50 Philosophy Classics: Revised Edition
For over 2000 years, philosophy has been our best guide to the experience of being human, and the true nature of reality.

From Aristotle, Plato, Epicurus, Confucius, Cicero and Heraclitus in ancient times to 17th century rationalists Descartes, Leibniz and Spinoza, from 20th-century greats Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Baudrillard and Simone de Beauvoir to contemporary thinkers Michael Sandel, Peter Singer and Slavoj Zizek,50 Philosophy Classics explores key writings that have shaped the discipline and had an impact on the real world.

This is the thinking person's guide to a uniquely powerful tool for opening our minds and helping us view the world. It synthesises the 50 greatest books ever written, distilling hundreds of ideas from across the centuries with insightful commentary, key quotes and biographical information on the authors.

The revised edition will:
· include 7 new contemporary or timely classics such as Judith Butler's Gender Trouble, Michael Sandel's The Tyranny of Merit, Isaiah Berlin's The Hedgehog and the Fox and Mary Midgely's Myths We Live By.
· include a reader code to access a free pack of downloadable bonus material
· have a revised introduction to reflect on the current relevance of philosophy today with topical themes to have emerged in the 9 years since the last edition was written.
· have some of the less relevant titles removed

"50 Philosophy Classics is an impressively wide-ranging compendium of nutshell clarity. It strikes just the right balance between contextual analysis, and breezy illustrative anecdote."
Dr Phil Oliver, Department of Philosophy, Middle Tennessee State University, USA
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50 Philosophy Classics: Revised Edition
For over 2000 years, philosophy has been our best guide to the experience of being human, and the true nature of reality.

From Aristotle, Plato, Epicurus, Confucius, Cicero and Heraclitus in ancient times to 17th century rationalists Descartes, Leibniz and Spinoza, from 20th-century greats Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Baudrillard and Simone de Beauvoir to contemporary thinkers Michael Sandel, Peter Singer and Slavoj Zizek,50 Philosophy Classics explores key writings that have shaped the discipline and had an impact on the real world.

This is the thinking person's guide to a uniquely powerful tool for opening our minds and helping us view the world. It synthesises the 50 greatest books ever written, distilling hundreds of ideas from across the centuries with insightful commentary, key quotes and biographical information on the authors.

The revised edition will:
· include 7 new contemporary or timely classics such as Judith Butler's Gender Trouble, Michael Sandel's The Tyranny of Merit, Isaiah Berlin's The Hedgehog and the Fox and Mary Midgely's Myths We Live By.
· include a reader code to access a free pack of downloadable bonus material
· have a revised introduction to reflect on the current relevance of philosophy today with topical themes to have emerged in the 9 years since the last edition was written.
· have some of the less relevant titles removed

"50 Philosophy Classics is an impressively wide-ranging compendium of nutshell clarity. It strikes just the right balance between contextual analysis, and breezy illustrative anecdote."
Dr Phil Oliver, Department of Philosophy, Middle Tennessee State University, USA
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50 Philosophy Classics: Revised Edition

50 Philosophy Classics: Revised Edition

by Tom Butler-Bowdon
50 Philosophy Classics: Revised Edition

50 Philosophy Classics: Revised Edition

by Tom Butler-Bowdon

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For over 2000 years, philosophy has been our best guide to the experience of being human, and the true nature of reality.

From Aristotle, Plato, Epicurus, Confucius, Cicero and Heraclitus in ancient times to 17th century rationalists Descartes, Leibniz and Spinoza, from 20th-century greats Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Baudrillard and Simone de Beauvoir to contemporary thinkers Michael Sandel, Peter Singer and Slavoj Zizek,50 Philosophy Classics explores key writings that have shaped the discipline and had an impact on the real world.

This is the thinking person's guide to a uniquely powerful tool for opening our minds and helping us view the world. It synthesises the 50 greatest books ever written, distilling hundreds of ideas from across the centuries with insightful commentary, key quotes and biographical information on the authors.

The revised edition will:
· include 7 new contemporary or timely classics such as Judith Butler's Gender Trouble, Michael Sandel's The Tyranny of Merit, Isaiah Berlin's The Hedgehog and the Fox and Mary Midgely's Myths We Live By.
· include a reader code to access a free pack of downloadable bonus material
· have a revised introduction to reflect on the current relevance of philosophy today with topical themes to have emerged in the 9 years since the last edition was written.
· have some of the less relevant titles removed

"50 Philosophy Classics is an impressively wide-ranging compendium of nutshell clarity. It strikes just the right balance between contextual analysis, and breezy illustrative anecdote."
Dr Phil Oliver, Department of Philosophy, Middle Tennessee State University, USA

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781399800976
Publisher: Mobius
Publication date: 08/02/2022
Pages: 336
Product dimensions: 5.37(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Tom Butler-Bowdon is recognized as an expert on personal development literature. His 50 Classics series has been hailed as the definitive guide to the literature of possibility, and has won numerous awards including the Benjamin Franklin Self-Help Award and Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year Award. A graduate of the London School of Economics and the University of Sydney, he lives and works in both the Oxford, UK and Australia. www.butler-bowdon.com

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Introduction 1

1 Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica (1274) 16

2 Hannah Arendt The Human Condition (1958) 22

3 Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics (4th century BC) 28

4 A.J. Ayer Language, Truth and Logic (1936) 34

5 Jean Baudrillard Simulacra and Simulation (1981) 38

6 Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex (1949) 44

7 Jeremy Bentham Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789) 50

8 Isaiah Berlin The Hedgehog and the Fox (1953) 56

9 David Bohm Wholeness and the Implicate Order (1980) 62

10 Judith Butler Gender Trouble (1990) 68

11 Noam Chomsky Understanding Power (2002) 76

12 Cicero On Duties (44 BC) 82

13 Confucius Analects (5th century BC) 88

14 René Descartes Meditations on First Philosophy (1641) 94

15 Ralph Waldo Emerson Fate (1860) 100

16 Epicurus Letters (3rd century BC) 106

17 Michel Foucault The Order of Things (1966) 112

18 Harry Frankfurt On Bullshit (2005) 118

19 G.W.F. Hegel Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) 122

20 Martin Heidegger Being and Time (1927) 130

21 David Hume An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748) 136

22 William James Pragmatism (1907) 142

23 Immanuel Kant Critique of Pure Reason (1781) 148

24 Søren Kierkegaard Fear and Trembling (1843) 154

25 Saul Kripke Naming and Necessity (1972) 158

26 Thomas Kuhn Vie Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) 164

27 Gottfried Leibniz Theodicy (1710) 170

28 John Locke Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689) 176

29 Niccolò Machiavelli The Prince (1513) 182

30 Marshall McLuhan The Medium Is the Massage (1967) 188

31 Mary Midgley The Myths We Live By (2003) 194

32 John Stuart Mill On Liberty (1859) 200

33 Michel de Montaigne Essays (1580) 206

34 Iris Murdoch The Sovereignty of Good (1970) 212

35 Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil (1886) 218

36 Blaise Pascal Pensées (1660) 224

37 Plato The Republic (4th century BC) 230

38 Plotinus The Enneads (3rd century) 236

39 Karl Popper The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934) 242

40 John Rawls A Theory of Justice (1971) 246

41 Jean-Jacques Rousseau The Social Contract (1762) 252

42 Bertrand Russell The Conquest of Happiness (1930) 258

43 Michael Sandel The Tyranny of Merit (2020) 264

44 Jean-Paul Sartre Being and Nothingness (1943) 272

45 Arthur Schopenhauer The World as Will and Representation (1818) 280

46 Peter Singer The Life You Can Save (2009) 286

47 Peter Sloteraijk You Must Change Your Life (2013) 292

48 Baruch Spinoza Ethics (1677) 298

49 Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Black Swan (2007) 306

50 Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosophical Investigations (1953) 312

50 More Philosophy Classics 319

Glossary 325

Credits 327

Acknowledgments 331

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