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How was the universe created? What is truth? How can we live a virtuous life?
Since the dawn of history, humans have been asking such important questions, as well as others related to the nature of life and existence - and great thinkers propose answers that constantly shape our world.
Written in simple and understandable language, this book is full of concise yet comprehensive and easily understandable explanations, diagrams that step-by-step explain complex theories, classic memorable philosophical quotes, and it is further enriched with clever illustrations that vividly depict human views on the big philosophical issues.
Whether you are a beginner, an enthusiastic student, or an advanced scholar, Philosophy in Plain Words will provide you with abundant intellectual nourishment.
The book examines the main philosophical theories from ancient times to the present day.
Specifically, you will get to know the theories of philosophers:
- from the ancient world: Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Confucius, Siddhartha Gautama, and more.
- from the Middle Ages: Saint Augustine, Avicenna, Thomas Aquinas, and more.
- from the Renaissance and the Age of Reason: Machiavelli, Hobbes, Descartes, Spinoza, and more.
- from the era of revolution (1750-1900): Voltaire, Adam Smith, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Marx, and more.
- from the period 1900-1950: Nietzsche, Sartre, Ortega y Gasset, Benjamin, Marcuse, Popper, Adorno, Camus, and more.
- from the period from 1950 to the present day: Roland Barthes, Thomas Kuhn, Lyotard, Chomsky, Kristeva, Zizek, and more.
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Very good, although better in the English version. If you are really interested in how things are, meaning metaphysics above all, you should study science (physics, astrophysics, artificial neural networks, neuroscience, etc.). Philosophy helps you understand how persuasion and common sense are used to assume the world, while these are subjective and non-neutral tools. Philosophy helps us understand how humans try to comprehend the world, which is not the same as how the world actually is. Some philosophers accept science, but not all and not completely, so philosophy is always closer to the average person due to its comprehensible formulations, and further away from the scientific approach to what is true. It is not enough to claim objectivity like a liar in order to be objective. Physics is the field of study for understanding the natural world, it is not the natural world itself. Philosophy is even further away from what is true. It provides a way of life, but sometimes it is mistaken and biased towards ideas, as it encompasses numerous ideas and non-objective criteria for judgment (common sense, persuasion, non-mathematical contemplation, non-mathematically logically consistent and non-causal correlation of truth that thus generates illusions, ideophilia, etc.). Ideas are necessary, but without objective criteria for judgment, they become ideological to cultures.
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