Why is there something rather than nothing? :
Kołakowski, Leszek.
Why is there something rather than nothing? : questions from great philosophers / Leszek Kołakowski ; translated by Agnieszka Kołakowska. - New York : Penguin Books, 2008 - x, 289 p. ; 19 cm.
Gratis
"First published in three volumes in Poland as O co nas pytają wielcy filozofowie"--T.p. verso.
Truth and the good: why do we do evil?: Socrates -- Being and non-being: what is real?: Parmenides of Elea -- Change, conflict and harmony: how does the cosmos work?: Heraclitus of Ephesus -- The good and the just: what is the source of truth?: Plato -- Life in accordance with nature: can it make us happy?: Epictetus of Hierapolis -- Knowledge and belief: can we know anything?: Sextus Empiricus -- God and man: what is evil?: St Augustine -- God's necessity: could God not exist?: St Anselm -- Knowledge, faith and the soul: is the world good?: St Thomas Aquinas -- What there is: do ideas exist?: William of Ockham -- God, the world and our minds: how can we achieve certainty?: René Descartes -- The nature of God: do we have free will?: Benedict Spinoza -- God and the world: why is there something rather than nothing?: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz -- Faith: why should we believe?: Blaise Pascal -- Reason, freedom and equality: what did God endow us with?: John Locke -- Perception and causality: what can we know?: David Hume -- Reason, necessity and morality: how is knowledge possible?: Immanuel Kant -- History and the absolute: progress without good and evil?: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -- World, will and sex: should we commit suicide?: Arthur Schopenhauer -- God and faith: do we need the church?: Sören Aabye Kierkegaard -- The will to power: is there good and evil?: Friedrich Nietzsche -- Consciousness and evolution: what is the human spirit?: Henri Bergson -- The foundations of certainty: what can we know and how can we know it?: Edmund Husserl.
Leszek Kołakowski explores 23 questions asked by great philosophers, introducing us to the great ideas and philosophers of Western thought.
In English, translated from the Polish.
9780141035253
Philosophy.
190 KOL
Why is there something rather than nothing? : questions from great philosophers / Leszek Kołakowski ; translated by Agnieszka Kołakowska. - New York : Penguin Books, 2008 - x, 289 p. ; 19 cm.
Gratis
"First published in three volumes in Poland as O co nas pytają wielcy filozofowie"--T.p. verso.
Truth and the good: why do we do evil?: Socrates -- Being and non-being: what is real?: Parmenides of Elea -- Change, conflict and harmony: how does the cosmos work?: Heraclitus of Ephesus -- The good and the just: what is the source of truth?: Plato -- Life in accordance with nature: can it make us happy?: Epictetus of Hierapolis -- Knowledge and belief: can we know anything?: Sextus Empiricus -- God and man: what is evil?: St Augustine -- God's necessity: could God not exist?: St Anselm -- Knowledge, faith and the soul: is the world good?: St Thomas Aquinas -- What there is: do ideas exist?: William of Ockham -- God, the world and our minds: how can we achieve certainty?: René Descartes -- The nature of God: do we have free will?: Benedict Spinoza -- God and the world: why is there something rather than nothing?: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz -- Faith: why should we believe?: Blaise Pascal -- Reason, freedom and equality: what did God endow us with?: John Locke -- Perception and causality: what can we know?: David Hume -- Reason, necessity and morality: how is knowledge possible?: Immanuel Kant -- History and the absolute: progress without good and evil?: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -- World, will and sex: should we commit suicide?: Arthur Schopenhauer -- God and faith: do we need the church?: Sören Aabye Kierkegaard -- The will to power: is there good and evil?: Friedrich Nietzsche -- Consciousness and evolution: what is the human spirit?: Henri Bergson -- The foundations of certainty: what can we know and how can we know it?: Edmund Husserl.
Leszek Kołakowski explores 23 questions asked by great philosophers, introducing us to the great ideas and philosophers of Western thought.
In English, translated from the Polish.
9780141035253
Philosophy.
190 KOL