LEADER 02954nam 2200433 450 001 9910791207603321 005 20230617034058.0 010 $a0-19-028931-7 010 $a0-19-972857-7 035 $a(CKB)2550000001204509 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24087534 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5746820 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001204509 100 $a20190624d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA brief history of the paradox $ephilosophy and the labyrinths of the mind /$fRoy Sorensen 210 1$aOxford ;$aNew York :$cOxford University Press,$d[2003] 210 4$dİ2003 215 $a1 online resource (412 p. ) $cnumerous line drawings 311 $a0-19-517986-2 330 $aCovers the entire history of philosophy, from the Greeks, through the Middle Ages, the Enlightenment, and the twentieth century, showing how individual philosophers have each grappled with a particular paradox 330 $bCan God create a stone too heavy for him to lift? Can time have a beginning? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Riddles, paradoxes, conundrums--for millennia the human mind has found such knotty logical problems both perplexing and irresistible. Now Roy Sorensen offers the first narrative history of paradoxes, a fascinating and eye-opening account that extends from the ancient Greeks, through the Middle Ages, the Enlightenment, and into the twentieth century. When Augustine asked what God was doing before He made the world, he was told: "Preparing hell for people who ask questions like that." A Brief History of the Paradox takes a close look at "questions like that" and the philosophers who have asked them, beginning with the folk riddles that inspired Anaximander to erect the first metaphysical system and ending with such thinkers as Lewis Carroll, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and W.V. Quine. Organized chronologically, the book is divided into twenty-four chapters, each of which pairs a philosopher with a major paradox, allowing for extended consideration and putting a human face on the strategies that have been taken toward these puzzles. Readers get to follow the minds of Zeno, Socrates, Aquinas, Ockham, Pascal, Kant, Hegel, and many other major philosophers deep inside the tangles of paradox, looking for, and sometimes finding, a way out. Filled with illuminating anecdotes and vividly written, A Brief History of the Paradox will appeal to anyone who finds trying to answer unanswerable questions a paradoxically pleasant endeavor. 606 $aParadox 606 $aParadoxes 615 0$aParadox. 615 0$aParadoxes. 676 $a165 700 $aSorensen$b Roy A.$0464350 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791207603321 996 $aA brief history of the paradox$93758707 997 $aUNINA