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Actualitas: Philosophy-Art for the 21st Century
About this book
Philosophy offers more than a momentary diversion; it provides valuable insights for gaining personal control and making important decisions. Imagine a lone leaf drifting in an autumn breeze, coasting on an updraft before floating to the ground, eventually broken down by the elements and recirculated into the soil. Embracing personal responsibility without scapegoats exemplifies the essence of carpe diem â seize the day.
Throughout history, philosophy has grappled with the concept of fear, though modern times have seen this domain largely conceded to pseudosciences, often offering solutions through natural and synthetic drugs.
Aristotle had much to say about fear: 'âŠthe things we fear are fearful and such things are, broadly speaking, evils: e.g. disgrace, poverty, sickness, friendlessness, death⊠Probably one ought not to fear poverty or disease, nor in general anything that is not⊠one's own faultâŠ'
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Table of contents
- Actualitas: Philosophy-Art for the 21st Century
- About the Author
- Dedication
- Copyright Information ©
- Acknowledgment
- Your Authorâs Note
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Idealism: Philosophyâs Coin of the Realm
- Chapter 2 Metaphysics, Aristotle, and Theology
- Chapter 3 RenĂ© Descartesâ World
- Chapter 4 The Three Empiricists Locke, Berkeley, Hume
- Chapter 5 Immanuel Kant Last Major Effort to Bury Empiricism
- Chapter 6 Georg Hegel: Phenomenology, the Individual, and Freedom
- Chapter 7 Capitalism: The Seeding of Globalization and Science
- Chapter 8 The Historical Materialism of Karl Marx
- Chapter 9 Positivism, Sociology, Phrenology, and Science
- Chapter 10 Utility and the Utilitarians
- Chapter 11 Russia, Stalinism, and Marx
- Chapter 12 Arthur Schopenhauer and Psychotherapy
- Chapter 13 Friedrich Nietzsche and Deconstruction
- Chapter 14 The Mind: Henri Bergson, James, and Freud
- Chapter 15 The Pragmaticism of Charles S. Peirce And Its Promoter?
- Chapter 16 Logic: Aristotle, Frege, Russell, Moore, and Kurt Gödel
- Chapter 17 First Maxwell, Then Albert Einstein Changed Everything
- Chapter 18 Heidegger: A Priori Thinking from Dasein to Science to Illusion
- Chapter 19 Vienna Circleâs Moritz Schlick Before and After Wittgenstein
- Chapter 20 Logical Positivism Grows Metaphysics
- Chapter 21 Herding Cats: Ayer, Popper, Quine
- Chapter 22 Thomas Kuhn Once upon a Time in Science
- Chapter 23 Unmasking Induction
- Chapter 24 Philosophy of Science, Meet Assassination Science
- Chapter 25 Scientific Realism and Metaphysics?
- Chapter 26 From the Pineal Gland to the Science of Neurology
- Chapter 27 Fear and the Objectivism of Ayn Rand
- Chapter 28 Philosophy, Science, and Technology
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Glossary of Foreign Words and Phrases
- Endnotes