InhaltsangabeForward. How to Use this Book. [List of illustrations/ About the Pictures]. The Tales. The Ancients. 1. Socrates the Sorcerer (469 BC E). 2. The Different Forms of Plato ( circa 427-347 BCE). 3. Aristotle the Aristocrat (384 - circa 322 BCE). More Ancients. 4. Lao Tzu Changes into Nothing (sixth to fifth century BCE). 5. Heraclitus: the dark side of the river (c. fifth century BCE). 6. Pythagoras Counts Up to Ten (c570-495 BCE). 7. Hypatia, holds up half of the sky (circa 370-415 CE). Medieval Philosophy. 7. Augustine the Hippocrite (354 - 430 C.E.). 8. Thomas Aquinas disputes the Existence of God ( 1225-74). Modern Philosophy. 9. Descartes the Dilettante and More Des Cartes (1596-1650). 10. Hobbes Squares the Circle (1588-1679). 11. Spinoza grinds himself away. (1632-1677) Enlightened Philosophy. 12. John Locke invents the Slave Trade (1632-1704). 13. The Many Faces of David Hume 1711-1776. 14. Rousseau the Rogue (1712-78). 15. Kant, The Chinaman of Königsburg (and his rule-bound existence) (1724-1804). The Idealists. 16. Gottfried Leibniz - the thinking machine (1646-1716). 17. Bishop Berkeley's Bermuda College (1685-1753). 18. Headmaster Hegel - and the dangerous lesson of history (1770-1831). 19. Arthur Schopenhauer and his Landlady (1788-1860). The Romantics. 20. The Seduction of Søren Kierkegaard (1813- circa 1853). 21. Mill's Poetical Turn (1806-73). 22. Henry Thoreau and Life in the Shed (1817-1862). 23. Marx's revolutionary materialism (1818-83). Recent Philosophy. 24. Russell denotes Domething (1872-1970). 25. The Ripping Yarn of Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951). 26. Heidegger's Tale (and the Nazis) (1889-1976). 27. SapirWhorf and the colour Pinker (c.19001950). 28. Being Sartre and not definitely not being de Beauvoir (1905-80 and not 1908-86). 29. Deconstructing Derrida (1930-2005). 30. Appendix: Women in Philosophy, and Why There Aren't Many. Sources and Further Reading

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