Description:Socrates - Aristotle - Stoicism - Nihilism - Plato's Republic - The Rights of Man - The Turing Test - Idealism - Laplace's Demon - Galileo's Trial - Baconian Method - Epicurus's Riddle - John Dewey - Realism - The Enlightenment - Newcomb's Paradox - Kant - Leibniz - Nietzsche - Syllogisms . . .If you're honest, how much do you really know about any of this stuff? The older we get the less we seem to know and the less time we have to bone up on the essentials. One day, you tell yourself, you'll get round to finding out. Well that day has arrived, so welcome to your intensive vacation primer! Forget boring lectures and dusty professors, this book presents history's greatest philosophers and their big ideas in fascinating, easy-to-understand and manageable chunks. You'll learn how philosophical ideas have shaped the world around us, from our politics and religion to our language and ethics, and be challenged by some of the puzzles and paradoxes that have had philosophers thinking for centuries. By the end of this book, you'll know your Descartes from your Dewey, Hobbes from Hegel and so much more. This really is everything you should have learned about philosophy.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with 501 Things YOU Should Have Learned About Philosophy. To get started finding 501 Things YOU Should Have Learned About Philosophy, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
256
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Metro Books
Release
2014
ISBN
1435140788
501 Things YOU Should Have Learned About Philosophy
Description: Socrates - Aristotle - Stoicism - Nihilism - Plato's Republic - The Rights of Man - The Turing Test - Idealism - Laplace's Demon - Galileo's Trial - Baconian Method - Epicurus's Riddle - John Dewey - Realism - The Enlightenment - Newcomb's Paradox - Kant - Leibniz - Nietzsche - Syllogisms . . .If you're honest, how much do you really know about any of this stuff? The older we get the less we seem to know and the less time we have to bone up on the essentials. One day, you tell yourself, you'll get round to finding out. Well that day has arrived, so welcome to your intensive vacation primer! Forget boring lectures and dusty professors, this book presents history's greatest philosophers and their big ideas in fascinating, easy-to-understand and manageable chunks. You'll learn how philosophical ideas have shaped the world around us, from our politics and religion to our language and ethics, and be challenged by some of the puzzles and paradoxes that have had philosophers thinking for centuries. By the end of this book, you'll know your Descartes from your Dewey, Hobbes from Hegel and so much more. This really is everything you should have learned about philosophy.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with 501 Things YOU Should Have Learned About Philosophy. To get started finding 501 Things YOU Should Have Learned About Philosophy, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.