I Think, Therefore I Am

All the Philosophy You Need to Know

Lesley Levene

• Publisher: Michael O'Mara
• Year: 2010
• ISBN:
  9781843176015
• Topic: Filosofia
• Subtopic: Storia e teoria della filosofia

Philosophers certainly like to make life sound awfully complicated, whether they're wondering if a falling tree still makes a sound if there's nobody around to hear it (Berkeley) or declaring that everything in the universe is in a state of flux (Heraclitus). But is philosophy really so complicated? And is it really as irrelevant as it sometimes seems? I Think, Therefore I Am is the ideal way to take the fear out of philosophy. Written in an accessible and highly entertaining style, this book explains how and why philosophy began, and how, from Greek democracy to Communism, the ways in which we live, learn, argue, vote and even spend our money have their origins in philosophical thought. Covering the biggest names, including Socrates, Seneca, St Augustine, Descartes, Marx and Nietzsche, I Think Therefore I Am provides a handle for all the main -isms and -ologies.

INDEX

Principal locations for entries are shown in bold.

a priori, (i), (ii)

Abbasids, (i)

Abraham,(Bible) (i)

Academy, The: Aristotle (i); closed (i); Plato founds (i), (ii); Zeno of Citium (i)

‘Achilles and the tortoise’, (i)

Adler, Alfred, (i), (ii)

aer (i)

aesthetics, (i), (ii)

Agora, the, (i)

Akademos, (i)

Alexander the Great, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Alexandria, (i)

al-Farabi, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Allah, (i)

analytic philosophy, (i)

Anaxagoras, (i), (ii), (iii)

Anaximander, (i), (ii), (iii)

Anaximenes, (i)

Andronicus of Rhodes, (i)

angst, (i)

Anselm, St (i)

anthropomorphism, (i)

apeiron, (i)

Apollo Lycaeus, (i)

Apology, (Plato) (i)

Aquinas, Thomas, (i), (ii)

Aristophanes, (i)

Aristotle:, (i), (ii); al-Farabi, (i); Aquinas, (i); Averroes, (i); Avicenna, (i); ‘Big Three’, (i); Islamic translations, (i); Maimonides, (i), (ii); medieval universities, (i); Neoplatonism, (i); Thales, (i); twelfth-century Renaissance, (i); William of Ockham, (i); Zeno of Elea, (i)

Arrian, (i)

atheism: Hume, (i); Leibniz, (i); Locke, (i); Sartre, (i); Schopenhauer, (i)

Athens: Anaxagoras, (i); centre for philosophy, (i); Macedon and, (i); Marcus Aurelius, (i); Plato’s Academy, (i); Protagoras, (i); Romans and, (i); Sparta and, (i); Zeno of Elea, (i)

atomism, (i), (ii), (iii)

Augustine of Hippo, St, (i), (ii)

Aurelius, Marcus, (i), (ii), (iii)

‘Auto-Icon’, (i)

Averroes (i), (ii), (iii)

Avicenna, (i), (ii), (iii)

Ayer, A. J., (i)

Babylonia, (i), (ii), (iii)

Bacon, Roger, (i)

Baghdad, (i)

Being and Nothingness (Jean-Paul Sartre), (i)

Being and Time (Martin Heidegger), (i)

Bentham, Jeremy, (i), (ii), (iii)

Berkeley, George, (i), (ii)

Beyond Good and Evil (Friedrich Nietzsche), (i)

Bible, (i), (ii)

Bierce, Ambrose, (i)

Black Sea colonies, (i), (ii)

Blackstone, Sir William, (i)

Bloomsbury Group, (i), (ii)

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