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Introducing Bertrand Russell: A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson; Judy Groves
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Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Bertrand Russell changed Western philosophy forever. He tackled many puzzleshow our minds work, how we experience the world, and what the true nature of meaning is. In Introducing Bertrand Russell we meet a passionate eccentric, active in world politics, who had outspoken views on sex, marriage, religio ...Show more
Introducing Descartes by Dave Robinson
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Introducing Descartes is a clear and accessible guide to all the puzzling questions he asked about human beings and their place in the world.
Introducing Descartes: A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson
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Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Introducing... S.
"Introducing Descartes" explains why he is usually called the father of modern philosophy. It is a clear and accessible guide to all the puzzling questions that Descartes asked about human beings and their place in the world. It gives a lucid account of Descartes' contributions to modern science, mathem ...Show more
Introducing Empiricism: A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson
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Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Introducing...
Our knowledge comes primarily from experience - what our senses tell us. But is experience really what it seems? The experimental breakthroughs in 17th-century science of Kepler, Galileo and Newton informed the great British empiricist tradition, which accepts a 'common-sense' view of the world - and ye ...Show more
Introducing Ethics by Dave Robinson (illus Chris Garratt)
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Introducing Ethics traces the arguments of the great moral thinkers, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Kant and others, and brings us up to date with postmodern critics. Ethics has become the burning issue of current moral philosophical thought. This is because it raises the spectre of responsibili ...Show more
Introducing Ethics - A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson, Chris Garratt
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Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Introducing... Ser. | Reading Level: very good
What is the place of individual choice and consequence in a post-Holocaust world of continuing genocidal ethnic cleansing? Is "identity" now a last-ditch cultural defense of ethnic nationalisms and competing fundamentalisms? In a climate of instant information, free markets and possible ecological disas ...Show more
Introducing Ethics for Everyday Life: a Practical Guide by Dave Robinson
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Category: Introducing & Short History Series
A Practical Guide to applying the philosophy of ethics to real life.
Introducing Kierkegaard by Dave Robinson
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Introducing Kierkegaard by Dave Robinson
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Soren Kierkegaard is regarded as the founder of Existentialism and the first modern theologian. Philosophy, in Kierkegaard's radical view, was of no use unless it permanently changed people's lives. His distrust of grand abstract schemes, particularly Hegel's, and his insistence that philosophy is essen ...Show more
Introducing Kierkegaard: A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson
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Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Introducing...
Father of existentialism or the Eeyore of philosophy? Known as the first modern theologian, Soren Kierkegaard was a prolific writer of the Danish 'golden age'. A philosopher, poet and social critic, his key concepts of angst, despair, and the importance of the individual, influenced many 20th-century ph ...Show more
Introducing Philosophy by Dave Robinson (illus Judy Groves)
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Category: Introducing & Short History Series
Philosophers have always enjoyed asking awkward but very important questions such as: What is the nature of reality? What are human beings really like? What is special about human minds and consciousness? To what extent are we free to choose who we are and what we do? Can we prove that God exists? Can w ...Show more
Introducing Philosophy: A Graphic Guide by Dave Robinson, Judy Groves
$16.99 AUD
Category: Introducing & Short History Series | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Philosophers have always enjoyed asking awkward and provocative questions, such as: What is the nature of reality? What are human beings really like? What is special about the human mind and consciousness? Are we free to choose who we are and what we do? Can we prove that God exists? Can we be certain a ...Show more