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Zusatztext This entertaining and intelligent book of quotations is an excellent introduction to a vast and complex history of thought in the Western world that will leave you wiser for having read it. Informationen zum Autor Gary Cox has a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Birmingham, UK, where he is also an Honorary Research Fellow. Klappentext Gary Cox guides us through 42 of the most misunderstood, misquoted, provocative and significant quotes in the history of philosophy providing a witty and compelling commentary along the way. This entertaining and illuminating collection of quotes doesn't merely list who said what and when, it explores who each philosopher is and what he or she really meant when they said what they said. Viewing each quote as a philosophical thesis in itself, Cox probes the writings of everyone from Douglas Adams to A.J. Ayer and Thomas Aquinas to Karl Marx. This is a philosophical journey through history, culture and writing to bring us to a deeper understanding of why we think the way we do. As Douglas Adams points out, if there is no final answer to the question, 'What is the meaning of life?', '42' is as good or bad an answer as any other. Here Cox shows that 42 quotes might be even better!An entertaining and illuminating journey through the history of thought using some of philosophy’s most important quotes Zusammenfassung Gary Cox guides us through 42 of the most misunderstood, misquoted, provocative and significant quotes in the history of philosophy providing a witty and compelling commentary along the way. This entertaining and illuminating collection of quotes doesn’t merely list who said what and when, it explores who each philosopher is and what he or she really meant when they said what they said.Viewing each quote as a philosophical thesis in itself, Cox probes the writings of everyone from Douglas Adams to A.J. Ayer and Thomas Aquinas to Karl Marx. This is a philosophical journey through history, culture and writing to bring us to a deeper understanding of why we think the way we do.As Douglas Adams points out, if there is no final answer to the question, 'What is the meaning of life?', '42' is as good or bad an answer as any other. Here Cox shows that 42 quotes might be even better! Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceAcknowledgements IntroductionPhilosophers Quoted (A-Z)1 Douglas Adams2 Anselm 3 Thomas Aquinas 4 Aristotle5 A. J. Ayer6 George Berkeley7 Albert Camus8 Simone de Beauvoir9 René Descartes 10 George Hegel11 Martin Heidegger12 Heraclitus 13 Thomas Hobbes 14 David Hume 15 David Hume16 Immanuel Kant 17 Immanuel Kant18 John Keats 19 Søren Kierkegaard20 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 21 John Locke 22 J. L. Mackie23 Karl Marx24 John Stuart Mill 25 Friedrich Nietzsche 26 Friedrich Nietzsche27 William of Ockham28 William Paley 29 Parmenides 30 Blaise Pascal 31 Plato 32 Plato33 Protagoras34 Bertrand Russell 35 Gilbert Ryle36 Jean-Paul Sartre37 Jean-Paul Sartre 38 François Marie Arouet de Voltaire39 Mary Warnock40 Alfred North Whitehead41 Ludwig Wittgenstein42 Ludwig Wittgenstein42 Fantastic Philosophy Quotes Explained BibliographyIndex ...
