Philosophy for BeginnersWhy does philosophy give some people a headache, others a real buzz, and yet others a feeling that it is subversive and dangerous? Why do a lot of people think philosophy is totally irrelevant? What is philosophy anyway? The ABCs of philosophy - easy to understand but never simplistic. Beginning with basic questions posed by the ancient Greeks - "What is the world made of?" "What is man?" "What is knowledge?" "What is good and evil?" - this guide traces the development of these questions as the key to understanding how western philosophy developed over the last 2,500 years. |
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Absolute Idea abstract analytic philosophy Aquinas argued argument Aristotle Augustine became BEGINNERS bits bourgeois C.S.PEIRCE called century Christianity Church complex Comte critical culture democracy Derrida Descartes developed dialectic Duns Scotus economic empiricism Enlightenment ESSENCE ethics everything existence existentialism famous Frankfurt School freedom Frege Freud German Greek Hegel Hegelians Heidegger Hobbes human Hume Husserl idealism important individual influence intellectual Kant Kant's knowledge LABOUR language Leibniz LINGUISTICS lived Locke logical look Lukacs Machiavelli Marx Marxism mathematics meaning mediaeval metaphysics mind modern moral nature Nietzsche notion numbers object Papacy Plato Plotinus political philosophy post-structuralism Pragmatism principle problem produced radical rational reality reason rejected religion Renaissance Revolution Roman Empire Rousseau Sartre scepticism SCHOLASTICISM scientific seems social society Socrates soul Stoicism STRUCTURALIST structure synthesis Synthetic propositions theory Thesis things thinking thought tried truth universal Voltaire whole William of Occam Wittgenstein wrote YOUNG HEGELIANS
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An Introduction to Applied Linguistics: From Practice to Theory Alan Davies No preview available - 1999 |