Short Introductions To the Ideas of Western Philosophy

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	"Graphic history of logical ideas, from Aristotle to Alan Turing, and beyond!"

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	"Graphic history of philosophical ideas, from Socrates and Plato to Wittgenstein and Derrida."

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	"Succinct yet comprehensive course on moral and political philosophy from the Professor of Government at Harvard."

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	"Insightful examination of the philosophy of mind and persons from the prolific British philosopher."

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	"Difficult but invaluable treatment of the limitations of scientific and philosophical perspectives for viewing the world."

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	"Graphic history of philosophical and scientific ideas about the nature of time- profound."

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	"Questions concerning God and miracles from the prominent Dominican priest and head of Blackfriars College, Oxford."

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	"Stunning overview of the greatest rationalist philosopher and the originator of the philosophical Enlightenment."

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	"Graphic history of the other great philosopher of the enlightenment, who dramatically influenced modern democracy, anarchism, fascism and communism, and was the founder of pedagogy."

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	"Dense but rewarding overview of the greatest critic of early modern and Christian philosophy. He wrote about natural selection and subconscious desires before Darwin or Freud."

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	"Like Schopenhauer, Hegel was a critic of Kant, but was an optimist rather than a pessimist. The most systematic and imposing philosopher since Aristotle."

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	"Like Hegel, Kierkegaard was a Christian but he rejected the former's grand metaphysical view in favour of a world of subjective meaning. Founder of both modern theology and Existentialism"

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	"Like Kierkegaard, Marx reacted against the impracticality of Hegel's philosophy, but from a social, rather than individual perspective. This is a perspicious explication of his great ideas."

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	"More a critic than an originator of ideas, he first championed Schopenhauer's pessimistic atheism, then explored human subjectivity in the vien of Kierkeggard."

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	"Wittgenstein had similar influences to Nietzsche but belonged to the Anglophone tradition where he developed Ordinary Language philosophy, which advocates dispelling confusions through clarity."

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	"An existentialist, his ideas are difficult and nebulous but profound and wide-ranging. Developed Phenomenology and influenced Poststructuralism."

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	"As Ordinary Language is the key movement in contemporary Anglophone thought, so is Poststructuralism the key movement in contemporary French and German philosophy; it too is about problems of language"

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	"Psychoanalyst disciple, then critic of Freud. His thought is indispensible to contemporary concepts of the self, spirituality and human nature."

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	"As a Freudian he was influential in the same areas as Jung, but as a poststructuralist he developed the ideas of the mind as a language and the inexistence of the self."

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	"The leading exponent of Postructuralism, Derrida is the most recent of the great philosophers. As Wittgenstein revolutionised our understanding of language in the 1930s-60s, Derrida did in the 70s-00s"

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	"Feminism is the most influential philosophical movement after Marxism, but its impact is much more geographically limited. Women still own less than 1% of the world’s property."

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	"Absolute poverty is rife in many areas of the world and is growing. It affects children and women the worst and is a major concern of moral and social philosophy."

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	"Climate change is the greatest practical problem mankind has faced in history. This book explains the scientific evidence behind it, the philosophical implications of it, and the actions to take."

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	"Like climate change, the problem of overpopulation will change the way the world works and will hit the poor the worst, causing wars and mass human extinction."