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Philosophical quotes and what they mean
Alain Stephen.
224 pages.
Content includes: On Happiness - Bentham -- Mill -- Hobbes -- Plato -- Aristotle -- Kant -- Democritus -- On Religion and Faith - Machiavelli -- Nietzsche -- Voltaire -- Marx -- Kierkegaard -- Bacon -- St Augustine -- On Reason and Experience - Hegel -- Locke -- Wittgenstein -- Kant -- Sartre -- Seneca -- On Life and Death - Socrates -- Euripides -- Dawkins -- Epicurus -- Nabokov -- Aeschylus -- Swift -- Parker -- Brecht -- The Bhagavad Gita -- On People and Society - Thatcher -- Einstein -- Marcus Aurelius -- Darwin -- Lao-Tzu -- Nietzsche -- Rousseau -- Sontag -- Camus.
Summary: Examining the best-known quotes of the world's most highly regarded philosophers, Alain Stephen explains the theories behind the thoughts. Including statements from, among others, Socrates, Plato, Locke, Kant and Marx, this book explores the people reponsible and how they contributed to the development of philosophy. (Back cover)