Philosophical tales /
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Malden, MA :
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Table of Contents:
- The tales
- The ancients
- Socrates the sorcerer (469 BCE)
- The different forms of Plato (circa 427-347 BCE)
- Aristotle the aristocrat (384 - circa 322 BCE)
- More ancients
- Lao Tzu changes into nothing (sixth to fifth century BCE)
- Heraclitus : the dark side of the river (c. fifth century BCE )
- Pythagoras counts up to ten (c. 570-495 BCE)
- Hypatia, holds up half of the sky (circa 70-415 CE)
- Medieval philosophy
- Augustine the Hippocrite (354 - 430 C.E.)
- Thomas Aquinas disputes the existence of God ( 1225-74)
- Modern philosophy
- Descartes the dilettante and more Descartes (1596-1650)
- Hobbes squares the circle (1588-1679)
- Spinoza grinds himself away ... (1632-1677)
- Enlightened philosophy
- John Locke invents the slave trade (1632-1704)
- The many faces of David Hume (1711-1776)
- Rousseau the rogue (1712-78)
- Kant, the chinaman of Knigsburg (and his rule-bound existence) (1724-1804)
- The idealists
- Gottfried Leibniz, the thinking machine (1646-1716)
- Bishop Berkeley's Bermuda College (1685-1753)
- Headmaster Hegel and the dangerous lesson of history (1770-1831)
- Arthur Schopenhauer and his landlady (1788-1860)
- The romantics
- The seduction of Soren Kierkegaard (1813- circa 1853)
- Mill's poetical turn (1806-73)
- Henry Thoreau and life in the shed (1817-1862)
- Marx's revolutionary materialism (1818-83)
- Recent philosophy
- Russell denotes domething (1872-1970)
- The ripping yarn of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
- Heidegger's tale (and the Nazis) (1889-1976)
- Sapir-whorf and the colour pinker (c.1900-1950)
- Being Sartre and not definitely not being De Beauvoir (1905-80 and not 1908-86)
- Deconstructing Derrida (1930-2005)