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An entertaining guide to history's most fascinating philosophers from Sappho to Kant, and Aristotle to Simone de Beauvoir which seeks to help us answer life's big questions.

In showing how the great philosophers of human history lived and thought and what they thought about Peter Cave provides an accessible and enjoyable introduction to thinking philosophically and how it can change our everyday lives. He addresses questions such as: Is there anything out there' that gives meaning to our lives? Does reality tell us how we ought to live? What indeed is reality and what is appearance and how can we tell the difference?

This book paints vivid portraits of an assortment of inspiring thinkers: from Lao Tzu to Avicenna to Iris Murdoch; from Hannah Arendt to Socrates and Plato to Karl Marx; from Kierkegaard and Nietzsche to Sartre to Samuel Beckett and let us not forget Lewis Carroll for some thought-provoking fantasies and Ludwig Wittgenstein for the anguishes o

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      Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Publication Date: 4/11/2024
      ISBN13: 9781399405959, 978-1399405959
      ISBN10: 1399405950
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      An entertaining guide to history's most fascinating philosophers from Sappho to Kant, and Aristotle to Simone de Beauvoir which seeks to help us answer life's big questions.

      In showing how the great philosophers of human history lived and thought and what they thought about Peter Cave provides an accessible and enjoyable introduction to thinking philosophically and how it can change our everyday lives. He addresses questions such as: Is there anything out there' that gives meaning to our lives? Does reality tell us how we ought to live? What indeed is reality and what is appearance and how can we tell the difference?

      This book paints vivid portraits of an assortment of inspiring thinkers: from Lao Tzu to Avicenna to Iris Murdoch; from Hannah Arendt to Socrates and Plato to Karl Marx; from Kierkegaard and Nietzsche to Sartre to Samuel Beckett and let us not forget Lewis Carroll for some thought-provoking fantasies and Ludwig Wittgenstein for the anguishes o

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