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50 philosophy classics, your shortcut to the most important ideas on being, truth, and meaning, Tom Butler-Bowdon

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50 philosophy classics, your shortcut to the most important ideas on being, truth, and meaning, Tom Butler-Bowdon

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references

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non fiction

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50 philosophy classics

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bibliography

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958797810

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Tom Butler-Bowdon

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50 classicsGreatest books distilled

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your shortcut to the most important ideas on being, truth, and meaning

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From Aristotle to Wittgenstein and Zizek, this text provides a lively entry point to the field of philosophy. Analyses of key works show how philosophy helped shape the thinking and events of the last 150 years. It explores key writings that have shaped the discipline and impacted the real world, from ancient times, to contemporary thinkers

Table Of Contents

Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (1958) -- Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (4th century BC) -- A.J. Ayer, Language, Truth and Logic (1936) -- Julian Baggini, The Ego Trick (2011) -- Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation (1981) -- Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1952) -- Jeremy Bentham, Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789) -- Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution (1911) -- David Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order (1980) -- Noam Chomsky, Understanding Power (2002) -- Cicero, On Duties (44 BC) -- Confucius, Analects (5th century BC) -- Rene Descartes, Meditations (1641) -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Fate (1860) -- Epicurus, Letters (3rd century BC) -- Michel Foucault, The Order of Things (1966) -- Harry Frankfurt, On Bullshit (2005) -- Sam Harris, Free Will (2012) -- G.W.F. Hegel Phenomenology of Spirit (1803) -- Martin Heidegger, Being and Time (1927) -- Heraclitus, Fragments (6th century) -- David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748) -- William James, Pragmatism (1904) -- Daniel Kahneman, Thinking: Fast and Slow (2011) -- Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason (1781) -- Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling (1843) -- Saul Kripke, Naming and Necessity (1972) -- Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) -- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Theodicy (1710) -- John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690) -- Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage (1967) -- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince (1532) -- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859) -- Michel de Montaigne, Essays (1580) -- Iris Murdoch, The Sovereignty of Good (1970) -- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (1886) -- Blaise Pascal Pensees (1670) -- Plato, The Republic (4th century BC) -- Karl Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934) -- John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (1971) -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract (1762) -- Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness (1920) -- Michael Sandel, Justice (2009) -- Jean Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (1943) -- Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation (1818) -- Peter Singer, The Life You Can Save (2009) -- Baruch Spinoza, Ethics (1677) -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan (2007) -- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations (1953) -- Slavoj Zizek, Living In The End Times (2010) -- 50 More Philosophy Classics -- Glossary -- Credits

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