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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Julian Baggini |
ISBN: | 9781783784837 1783784830 9781783782284 1783782285 |
OCLC Number: | 1019991743 |
Description: | xxxiii, 398 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | pt. One How the World Knows -- 1. Insight -- 2. The ineffable -- 3. Theology or philosophy? -- 4. Logic -- 5. Secular reason -- 6. Pragmatism -- 7. Tradition -- 8. Conclusion -- pt. Two How the World Is -- 9. Time -- 10. Karma -- 11. Emptiness -- 12. Naturalism -- 13. Unity -- 14. Reductionism -- 15. Conclusion -- pt. Three Who in the World Are We? -- 16. No-self -- 17. The relational self -- 18. The atomised self -- 19. Conclusion -- pt. Four How the World Lives -- 20. Harmony -- 21. Virtue -- 22. Moral exemplars -- 23. Liberation -- 24. Transience -- 25. Impartiality -- 26. Conclusion -- pt. Five Concluding Thoughts -- 27. How the world thinks -- 28.A sense of place. |
Responsibility: | Julian Baggini. |
Abstract:
The first ever global overview of philosophy: how it developed around the world and impacted the cultures in which it flourished.
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