You Kant Make It Up!: Strange Ideas from History’s Greatest Philosophers
Gary Hayden
By a renowned writer of popular philosophy, this is a well put-together collection of the most intriguing philosophical thoughts and arguments from Socrates to the present day. Easy to follow, it is divided into 43 sections, each introducing the readers to a particular philosophical claim, explaining briefly an argument for and against it.
Why did Pythagoras think that everything is number? How did Descartes justify the thought that our minds are not located in space? Why was Hobbes sceptical about altruism? Was Kant right in arguing that the only thing that is good without qualification is a good will?
Provocative and inviting, it will make you rethink preconceptions you have about yourself and the world.
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