The Philosophy Book

Contents 6......Page 8
10 INTRODUCTION......Page 12
22 Everything is made of water......Page 24
24 The Dao that can be told is not the eternal Dao......Page 26
26 Number is the ruler of forms and ideas......Page 28
30 Happy is he who has overcome his ego......Page 32
34 Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles......Page 36
40 Everything is flux......Page 42
41 All is one Parmenides......Page 43
42 Man is the measure of all things Protagoras......Page 44
44 When one throws to me a peach, I return to him a plum Mozi......Page 46
45 Nothing exists except atoms and empty space......Page 47
46 The life which is unexamined is not worth living......Page 48
50 Earthly knowledge is but shadow Plato......Page 52
56 Truth resides in the world around us Aristotle......Page 58
64 Death is nothing to us......Page 66
66 He has the most who is most content with the least......Page 68
67 The goal of life is living in agreement with nature......Page 69
72 God is not the parent of evils......Page 74
74 God foresees our free thoughts and actions......Page 76
76 The soul is distinct from the body Avicenna......Page 78
80 Just by thinking about God we can know he exists......Page 82
82 Philosophy and religion are not incompatible......Page 84
84 God has no attributes......Page 86
86 Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form......Page 88
88 The universe has not always existed......Page 90
96 God is the not-other......Page 98
97 To know nothing is the happiest life......Page 99
102 The end justifies the means......Page 104
108 Fame and tranquillity can never be bedfellows......Page 110
110 Knowledge is power......Page 112
112 Man is a machine......Page 114
116 I think therefore I am......Page 118
124 Imagination decides everything Blaise Pascal......Page 126
126 God is the cause of all things, which are in him......Page 128
130 No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience John Locke......Page 132
134 There are two kinds of truths: truths of reasoning and truths of fact......Page 136
138 To be is to be perceived......Page 140
146 Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd Voltaire......Page 148
148 Custom is the great guide of human life David Hume......Page 150
154 Man was born free yet everywhere he is in chains......Page 156
160 Man is an animal that makes bargains......Page 162
164 There are two worlds: our bodies and the external world......Page 166
172 Society is indeed a contract......Page 174
174 The greatest happiness for the greatest number......Page 176
175 Mind has no gender......Page 177
176 What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is......Page 178
177 About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy......Page 179
178 Reality is a historical process Georg Hegel......Page 180
186 Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world......Page 188
189 Theology is anthropology......Page 191
190 Over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign......Page 192
194 Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom......Page 196
196 The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles......Page 198
204 Must the citizen ever resign his conscience to the legislator?......Page 206
205 Consider what effects things have......Page 207
206 Act as if what you do makes a difference......Page 208
214 Man is something to be surpassed......Page 216
222 Men with self-confidence come and see and conquer......Page 224
223 Every message is made of signs......Page 225
224 Experience by itself is not science Edmund Husserl......Page 226
226 Intuition goes in the very direction of life......Page 228
228 We only think when we are confronted with problems......Page 230
232 Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it......Page 234
233 It is only suffering that makes us persons......Page 235
234 Believe in life William du Bois......Page 236
236 The road to happiness lies in an organized diminution of work Bertrand Russell......Page 238
240 Love is a bridge from poorer to richer knowledge......Page 242
241 Only as an individual can man become a philosopher......Page 243
242 Life is a series of collisions with the future......Page 244
244 To philosophize, first one must confess......Page 246
246 The limits of my language are the limits of my world......Page 248
252 We are ourselves the entities to be analyzed......Page 254
256 The individual’s only true moral choice is through self-sacrifice for the community......Page 258
257 Logic is the last scientific ingredient of philosophy......Page 259
258 The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope......Page 260
259 That which is cannot be true Herbert Marcuse......Page 261
260 History does not belong to us but we belong to it......Page 262
262 In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable Karl Popper......Page 264
266 Intelligence is a moral category Theodor Adorno......Page 268
268 Existence precedes essence......Page 270
272 The banality of evil......Page 274
273 Reason lives in language......Page 275
274 In order to see the world we must break with our familiar acceptance of it......Page 276
276 Man is defined as a human being and woman as a female......Page 278
278 Language is a social art......Page 280
280 The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains Isaiah Berlin......Page 282
282 Think like a mountain......Page 284
284 Life will be lived all the better if it has no meaning......Page 286
290 Language is a skin......Page 292
292 How would we manage without a culture?......Page 294
293 Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory Thomas Kuhn......Page 295
294 The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance......Page 296
296 Art is a form of life......Page 298
297 Anything goes......Page 299
298 Knowledge is produced to be sold......Page 300
300 For the black man, there is only one destiny and it is white Frantz Fanon......Page 302
302 Man is an invention of recent date......Page 304
304 If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion Noam Chomsky......Page 306
306 Society is dependent upon a criticism of its own traditions Jürgen Habermas......Page 308
308 There is nothing outside of the text......Page 310
314 There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves Richard Rorty......Page 316
320 Every desire has a relation to madness Luce Irigaray......Page 322
321 Every empire tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires......Page 323
322 Thought has always worked by opposition......Page 324
323 Who plays God in present-day feminism?......Page 325
324 Philosophy is not only a written enterprise......Page 326
325 In suffering, the animals are our equals......Page 327
326 All the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure......Page 328
330 DIRECTORY......Page 332
340 GLOSSARY......Page 342
344 INDEX......Page 346
351 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 353