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The philosophy book
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- ISBN: 9780756668617
- ISBN: 0756668611
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Physical Description:
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352 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. - Edition: 1st American ed.
- Publisher: New York : DK Pub., 2011.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Everyting is made of water--The Dao that can be told is not the eternal Dao--Number is the ruler of forms and ideas--Happy is he who has overcome his ego--Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles--Everything is flux--All is one--Man is the measure of all things--When one throws to me a peach, I return to him a plum--Nothing exists except atoms and emply space--The life which is unexamined is not worth living--Earthly knowledge is but shadow--Truth resides in the world around us--Death in nothing to us--He has the most who is most content with the least--The goal of life is living in agreement with nature--God is not a parent of evils--God foresees our free thoughts and actions--The soul is distinct from the body--Just by thinking about God we can know he exists--Philosophy and religion are not incompatible--God has no attributes--Don't grieve. Anything you lose come round in another form--The universe has not always existed--God is not-other--To know nothing is the happiest life--The end justifies the means--Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows--Knowledge is power--Man is a machine--I think therefore I am--Imagination decides everything--God is the cause of all things, which are in him--No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience--There are two kinds of truths:truths of reasoning and truths of fact--To be is to be perceived--Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certaintly is absurd--Custom is the great guide of human life--Man was born free yet everything he is in chains--Man is an animal that makes bargain--There are two worlds:our bodies and the external world--Society is indeed a contract--The greatest happiness for the greatest number--Mind has no gender--What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is--About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy--Reality is a historical process--Every Man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world--Theology is anthropology--Over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign--Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom--The history of all hitherto existing society is history of class struggles--Must citizen ever resign his conscience to the legislator?--Consider what effects things have--Act as if what you do makes a difference--Man is something to be surpassed--Men with self-confidence come and see and conquer--Every message is mode of signs--Experience by itself is not science--Intuition goes in the very direction of life--We only think when we are confronted with problems--Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it--It is only suffering that makes us persons--Believe in life--The road to happiness lies in an organized diminution of work--Love is a bridge from poorer to richer knowledge--Only as an individual can man become a philosopher--Life is a series of collisions with the future--To philosopize, first one must confess--The limits of my language are the limits of the world--We are ourselves the entities to be analyzed--The individual's only true moral choice is through self-sacrifice for the community--Logic is the last scientific ingredient of philosophy--The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope--That which is cannot be true--History does not belong to us but we belong to it--In so far as scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable--Intelligence is a moral category--Language is a skin--How would we manage without a culture?--Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory--The principles of justice are chosen behing a veil of ignorance--Art is a form of life--Anything goes--Knowledge is produced to be sold--For the black man, there is only one destiny, and it is white--Man is an invention of recent date--If we choose, we can live in a world of conformting illusion--Society is dependent upon a criticism of its own traditions--There is nothing outside of the text--There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put ourselves--Every desire has a relation to madness--Every empire tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires--Thought has always worked by opposition--Who plays God in present-day feminism?--Philosophy is not only a written enterprise--In suffering, the animals are our equals--All the best Marxist analyzes are always analyzes of a failure--Directory--Glossary--Index--Acknowledgments. |
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