The Philosophy Book

About this book

To the complete novice, learning about philosophy can be a cause for dread-"I won't understand" is a common reaction to the mere mention of the subject, which is often assumed to be too complex and confusing for the average reader. DK's The Philosophy Bookwill show that philosophy doesn't have to be a daunting subject. With the use of easy-to-follow graphics and artworks, succinct quotations, and thoroughly accessible text, this book cuts through the haze of misunderstanding surrounding the subject, untangling knotty theories and shedding light on abstract concepts. The book is organized as a history of philosophy. Each idea-and the philosopher who first voiced it-is placed chronologically, and is cross-referenced to earlier and later ideas. Contents The Ideas (336PP) Siddhartha Gautama Thales: "Know Thyself" Pythagoras Lao Tzu: "The Tao That Can Be Told Is Not The Eternal Tao" Confucius Heraclitus Parmenides Protagoras: "Man Is The Measure Of All Things" Zeno of Elea Socrates Plato: "Everything Is Becoming, Nothing Is" Aristotle Epicurus Zeno of Citium: "Happiness Is A Good Flow Of Life" Han Feizi Plotinus Augustine: "There Is No Salvation Outside The Church" Avicenna Averroes Thomas Aquinas William of Ockham Niccolo Machiavelli: "Reprehensible Actions May Be Justified By Their Effects" Francisco de Vitoria Francisco Suarez Francis Bacon Thomas Hobbes Rene Descartes: "I Think, Therefore I Am" Benedictus Spinoza John Locke Gottfried Leibniz George Berkeley David Hume: "Reason Is The Slave Of The Passions" Jean-Jacques Rousseau Immanuel Kant Edmund Burke Jeremy Bentham: "Every Law Is Contrary To Liberty" Johann Gottlieb Fichte Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: "Only In The State Does Man Have A Rational Existence" Arthur Schopenhauer Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling Auguste Comte Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Every Natural Fact Is A Symbol Of Some Spiritual Fact" Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach John Stuart Mill Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Karl Marx: "From Each According To His Ability, To Each According To His Need" Charles Sanders Peirce William James Friedrich Nietzsche: "Man Is Something To Be Surpassed" Gottlob Frege Edmund Husserl Henri Bergson Nishido Katara Bertrand Russell Jose Ortega y Gasset Ludwig Wittgenstein: "The Limits Of My Language Are The Limits Of My World" Martin Heidegger Rudolf Carnap Hans-Georg Gadamer Gilbert Ryle Karl Popper Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno Jean-Paul Sartre: "Man Is Condemned To Be Free" Willard Van Orman Quine Arne Dekke Eide Naess John Rawls Thomas Samuel Kuhn Michel Foucault Noam Chomsky: "Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously" Jurgen Habermas Jacques Derrida: "There Is Nothing Outside Of The Text" Richard Rorty Saul Kripke