How to Think Like a Philosopher: Scholars, Dreamers and Sages Who Can Teach Us How to Live

Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Prologue
1: Lao Tzu: The Way to Tao
2: Sappho: Lover
3: Zeno of Elea: Tortoise Backer and Parmenidean Helper
4: Gadfly: aka ‘Socrates’
5: Plato: Charioteer, Magnificent Footnote Inspirer : ‘Nobody Does It Better’
6: Aristotle: Earth-Bound, Walking
7: Epicurus: Gardener, Curing the Soul, Ably Assisted by Lucretius
8: Avicenna: Flying Man, Unifier
9: Descartes: With Princess, With Queen
10: Spinoza: God-Intoxicated Atheist
11: Leibniz: Monad Man
12: Bishop Berkeley, ‘That Paradoxical Irishman’: Immaterialist, Tar-Water Advocate
13: David Hume: The Great Infidel or Le Bon David
14: Kant: Duty Calls, Categorically
15: Schopenhauer: Pessimism With Flute
16: John Stuart Mill: Utility Man, With Harriet, Soul-Mate
17: Søren Kierkegaard: Who?
18: Karl Marx: Hegelian, Freedom-Fighter
19: Lewis Carroll: Curiouser and Curiouser
20: Nietzsche: God-Slaying Jester, Trans-Valuer
21: Bertrand Russell: Radical, Aristocrat
22: G. E. Moore: Common-Sense Defender, Bloomsbury’s Sage
23: Heidegger: Hyphenater
24: Jean-Paul Sartre: Existentialist, Novelist, French
25: Simone Weil: Refuser and Would-Be Rescuer
26: Simone de Beauvoir: Situated, Protester, Feminist
27: Ludwig Wittgenstein: Therapist
28: Hannah Arendt: Controversialist, Journalist?
29: Iris Murdoch: Attender
30: Samuel Beckett: Not I
Epilogue
Dates of the Philosophers: including some additional –those with noteworthy mentions
Notes, References and Readings
Acknowledgements
In Memory
Name Index
Subhect Index