Philosophical Tales

Being an Alternative History Revealing the Characters, the Plots, and the Hidden Scenes That Make Up the True Story of Philosophy

Martin Cohen (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

2008
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-4051-4037-9 (ISBN)

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Did Plato really write those Socratic Dialogues - or was it Socrates after all? Why is it doubtful that Descartes ever really uttered, "I think, therefore I am"? And what did Sartre ever have against waiters, anyway? The history of philosophy is filled with great tales - many of them fictions, misrepresentations, falsehoods, lies and fibs.

Philosophical Tales

“A lover of philosophical ideas and practiced debunker of intellectual sham, Martin Cohen knocks some thirty important philosophers from Socrates to Derrida off their pedestals, and presents in a series of philosophical tales various aspects of their thought, life and personality which few of us ever suspected.”
Zenon Stavrinides, University of Bradford

Martin Cohen is a teacher and writer specializing in philosophy, ethics and education, with a special interest in computing. His books include 101 Philosophy Problems (2nd edn., 2001), Political Philosophy (2001), 101 Ethical Dilemmas (2003), and Wittgenstein's Beetle and Other Classic Thought Experiments (Blackwell, 2005). He has been editor of The Philosopher since 1995.

Forword! viii

How to Use this Book x

Philosophical Illustrations xiii

The Tales

I The Ancient 1

II More Ancients 27

III Medieval Philosophy 51

IV Modern Philosophy 73

V Enlightened Philosophy 97

VI The Idealists 139

VII The Romantics 179

VIII Recent Philosophy 205

Scholarly Appendix: Women in Philosophy, and Why there Aren't Many 251

Key Sources and Further Reading 259

Acknowledgments 268

Index 269

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.4.2008
Illustrationen	Raul Gonzalez
Verlagsort	Hoboken
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	449 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	1-4051-4037-2 / 1405140372
ISBN-13	978-1-4051-4037-9 / 9781405140379
Zustand	Neuware