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Philosophy on the Go.
Title:
Philosophy on the Go.
Author:
Green, Joey.
ISBN:
9780762434053
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (274 pages)
Contents:
Table of Contents -- Introduction -- What is Philosophy? -- What Socrates Said -- Famous Philosophy Majors -- Complex Philosophic Ideas Made Simple -- Plato vs. Play-Doh -- Those Darn Dialogues -- Nagging Question #1: How Many Philosophers Does It Take To Change a Light Bulb? -- Everyone Loves Aristotle -- What Aristotle Said -- Philosophy's Greatest Hits -- The Myth of the Cave -- The Universe and Reality -- Philosophy Goes Hollywood: The World According to Animal House -- Fun With Philosophy: Zeno's Paradoxes -- What Is Reality? -- Philosophy Goes Hollywood: Reality According to the Wizard of Oz -- What Were They Thinking?: Man -- Crazy Over Confucius -- What Confucius Said -- I Am -- Philosophy Goes Hollywood: The Phenomenology of Dark Star -- Freaky Philosophers -- Who Does Man Think He Is Anyway? -- Philosophy -- What Were They Thinking? Good Versus Evil -- Bringing Home the Bacon -- What Bacon Said (Or Bacon Bits) -- Hard-Boiled Philosophy -- The Golden Rule According to Ten World Religions -- The Golden Rule According to Ten Philosophers -- Nagging Question #2: "Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty?" -- Who Says I Kant? -- What Kant Said -- Just What Is Good and Evil? -- Does God Exist? -- "God is dead." -- Oh Yeah? Prove God Exists! -- The World's Greatest Philosophers -- What's Happening With Hobbes -- What Hobbes Said -- Nagging Question #3: Can God Make A Rock So Big That Even He Can't Lift It? -- What They Said About God -- Fate Vs. Free Will -- No Metamorphosis -- Desperately Seeking Descartes -- What Descartes Said -- Philosophies That Failed -- Nagging Question #4: Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? -- Taking Spinoza For a Spin -- What Spinoza Said -- The Soul and Death -- Philosophy Kills -- Hangin' With Hume -- What Hume Said -- Where Is The Soul Located? -- Beware of Voltaire -- What Voltaire Said -- Take the Nestea Plunge.

Grave Issues: Where Are the Great Philosophers of All Time Buried? -- What They Said About Death -- Modern Philosophy -- Nasty Nietzsche -- What Nietzsche Said -- Overman Versus the Nazi Menace -- Ideas About Ideas -- The Shirley Partridge Philosophy -- Cuckoo for Kierkegaard -- What Kierkegaard Said -- What They Said About Ideas -- Smart Babes: Nine Female Philosophers -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
Abstract:
Wildly entertaining, the fun and informative lessons delve into the philosophies of ancient and moderns alike.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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