Story of philosophy

The Story of Philosophy

Autor: Bryan Magee Nakladatelství: Dorling Kindersley Ltd Počet stran: 240 Vazba: Tvrdá Rozměry: 202 x 240 mm Datum vydání: 2. 5. 2016 ISBN: 9780241241264

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The Story of Philosophy

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Story of Philosophy

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Medieval Philosophy

Presenting the history of Western philosophy, this book charts the story of philosophy from the founders of Christian and Islamic thought through to t

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Classical Philosophy

In 43 lively chapters Peter Adamson tells the story of philosophy from its beginnings to Plato and Aristotle. Most histories jump from one famous name

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Classical Philosophy

In 43 lively chapters Peter Adamson tells the story of philosophy from its beginnings to Plato and Aristotle. Most histories jump from one famous name

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American Horror Story and Philosophy

Deep thinkers plumb the chilling depths of American horror

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Rise of Modern Philosophy

Anthony Kenny's engaging new history of Western philosophy now advances into the modern era.The Rise of Modern Philosophyis the fascinating story of t

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Ancient Philosophy

Tells the story of the birth of philosophy and its remarkable flourishing in the ancient Mediterranean world. This is the first of four volumes, which

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French Philosophy in the Twentieth Century

This book tells, clearly and comprehensively, the story of French philosophy in the twentieth century, from its early preoccupations with spiritualism

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Pocket Philosophy: Zhuangzi's Butterfly

The Pocket Philosophy series introduces readers of all ages to the biggest names in philosophy. Zhuangzi's story of the dreaming philosopher and the b

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Idealism in Modern Philosophy

This book tells the story of idealism in modern philosophy, from the seventeenth century to the turn of the twenty-first. Guyer and Horstmann discuss

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Modern Moral Philosophy

This magisterial study tells the story of a new way of doing ethics, starting in the seventeenth century, that was based on secular ideas of human psy

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Pocket Philosophy: Heidegger's Lizard

The Pocket Philosophy series introduces readers of all ages to the biggest names in philosophy. In this story, Heidegger is exploring the relationship

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Philosophy and Football

Philosophy and Football: The PFFC Story is the extraordinary account of how a Sunday League team was transformed through European travel into a club m

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German Philosophy 1760–1860

In this book Terry Pinkard interweaves the story of 'Germany' - changing during this period from a collection of principalities to a newly-emerged nat

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Golden Age of Indian Buddhist Philosophy

Jan Westerhoff unfolds the story of one of the richest episodes in the history of Indian thought, the development of Buddhist philosophy during the fi

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How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy (1783782307)

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The Dream of Enlightenment : The Rise of Modern Philosophy - Gottlieb Anthony

Anotace: The author of the celebrated The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought from Descartes to RousseauIn a short period - from the early 1640s to the eve of the French Revolution - Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, and Hume all made their mark on Western thought. The Dream of Enlightenment tells their story and that of the birth of mod...

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Earth, the Gods and the Soul - a History of Pagan Philosophy

Philosophy was invented by pagans. Yet this fact is almost always ignored by those who write the history of ideas. This book tells the history of the pagan philosophers, and the various places where their ideas appeared, from ancient times to the 21st century. The Pagan philosophers are a surprisingly diverse group: from kings of great empires to exiled lonely wanderers, ...

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Bytí – Existence – A Philosophy for Life - Josef Zezulka

Josef Zezulka was born on 30th March, 1912 in Brno; he lived and worked in Prague, Czech Republic. At Easter 1945, at his 33, his life was unusually and mysteriously changed. He experienced an extraordinary state of open consciousness. He said: "It was as if I recalled something I had known before and forgotten". He received two gifts. The gift of spirit - to kn...

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Dune and Philosophy - Minds, Monads, and Muad'Dib

Explore the universe of Frank Herbert's Dune in all its philosophical richness"He who controls the spice controls the universe." Frank Herbert's Dune saga is the epic story of Paul, son of Duke Leto Atreides, and heir to the massive fortune promised by the desert planet Arrakis and its vast reservoirs of a drug called "spice." To control the spice, Paul and his mother Jes...

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Little Prince

A gorgeous hardback gift edition of The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exup©ry's delightful story of humanity, philosophy and the stars, fully illus

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Little Prince

A beautiful, fully illustrated gift edition of The Little Prince, Antione de Saint-Exupéry's delightful story of humanity, philosophy and the stars.

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Little Prince

A beautiful, fully colour-illustrated gift edition of The Little Prince, Antione de Saint-Exupéry's delightful story of humanity, philosophy and the

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Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food - Fuchsia Dunlop

<p>'A brilliant, passionate and spellbinding tour de force' Claudia Roden'Fuchsia Dunlop is one of the world's best writers on Chinese food' Ken Hom CBE The epic tale of the world's most sophisticated gastronomic culture, told through a banquet of thirty Chinese dishesChinese was the earliest truly global cuisine. When the first Chinese labourers began to sojourn a...

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Fall of the Argosi

A brilliant story of adventure, wit and philosophy from the origins of the SPELLSLINGER series to enrapture devotees as well as newcomers alike. New

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Fall of the Argosi

A brilliant story of adventure, wit and philosophy from the origins of the SPELLSLINGER series to enrapture devotees as well as newcomers alike. New

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Way of the Argosi

THE ALCHEMIST meets THE THREE MUSKETEERS - with card tricks. A brilliant origin story of adventure, wit and philosophy to enrapture devotees as well a

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History of Ancient Greece in 50 Lives

Tells the Greek story through the interconnecting lives of the men and women who shaped its politics and literature, its science and philosophy, its a

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Way of the Argosi (1471405540)

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Fall of the Argosi (1471405575)

Kniha - autor Sebastien de Castell, 400 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná The Alchemist meets The Three Musketeers - with card tricks - in the first of two prequels to the best-selling Spellslinger series. A brilliant origin story of adventure, wit, and philosophy to enrapture devotees as well as newcomers to the series. Ferius Parfax has a simple plan: Kill...

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera

<p>A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon; a man torn between his love for her and his womanising. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals; while her other lover stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities. In a world where lives are shaped by choices and events, and everything occurs but once, existence...

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The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir - RuPaul

Anotace: From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date-a brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance, found family, and self-acceptance. A profound introspec...

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The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir - RuPaul

<p>From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date-a brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance, found family, and self-acceptance. A profound introsp...

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The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day (anglicky) - Terry Pratchett

Anotace: The fourth book in the Science of Discworld series, and this time around dealing with The Really Big Questions, Terry Pratchett's brilliant new Discworld story Judgement Day is annotated with very big footnotes (the interleaving chapters) by mathematician Ian Stewart and biologist Jack Cohen, to bring you a mind-mangling combination of fiction, cutting-edge scie...

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Hands of Time: A Watchmaker´s History of Time. ´An exquisite book´ - STEPHEN FRY - Struthers Rebecca

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Hands of Time: A Watchmaker´s History of Time. ´An exquisite book´ - STEPHEN FRY - Rebecca Struthers

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Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna and the Discovery of the Modern Mind - Tallis Frank

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The Happiest Man on Earth : The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor, 1. vydání - Eddie Jaku

<p>‘Eddie looked evil in the eye and met it with joy and kindness . . . [his] philosophy is life-affirming’ – Daily Express Holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku made a vow to smile every day and believed he was the ‘happiest man on earth’. In his inspirational memoir, he paid tribute to those who were lost by telling his story and sharing his wisdom. Life can be beautiful...

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Martin Heidegger

The story of HeideggerÂ’s life and philosophy, a quintessentially German story in which good and evil, brilliance and blindness are inextricably entwi

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Mark Rothko

This unique portrait of Mark Rothko captures his astonishing use of color as it illustrates the story of his life, career, struggles, and philosophy.

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Frank Skinner Autobiography

Winner of the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Festival, Frank Skinner's humour is a mixture of laddishness and philosophy. This is the story of the hig

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Frankenstein

The most celebrated horror story ever written. The dreadful tale of Victor Frankenstein, a visionary young student of natural philosophy, who discover

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Novel Minds

Eighteenth-century philosophy owes much to the early novel. Using the figure of the romance reader this book tells a new story of eighteenth-century r

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Frankenstein

The most celebrated horror story ever written. The dreadful tale of Victor Frankenstein, a visionary young student of natural philosophy, who discover

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Soul Mountain

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2000. Part travel diary, part philosophy, part love story, ‘Soul Mountain’ is an elegant, unforgettable nov

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Los Leones

Los Leones tells the incredible story of the unique Basque club. AthleticÂ’s rich history and Basque-only philosophy causes intrigue across the footba

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Plato and Googleplex - Goldsteinová Rebecca

Anotace: Is philosophy obsolete? Are the ancient questions still relevant in the age of cosmology and neuroscience, not to mention crowd-sourcing and cable news? The acclaimed philosopher and novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein provides a dazzlingly original plunge into the drama of philosophy, revealing its hidden role in today s debates on religion, morality, politics...

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At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails (0099554887)

Kniha - autor Sarah Bakewell, 440 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Paperback edition of the personal journey through the story of modern existentialism, which blends philosophy with biography. Focuses on Paris in 1933 as Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Raymond Aron devised a radical new way of thinking. As read on BBC Radio 4's "Book Of The Week"....

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Far from the Madding Crowd - Hardy Thomas

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Far from the Madding Crowd, 1. vydání - Thomas Hardy

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The Fountainhead - Randová Ayn

Anotace: Her first major literary success, Ayn Rand`s The Fountainhead is an exalted view of her Objectivist philosophy, portraying a visionary artist struggling against the dull, conformist dogma of his peers; a book of ambition, power, gold and love, published in Penguin Modern Classics.Architect Howard Roark is as unyielding as the granite he blasts to build with. Def...

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The Fountainhead - Ayn Randová

<p>Her first major literary success, Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead is an exalted view of her Objectivist philosophy, portraying a visionary artist struggling against the dull, conformist dogma of his peers; a book of ambition, power, gold and love, published in Penguin Modern Classics.Architect Howard Roark is as unyielding as the granite he blasts to build with. Defy...

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Siddharta (0141189576)

Kniha - autor Hermann Hesse, 120 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Hermann Hesse's moving and inspirational chronicle of spiritual evolution, Siddhartha, includes a new introduction by bestselling author Paulo Coehlo in Penguin Classics. Siddhartha is perhaps the most important and compelling moral allegory our troubled century has produced. Integrating E...

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Stoicism: A Very Short Introduction - Brad Inwood

<p>Stoicism is two things: a long past philosophical school of ancient Greece and Rome, and an enduring philosophical movement that still inspires people in the twenty-first century to re-think and re-organize their lives in order to achieve personal satisfaction. What is the connection between them? This Very Short Introduction provides an introductory account of ...

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The Journey : A Big Panda and Tiny Dragon - Norbury James

Anotace: `We shall go on a journey, across the river . . .`Join Big Panda and Tiny Dragon as they set off on an extraordinary adventure in this companion to the global bestselling phenomenon Big Panda and Tiny Dragon.Although content in their temple high up in the mountains, Tiny Dragon realises that something feels incomplete. So it is that they decide to make a journey...

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The Journey : A Big Panda and Tiny Dragon - James Norbury

<p>The beautifully illustrated new adventure from cherished friends and Sunday Times bestsellers BIG PANDA AND TINY DRAGON'We shall go on a journey, across the river . . .'Join Big Panda and Tiny Dragon as they set off on an extraordinary adventure in this companion to the global bestselling phenomenon Big Panda and Tiny Dragon.Although content in their temple high ...

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The Jungle Books - Kipling Rudyard

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Make Peace with Your Plate

In Make Peace With You, Jessica Ainscough recounts her personal transformation from self-confessed party-girl and cancer patient to wellness warrior. The former editor of Dolly online had her life turned upside down at the age of 22, when she was diagnosed with a rare type of cancer, epithelioid sarcoma. Told that her only option was to amputate her arm and that even then...

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