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20200127171002.0 |
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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090622s2007 nyu 000 0 eng d |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
9780141035253 |
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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(OCoLC)ocn154711798 |
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APL |
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MSO |
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041 1# - LANGUAGE CODE |
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eng |
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pol |
042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
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lccopycat |
082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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190 KOL |
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Kołakowski, Leszek. |
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
Why is there something rather than nothing? : |
Remainder of title |
questions from great philosophers / |
Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Leszek Kołakowski ; translated by Agnieszka Kołakowska. |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New York : |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Penguin Books, |
Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2008 |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Extent |
x, 289 p. ; |
Dimensions |
19 cm. |
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
General note |
Gratis<br/>"First published in three volumes in Poland as O co nas pytają wielcy filozofowie"--T.p. verso. |
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
Formatted contents note |
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. |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
Summary, etc. |
Leszek Kołakowski explores 23 questions asked by great philosophers, introducing us to the great ideas and philosophers of Western thought. |
546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE |
Language note |
In English, translated from the Polish. |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Philosophy. |
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Kołakowska, Agnieszka. |
856 42 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
Materials specified |
Contributor biographical information |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0913/2009278555-b.html">http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0913/2009278555-b.html</a> |
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