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A Dictionary of Philosophical Quotations / Edition 1

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ISBN-10:: 0631194789
ISBN-13:: 9780631194781
Pub. Date:: 08/08/1994
Publisher:: Wiley

ISBN-10:: 0631194789
ISBN-13:: 9780631194781
Pub. Date:: 08/08/1994
Publisher:: Wiley

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Overview

The dictionary shows philosophers at their best (and their worst), at their most perverse and their most elegant. Organised by philosopher, and indexed by thought, concept and phrase, it enables readers to discover who said what, and what was said by whom. Over 300 philosophers are represented, from Aristotle to Zeno, including Einstein, Aquinas, Sartre and De Beauvoir, and the quotations range from short cryptic phrases to longer statements.
This Dictionary of Philosophical Quotations will not change your life. It will change your mind.

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ISBN-13:	9780631194781
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	08/08/1994
Series:	Blackwell Reference Series
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	544
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.05(h) x 1.14(d)

About the Author

A. J. Ayer was also Wykeham Professor of Logic at Oxford University. His many distinguished books include Language, Truth and Logic, The Problems of Knowledge, The Concept of a Person and Other Essays, and works on Bertrand Russell and Thomas Paine.

Jane O'Grady studied Philosophy at University College, London. After teaching for some years she worked as a literary journalist, columnist and short-story writer. She has published a book of short stories and articles entitled Obsessions.

Publishers Note.

Introduction.

List of Contributors.

Acknowledgements.

The Dictionary: A-Z.

Glossary.

Index.

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"Everybody should have a copy." Auberon Waugh, The Sunday Telegraph

"The spread of philosophers is huge - more than 330 jostle in the book ... I cannot think of any figure who is missing from this roll-call ... this is not really a book of quotations as we know it but something far more mighty." Literary Review

"The most surprising philosophers do come across. One gets a fair impression of Derrida, and the quotations from Adorno present a whole philosophy in brief digestible form." Times Literary Supplement

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"Everybody should have a copy." Auberon Waugh, The Sunday Telegraph
"The spread of philosophers is huge - more than 330 jostle in the book ... I cannot think of any figure who is missing from this roll-call ... this is not really a book of quotations as we know it but something far more mighty." Literary Review

"The most surprising philosophers do come across. One gets a fair impression of Derrida, and the quotations from Adorno present a whole philosophy in brief digestible form." Times Literary Supplement

From the Publisher

Here is Sir Karl Popper's reminder that ``the history of science is a history of irresponsible ideas . . . and of error''--which he says is a good thing. Here, too, is Pascal's insight that ``man is only a reed . . . but he is a thinking reed'' and Aristotle's advice that ``piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.'' But this is an uneven book. While the late Sir Alfred Ayer's coeditor included three pages of his portentous sayings (and none of his witty ones), John Henry Newman and the Cambridge Platonists are nowhere to be found, the British Idealists are reduced to a mere trace, and Nicolas Malebranche gets only a paragraph. About a third of the book is taken up with recent analytic philosophers, many of whom will be forgotten before the book is out of print. The quotations are organized alphabetically by author, and the general reader--to whom many recent figures will be strange--must work hard to use it. Of course, readers may be better off with the names they do recognize, and Plato, Kant, Aquinas, Aristotle, Descartes, Locke, and Hume are well represented.-- Leslie Armour, Univ. of Ottawa , Ontario

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A Dictionary of Philosophical Quotations / Edition 1

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