A Little History of Philosophy
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A LITTLE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
N I G E L WA R B U RT O N
A LITTLE HISTORY of
PHILOSOPHY
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
NEW HAVEN AND LONDON
Copyright ? 2011 Nigel Warburton
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Warburton, Nigel, 1962? ?... A little history of philosophy/Nigel Warburton. ?...?... p. cm ?... ISBN 978?0?300?15208?1 (cl:alk. paper) ?... 1. Philosophy--History. 2. Philosophers. I. Title. ?... B72.W365 2011
?... 190--dc22
2011013537
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Contents
1 The Man Who Asked Questions
1
Socrates and Plato
2 True Happiness
9
Aristotle
3 We Know Nothing
15
Pyrrho
4 The Garden Path
22
Epicurus
5 Learning Not to Care
28
Epictetus, Cicero, Seneca
6 Who Is Pulling Our Strings?
34
Augustine
7 The Consolation of Philosophy
40
Boethius
8 The Perfect Island
46
Anselm and Aquinas
vi
contents
? 9 The Fox and the Lion
51
Niccol? Machiavelli
10 Nasty, Brutish, and Short
57
Thomas Hobbes
11 Could You Be Dreaming?
62
Ren? Descartes
12 Place Your Bets
69
Blaise Pascal
13 The Lens Grinder
76
Baruch Spinoza
14 The Prince and the Cobbler
81
John Locke and Thomas Reid
15 The Elephant in the Room
87
George Berkeley (and John Locke)
16 The Best of All Possible Worlds?
93
Voltaire and Gottfried Leibniz
17 The Imaginary Watchmaker
99
David Hume
18 Born Free
105
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
19 Rose-Tinted Reality
110
Immanuel Kant (1)
20 What if Everyone Did That?
115
Immanuel Kant (2)
21 Practical Bliss
121
Jeremy Bentham
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22 The Owl of Minerva
126
Georg W.F. Hegel
23 Glimpses of Reality
132
Arthur Schopenhauer
24 Space to Grow
138
John Stuart Mill
25 Unintelligent Design
145
Charles Darwin
26 Life's Sacrifices
152
S?ren Kierkegaard
27 Workers of the World Unite
158
Karl Marx
28 So What?
164
C.S. Peirce and William James
29 The Death of God
171
Friedrich Nietzsche
30 Thoughts in Disguise
176
Sigmund Freud
31 Is the Present King of France Bald?
183
Bertrand Russell
32 Boo!/Hooray!
190
A.J. Ayer
33 The Anguish of Freedom
196
Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and
Albert Camus
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