50 Philosophy Classics

Author : Tom Butler-Bowdon
Publisher : Nicholas Brealey
ISBN 13 : 1473644453
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 50 Philosophy Classics written by Tom Butler-Bowdon and published by Nicholas Brealey. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over 2000 years, philosophy has been our best guide to the experience of being human, and the true nature of reality. From Aristotle, Plato, Epicurus, Confucius, Cicero and Heraclitus in ancient times to 17th century rationalists Descartes, Leibniz and Spinoza, from 20th-century greats Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Baudrillard and Simone de Beauvoir to contemporary thinkers Michael Sandel, Peter Singer and Slavoj Zizek, 50 Philosophy Classics explores key writings that have shaped the discipline and had an impact on the real world. Philosophy can no longer be confined to academia, and 50 Philosophy Classics shows how powerful it can be as a tool for opening our minds and helping us think. Whether you are fascinated or daunted by the big questions of how to think, how to be, how to act and how to see, this is the perfect introduction to some of humanity's greatest minds and their landmark books.

Author : Tom Butler-Bowdon
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1857889444
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 50 Philosophy Classics written by Tom Butler-Bowdon and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over 2000 years, philosophy has been our best guide to the experience of being human, and the true nature of reality. From Aristotle, Plato, Epicurus, Confucius, Cicero and Heraclitus in ancient times to 17th century rationalists Descartes, Leibniz and Spinoza, from 20th-century greats Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Baudrillard and Simone de Beauvoir to contemporary thinkers Michael Sandel, Peter Singer and Slavoj Zizek, 50 Philosophy Classics explores key writings that have shaped the discipline and had an impact on the real world. Philosophy can no longer be confined to academia, and 50 Philosophy Classics shows how powerful it can be as a tool for opening our minds and helping us think. Whether you are fascinated or daunted by the big questions of how to think, how to be, how to act and how to see, this is the perfect introduction to some of humanity's greatest minds and their landmark books.

Author : Tom Butler-Bowdon
Publisher : Nicholas Brealey
ISBN 13 : 1857884752
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 50 Spiritual Classics written by Tom Butler-Bowdon and published by Nicholas Brealey. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A kaleidoscope of inspiration that lets the reader delve into the ideas of many of our great spiritual thinkers.

Author : Tom Butler-Bowdon
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1857884736
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 50 Psychology Classics written by Tom Butler-Bowdon and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the key wisdom and figures of psychology's development over 50 books, hundreds of ideas, and a century of time.

Author : Tom Butler-Bowdon
Publisher : Nicholas Brealey
ISBN 13 : 1399804340
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 50 Philosophy Classics written by Tom Butler-Bowdon and published by Nicholas Brealey. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over 2000 years, philosophy has been our best guide to the experience of being human, and the true nature of reality. From Aristotle, Plato, Epicurus, Confucius, Cicero and Heraclitus in ancient times to 17th century rationalists Descartes, Leibniz and Spinoza, from 20th-century greats Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Baudrillard and Simone de Beauvoir to contemporary thinkers Michael Sandel, Peter Singer and Slavoj Zizek,50 Philosophy Classics explores key writings that have shaped the discipline and had an impact on the real world. This is the thinking person's guide to a uniquely powerful tool for opening our minds and helping us view the world. It synthesises the 50 greatest books ever written, distilling hundreds of ideas from across the centuries with insightful commentary, key quotes and biographical information on the authors. The revised edition will: · include 7 new contemporary or timely classics such as Judith Butler's Gender Trouble, Michael Sandel's The Tyranny of Merit, Isaiah Berlin's The Hedgehog and the Fox and Mary Midgely's Myths We Live By. · include a reader code to access a free pack of downloadable bonus material · have a revised introduction to reflect on the current relevance of philosophy today with topical themes to have emerged in the 9 years since the last edition was written. · have some of the less relevant titles removed "50 Philosophy Classics is an impressively wide-ranging compendium of nutshell clarity. It strikes just the right balance between contextual analysis, and breezy illustrative anecdote." Dr Phil Oliver, Department of Philosophy, Middle Tennessee State University, USA

Author : Tom Butler-Bowdon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781473643772
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 50 Philosophy Classics written by Tom Butler-Bowdon and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning survey of the "king of disciplines," 50 Philosophy Classics seeks to enlighten and explain, rather than merely instruct. Tom Butler-Bowdon has compiled a remarkable group of thinkers and their seminal works to serve as a lively entry point to the field of philosophy. Analyses of ancient and modern philosophers show how philosophy helped shape the events human history.

Author : Tom Butler-Bowdon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781399800976
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 50 Philosophy Classics written by Tom Butler-Bowdon and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over 2000 years, philosophy has been our best guide to the experience of being human, and the true nature of reality. From Aristotle, Plato, Epicurus, Confucius, Cicero and Heraclitus in ancient times to 17th century rationalists Descartes, Leibniz and Spinoza, from 20th-century greats Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Baudrillard and Simone de Beauvoir to contemporary thinkers Michael Sandel, Peter Singer and Slavoj Zizek, 50 Philosophy Classics explores key writings that have shaped the discipline and had an impact on the real world. This is the thinking person's guide to a uniquely powerful tool for opening our minds and helping us view the world. It synthesises the 50 greatest books ever written, distilling hundreds of ideas from across the centuries with insightful commentary, key quotes and biographical information on the authors. The revised edition will: - include 7 new contemporary or timely classics such as Judith Butler's Gender Trouble, Michael Sandel's The Tyranny of Merit, Isaiah Berlin's The Hedgehog and the Fox and Mary Midgely's Myths We Live By. - include a reader code to access a free pack of downloadable bonus material - have a revised introduction to reflect on the current relevance of philosophy today with topical themes to have emerged in the 9 years since the last edition was written. - have some of the less relevant titles removed "50 Philosophy Classics is an impressively wide-ranging compendium of nutshell clarity. It strikes just the right balance between contextual analysis, and breezy illustrative anecdote." Dr Phil Oliver, Department of Philosophy, Middle Tennessee State University, USA

Author : Tom Butler-Bowdon
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1857889525
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 50 Politics Classics: Freedom Equality Power written by Tom Butler-Bowdon and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore politics through 50 classic books and influential writers who produced mind changing ideas and world changing political thought.

Author : Ben Dupre
Publisher : Quercus
ISBN 13 : 1623651891
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 50 Philosophy Ideas You Really Need to Know written by Ben Dupre and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever lain awake at night worried about 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 puppetmaster. 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 engagingly written 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 engaged the attention of thinkers from the era of the ancient Greeks to the present day.

Author : Tom Butler-Bowdon
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1857884760
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 50 Success Classics written by Tom Butler-Bowdon and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the all-time classic books that have helped millions of people achieve success in their work and personal lives.