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S'està carregant… 50 Philosophy Ideas You Really Need to Know (50 Ideas You Really Need to… (edició 2014)de Ben Dupre (Autor)
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   No n'hi ha cap No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra.  Langri_Tangpa_Centre | Dec 6, 2019 |  Good concept, but as someone who understands almost *nothing* about philosophy coming in, the structure is difficult to get. (  ) Alexander.Zawadzki | Jun 1, 2019 | Supercondensed summary of some key philosophical ideas, useful to someone like me who fled from the topic after one exposure in college. The book's primary benefit may be that it makes one want to read more. (  ) annbury | Oct 29, 2012 | This is a well-written primer for non-philosophical types as well as a great memory-jogger for philosophy buffs. I was surprised by how well it tackled a wide variety of topics. (  ) heina | May 17, 2010 | Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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Have you ever lain awake at night fretting over how we can be sure of the reality of the external world? Perhaps we are in fact disembodied brains, floating in vats at the whim of some deranged puppet-master? If so, you are not alone - and what's more, you are in exalted company. For this question and others like it have been the stuff of philosophical rumination for centuries, from Plato to Popper. In a series of accessible and engaging essays, 50 Philosophy Ideas You Really Need to Know introduces and explains the problems of knowledge, consciousness, identity, ethics, belief, justice and aesthetics that have troubled the minds of great thinkers for centuries, from the ancient Greeks to the present day. Contents include: The brain in a vat, Plato's cave, Cogito ergo sum, The mind-body problem, The boo/hurrah theory, Ends and means, The categorical imperative, Acts and omissions, The rights of animals, The gambler's fallacy, Paradigm shifts, Occam's razor, Positive and negative freedom, Theories of punishment and Just war. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Have you ever lain awake at night fretting over how we can be sure of the reality of the external world? Perhaps we are in fact disembodied brains, floating in vats at the whim of some deranged puppet-master?
If so, you are not alone - and what's more, you are in exalted company. For this question and other ones like it have been the stuff of philosophical rumination from Plato to Popper.
In a series of accessible and engaging short lectures delivered in the deep chocolate tones of reader Laurence Kennedy, 50 Philosophy Ideas You Really Need to Know introduces and explains the problems of knowledge, consciousness, identity, ethics, belief, justice, and aesthetics that have engaged the attention of thinkers from the era of the ancient Greeks to the present day.