoyable introduction to thinking philosophically and how it can change our everyday lives. He addresses questions such as: Is there anything out there´ that gives meaning to our lives? Does reality tell us how we ought to live? What indeed is reality and what is appearance - and how can we tell the difference?This book paints vivid portraits of an assortment of inspiring thinkers: from Lao Tzu to Avicenna to Iris Murdoch; from Hannah Arendt to Socrates and Plato to Karl Marx; from Kierkegaard and Nietzsche to Sartre to Samuel Beckett - and let us not forget Lewis Carroll for some thought-provoking fantasies and Ludwig Wittgenstein for the anguishes of a genius. As well as displaying optimists and pessimists, believers and non-believers, the book displays relevance to current affairs, from free speech to abortion to the treatment of animals to our leaders´ moral character.Cave brings to life these often prescient, always compelling philosophical thinkers, showing how their ways of approaching the world grew out of their own lives and times and how we may make valuable use of their insights today. Now, more than ever, we need to understand how to live, and how to understand the world around us.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-3994-0595-9
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2024
Erscheinungsdatum11.04.2024
Seiten304 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht221 g
Artikel-Nr.60641201

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Prologue1 Lao Tzu: The Way to Tao2 Sappho: Lover3 Zeno of Elea: Tortoise Backer and Parmenidean Helper4 Gadfly: aka Socrates´5 Plato: Charioteer, Magnificent Footnote Inspirer - Nobody Does It Better´6 Aristotle: Earth-Bound, Walking7 Epicurus: Gardener, Curing the Soul, Ably Assisted by Lucretius8 Avicenna: Flying Man, Unifier9 Descartes: With Princess, With Queen10 Spinoza: God-Intoxicated Atheist11 Leibniz: Monad Man12 Bishop Berkeley, That Paradoxical Irishman´: Immaterialist, Tar-Water Advocate13 David Hume: The Great Infidel or Le Bon David14 Kant: Duty Calls, Categorically15 Schopenhauer: Pessimism With Flute16 John Stuart Mill: Utility Man, With Harriet, Soul-Mate17 Søren Kierkegaard: Who?18 Karl Marx: Hegelian, Freedom-Fighter19 Lewis Carroll: Curiouser and Curiouser20 Nietzsche: God-Slaying Jester, Trans-Valuer21 Bertrand Russell: Radical, Aristocrat22 G. E. Moore: Common-Sense Defender, Bloomsbury´s Sage23 Heidegger: Hyphenater24 Jean-Paul Sartre: Existentialist, Novelist, French25 Simone Weil: Refuser and Would-Be Rescuer26 Simone de Beauvoir: Situated, Protester, Feminist27 Ludwig Wittgenstein: Therapist28 Hannah Arendt: Controversialist, Journalist?29 Iris Murdoch: Attender30 Samuel Beckett: Not IEpilogueDates of the PhilosophersNotes, References and ReadingsAcknowledgementsIn MemoryName IndexSubject Indexmehr
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A very enjoyable introduction into Western philosophy. Light, conversational, entertaining and intellectually stimulating. Daily Philosophymehr

Autor

Peter Cave is a popular philosophy writer and speaker. He read philosophy at University College London and King's College Cambridge.

Peter is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Honorary Member of Population Matters, former member of the Council of the Royal Institute of Philosophy and Chair of Humanist Philosophers - and is a Patron of Humanists UK. Peter has scripted and presented BBC radio philosophy programmes and often takes part in public debates on religion, ethics and socio-political matters.

His philosophy books include This Sentence Is False: An Introduction to Philosophical Paradoxes (2009), and three Beginner's Guides: to Humanism, Philosophy and Ethics. More recent works are The Big Think Book: Discover Philosophy Through 99 Perplexing Problems (2015) and The Myths We Live By: A Contrarian's Guide to Democracy, Free Speech and Other Liberal Fictions (2019).