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HOW TO THINK LIKE A PHILOSOPHER - PETER CAVE KA...

An entertaining guide to history's most fascinating philosophers - from Sappho to Kant  and
Aristotle to Simone de Beauvoir - which seeks to help us answer life's big questions.   In
showing how the great philosophers of human history lived and thought - and what they thought
about - Peter Cave provides an accessible and enjoyable introduction to thinking
philosophically and how it can change our everyday lives. He addresses questions such as: Is
there anything 'out there' that gives meaning to our lives? Does reality tell us how we ought
to live? What indeed is reality and what is appearance - and how can we tell the difference? 
This book paints vivid portraits of an assortment of inspiring thinkers: from Lao Tzu to
Avicenna to Iris Murdoch  from Hannah Arendt to Socrates and Plato to Karl Marx  from
Kierkegaard and Nietzsche to Sartre to Samuel Beckett - and let us not forget Lewis Carroll for
some thought-provoking fantasies and Ludwig Wittgenstein for the anguishes of a genius. As well
as displaying optimists and pessimists  believers and non-believers  the book displays
relevance to current affairs  from free speech to abortion to the treatment of animals to our
leaders' moral character.  Cave brings to life these often prescient  always compelling
philosophical thinkers  showing how their ways of approaching the world grew out of their own
lives and times and how we may make valuable use of their insights today. Now  more than ever 
we need to understand how to live  and how to understand the world around us.

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