According to Socrates, knowledge is "food for the soul." That's all well and good for the Socratic, but, according to Abraham Maslow, food for the stomach is a far more pressing matter. But why can't you have your talk, and cook rice too? With "The Philosopher's Table", Marietta…
Philosophers think - they think about thinking and they think about how we think about the world, about how we conceive of ourselves, about how we possess a sense of right and wrong, about how we find meaning in life (if we do). This text might not help you to think like a bat, …
Philosophers think - they think about thinking and they think about how we think about the world, about how we conceive of ourselves, about how we possess a sense of right and wrong, about how we find meaning in life (if we do). This text might not help you to think like a bat, …
Pour qui se pique de philosophie, l'abeille est un sujet de choix. Aucun animal n'a davantage fasciné les hommes. Les penseurs de toutes les époques et de toutes les civilisations ont cherché dans la ruche les secrets de la nature et les mystères de la culture, comme si elle éta…
Pour qui se pique de philosophie, l'abeille est un sujet de choix. Aucun animal n'a davantage fasciné les hommes. Les penseurs de toutes les époques et de toutes les civilisations ont cherché dans la ruche les secrets de la nature et les mystères de la culture, comme si elle éta…
"Both entertaining and startling, The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten offers one hundred philosophical puzzles that stimulate thought on a host of moral, social, and personal dilemmas. Taking examples from sources as diverse as Plato and Steven Spielberg, author Julian Baggini presen…
Offers one hundred philosophical puzzles that stimulate thought on a host of moral, social, and personal dilemmas. Taking examples from sources as diverse as Plato and Descartes to Ray Bradbury and Steven Spielberg, author Julian Baggini presents abstract philosophical issues in…
