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About this book
Have you ever found yourself alone with your thoughts? Have you ever been asked if the glass is half full or half empty? Do you wonder what true happiness is or how to attain it? Or maybe nothing really matters if everything is just an illusion or a dream? These ideas are some of the central questions of philosophical enquiry that have engaged, troubled and exasperated some of the greatest minds throughout the history of human civilization, provoking argument and debate in an attempt to broaden the horizons of human thought.Author Alain Stephen seeks to explore some of these key questions by tracing their origins in the writings of prominent thinkers through the ages, from the colonnades of ancient Greece to the intellectual salons of twentieth-century France, and show how these ideas and concepts have developed over time. Why We Think the Things We Think provides plenty of food for thought for both the amateur philosopher and enlightened thinker to digest.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- By the same author
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication page
- Contents
- Introduction: philosophy in a nutshell?
- Why is there something rather than nothing?
- What is morality?
- Do we have free will?
- Is beauty in the eye of the beholder?
- Can we ever experience anything objectively?
- What is art?
- How do we know that our experience of consciousness is the same as other peopleās?
- How do we tell the difference between right and wrong?
- What is bad faith?
- Is the glass half full or half empty?
- What is happiness?
- What is freedom?
- If there are gods, why do they allow suffering?
- Do animals have rights?
- What is time?
- If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
- Is too much better than not enough?
- Is there a difference between living and being alive?
- Is it better to love than to be loved?
- Do we have a soul?
- Should duty come before pleasure?
- Are there universal truths?
- What are āthe means of productionā?
- Are there questions that science cannot answer?
- Do words have meanings?
- Is there such a thing as destiny and fate?
- Has history ended?
- Is there life after death?
- Conclusion: in a nutshell
- Acknowledgements
- Selected Bibliography
- Index