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How to Think Like a Philosopher - Scholars, Dreamers and Sages Who Can Teach Us How to Live (Paperback)
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How to Think Like a Philosopher - Scholars, Dreamers and Sages Who Can Teach Us How to Live (Paperback)
Series: How To Think
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Loot Price R385
Discovery Miles 3 850
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In showing how the great philosophers of human history lived and
thought - and what they thought about - the popular philosopher
Peter Cave provides an accessible and enjoyable introduction to
thinking philosophically and how it can change our everyday lives.
With a lightness of touch, 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. In each brief
chapter, 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. This is the perfect guide.
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