Description
| Product ID: | 9781782430247 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | I Used to Know That ... |
| Title: | I Think, Therefore I Am |
| Subtitle: | All the Philosophy You Need to Know |
| Authors: | Author: Lesley Levene |
| Page Count: | 192 |
| Subjects: | Popular philosophy, Popular philosophy |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating I Think, Therefore I Am is the ideal way to take the fear out of philosophy. Written in an accessible and entertaining style,I Think, Therefore I Am explains how and why philosophy began, and how the ways in which we live, learn, argue, vote and even spend our money have their origins in philosophical thought. <p><b>Covering the biggest names, including Socrates, Seneca, St Augustine, Descartes, Marx and Nietzsche, I Think Therefore I Am provides a handle for all the main -isms and -ologies of western philosophy.</b><br><br>Philosophers certainly like to make life sound awfully complicated – whether they're wondering if a falling tree still makes a sound if there's nobody around to hear it (Berkeley) or declaring that everything in the universe is in a state of flux (Heraclitus) – but is philosophy really so complicated? And is it really as irrelevant as it sometimes seems?<br><br><i>I Think, Therefore I Am</i> is the ideal way to take the fear out of philosophy. Written in an accessible and highly entertaining style, this book explains how and why philosophy began, and how, from Greek democracy to Communism, the ways in which we live, learn, argue, vote and even spend our money have their origins in philosophical thought.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Michael O'Mara Books Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Michael O'Mara Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2013-04-04 |
