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50 philosophy classics : thinking, being, acting, seeing : profound insights and powerful thinking from 50 key books / Tom Butler-Bowdon.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Nicholas Brealey Publishing 2013Description: vi, 323 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781857885965 (pbk.) :
  • 9781857889444 (ebook) :
  • 1857889444
  • 1857885961 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9781857885965 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9781857889444
Other title:
  • Fifty philosophy classics
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 100 BUT
LOC classification:
  • BD21
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1.Hannah Arendt The Human Condition (1958) 2.Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics (4th century BC) 3.A.J. Ayer Language, Truth and Logic (1936) 4.Julian Baggini The Ego Trick (2011) 5.Jean Baudrillard Simulacra and Simulation (1981) 6.Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex (1949) 7.Jeremy Bentham Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789) 8.Henri Bergson Creative Evolution (1907) 9.David Bohm Wholeness and the Implicate Order (1980) 10.Noam Chomsky Understanding Power (2002) 11.Cicero On Duties (44 BC) 12.Confucius Analects (5th century BC) 13.Rene Descartes Meditations on First Philosophy (1641) 14.Ralph Waldo Emerson Fate (1860) 15.Epicurus Letters (3rd century BC) 16.Michel Foucault The Order of Things (1966) 17.Harry Frankfurt On Bullshit (2005) 18.Sam Harris Free Will (2012) 19.G.W.F. Hegel Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) 20.Martin Heidegger Being and Time (1927) Contents note continued: 21.Heraclitus Fragments (6th century AD) 22.David Hume An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748) 23.William James Pragmatism (1907) 24.Daniel Kahneman Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011) 25.Immanuel Kant Critique of Pure Reason (1781) 26.Sr̜en Kierkegaard Fear and Trembling (1843) 27.Saul Kripke Naming and Necessity (1972) 28.Thomas Kuhn The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) 29.Gottfried Leibniz Theodicy (1710) 30.John Locke Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689) 31.Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince (1513) 32.Marshall McLuhan The Medium Is the Massage (1967) 33.John Stuart Mill On Liberty (1859) 34.Michel de Montaigne Essays (1580) 35.Iris Murdoch The Sovereignty of Good (1970) 36.Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil (1886) 37.Blaise Pascal Pensees (1660) 38.Plato The Republic (4th century BC) 39.Karl Popper The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934) Contents note continued: 40.John Rawls A Theory of Justice (1971) 41.Jean-Jacques Rousseau The Social Contract (1762) 42.Bertrand Russell The Conquest of Happiness (1930) 43.Michael Sandel Justice (2009) 44.Jean-Paul Sartre Being and Nothingness (1943) 45.Arthur Schopenhauer The World as Will and Representation (1818) 46.Peter Singer The Life You Can Save (2009) 47.Baruch Spinoza Ethics (1677) 48.Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Black Swan (2007) 49.Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosophical Investigations (1953) 50.Slavoj Zizek Living in the End Times (2010) 51.More Philosophy Classics.
Summary: Tom Butler-Bowdon explores the works of 50 of the most significant philosophers; including those that show us how to think (Descartes, Foucault and Wittgenstein); how to be (Aristotle, Spinoza, Satre); how to act (Bentham, Kant, Singer) and how to see (Baudrillard, Hegel, Taleb).
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Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection 100 BUT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 219545
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection 100 BUT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 219544
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection 100 BUT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 219543
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 100 BUT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 219542

Includes bibliographical references.

Machine generated contents note: 1.Hannah Arendt The Human Condition (1958) 2.Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics (4th century BC) 3.A.J. Ayer Language, Truth and Logic (1936) 4.Julian Baggini The Ego Trick (2011) 5.Jean Baudrillard Simulacra and Simulation (1981) 6.Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex (1949) 7.Jeremy Bentham Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789) 8.Henri Bergson Creative Evolution (1907) 9.David Bohm Wholeness and the Implicate Order (1980) 10.Noam Chomsky Understanding Power (2002) 11.Cicero On Duties (44 BC) 12.Confucius Analects (5th century BC) 13.Rene Descartes Meditations on First Philosophy (1641) 14.Ralph Waldo Emerson Fate (1860) 15.Epicurus Letters (3rd century BC) 16.Michel Foucault The Order of Things (1966) 17.Harry Frankfurt On Bullshit (2005) 18.Sam Harris Free Will (2012) 19.G.W.F. Hegel Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) 20.Martin Heidegger Being and Time (1927) Contents note continued: 21.Heraclitus Fragments (6th century AD) 22.David Hume An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748) 23.William James Pragmatism (1907) 24.Daniel Kahneman Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011) 25.Immanuel Kant Critique of Pure Reason (1781) 26.Sr̜en Kierkegaard Fear and Trembling (1843) 27.Saul Kripke Naming and Necessity (1972) 28.Thomas Kuhn The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) 29.Gottfried Leibniz Theodicy (1710) 30.John Locke Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689) 31.Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince (1513) 32.Marshall McLuhan The Medium Is the Massage (1967) 33.John Stuart Mill On Liberty (1859) 34.Michel de Montaigne Essays (1580) 35.Iris Murdoch The Sovereignty of Good (1970) 36.Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil (1886) 37.Blaise Pascal Pensees (1660) 38.Plato The Republic (4th century BC) 39.Karl Popper The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934) Contents note continued: 40.John Rawls A Theory of Justice (1971) 41.Jean-Jacques Rousseau The Social Contract (1762) 42.Bertrand Russell The Conquest of Happiness (1930) 43.Michael Sandel Justice (2009) 44.Jean-Paul Sartre Being and Nothingness (1943) 45.Arthur Schopenhauer The World as Will and Representation (1818) 46.Peter Singer The Life You Can Save (2009) 47.Baruch Spinoza Ethics (1677) 48.Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Black Swan (2007) 49.Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosophical Investigations (1953) 50.Slavoj Zizek Living in the End Times (2010) 51.More Philosophy Classics.

Tom Butler-Bowdon explores the works of 50 of the most significant philosophers; including those that show us how to think (Descartes, Foucault and Wittgenstein); how to be (Aristotle, Spinoza, Satre); how to act (Bentham, Kant, Singer) and how to see (Baudrillard, Hegel, Taleb).

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