LEADER 04177nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910457194203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-30919-X 010 $a9786613309198 010 $a0-300-17754-2 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300177541 035 $a(CKB)2550000000057656 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24485775 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000538618 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11314679 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000538618 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10559085 035 $a(PQKB)11746661 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420746 035 $a(DE-B1597)485978 035 $a(OCoLC)759397366 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300177541 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420746 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10506564 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL330919 035 $a(OCoLC)923596782 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000057656 100 $a20110331d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA little history of philosophy$b[electronic resource] /$fNigel Warburton 210 $aNew Haven ;$aLondon $cYale University Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (288 p.) 225 0 $aLittle Histories 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-300-15208-6 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $t1. The Man Who Asked Questions -- $t2. True Happiness -- $t3. We Know Nothing -- $t4. The Garden Path -- $t5. Learning Not to Care -- $t6 Who Is Pulling Our Strings? -- $t7. The Consolation of Philosophy -- $t8. The Perfect Island -- $t9. The Fox and the Lion -- $t10. Nasty, Brutish, and Short -- $t11. Could You Be Dreaming? -- $t12. Place Your Bets -- $t13. The Lens Grinder -- $t14. The Prince and the Cobbler -- $t15. The Elephant in the Room -- $t16. The Best of All Possible Worlds? -- $t17. The Imaginary Watchmaker -- $t18. Born Free -- $t19. Rose-Tinted Reality -- $t20. What if Everyone Did That? -- $t21. Practical Bliss -- $t22. The Owl of Minerva -- $t23. Glimpses of Reality -- $t24. Space to Grow -- $t25. Unintelligent Design -- $t26. Life's Sacrifices -- $t27. Workers of the World Unite -- $t28. So What? -- $t29. The Death of God -- $t30. Thoughts in Disguise -- $t31. Is the Present King of France Bald? -- $t32. Boo!/Hooray! -- $t33. The Anguish of Freedom -- $t34. Bewitched by Language -- $t35. The Man Who Didn't Ask Questions -- $t36. Learning from Mistakes -- $t37. The Runaway Train and the Unwanted Violinist -- $t38. Fairness Through Ignorance -- $t39. Can Computers Think? -- $t40. A Modern Gadfly -- $tIndex 330 $aPhilosophy begins with questions about the nature of reality and how we should live. These were the concerns of Socrates, who spent his days in the ancient Athenian marketplace asking awkward questions, disconcerting the people he met by showing them how little they genuinely understood. This engaging book introduces the great thinkers in Western philosophy and explores their most compelling ideas about the world and how best to live in it.In forty brief chapters, Nigel Warburton guides us on a chronological tour of the major ideas in the history of philosophy. He provides interesting and often quirky stories of the lives and deaths of thought-provoking philosophers from Socrates, who chose to die by hemlock poisoning rather than live on without the freedom to think for himself, to Peter Singer, who asks the disquieting philosophical and ethical questions that haunt our own times.Warburton not only makes philosophy accessible, he offers inspiration to think, argue, reason, and ask in the tradition of Socrates. A Little History of Philosophy presents the grand sweep of humanity's search for philosophical understanding and invites all to join in the discussion. 606 $aPhilosophy$xHistory 606 $aPhilosophers 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPhilosophy$xHistory. 615 0$aPhilosophers. 676 $a190 700 $aWarburton$b Nigel$f1962-$0144507 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457194203321 996 $aA little history of philosophy$92450936 997 $aUNINA