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100 1 _aKołakowski, Leszek.
245 1 0 _aWhy is there something rather than nothing? :
_b questions from great philosophers /
_cLeszek Kołakowski ; translated by Agnieszka Kołakowska.
260 _aNew York :
_bPenguin Books,
_c2008
300 _ax, 289 p. ;
_c19 cm.
500 _aGratis "First published in three volumes in Poland as O co nas pytają wielcy filozofowie"--T.p. verso.
505 0 _aTruth 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 _aLeszek Kołakowski explores 23 questions asked by great philosophers, introducing us to the great ideas and philosophers of Western thought.
546 _aIn English, translated from the Polish.
650 0 _aPhilosophy.
700 1 _aKołakowska, Agnieszka.
856 4 2 _3Contributor biographical information
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