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The History of Philosophy
A cerebrally enjoyable survey, written with great clarity and touches of wit . . . The non-western section throws up some fascinating revelations
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Discriminations
World-renowned philosopher A. C. Grayling explores the messy politics of the ‘culture wars’ It seems like we can’t talk about anything nowadays… Whether it’s war or something utterly inconsequential, the internet is primed for furore. And the results can be horrifying – from online pile-ons and doxing to job loss and, in some cases, death. But how did we end up here? Nuanced and historically grounded, A. C. Grayling searches for middle ground in an otherwise incendiary debate. Looking at the history of cancellation, from Ancient Greek ‘ostracism’ through hemlock cups, witch trials and the House of Un-American Activities, Discriminations is a timely examination of the state of our public culture and the chilling effect it’s having on intellectual discourse.
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Time of the Sages
2,400 years ago there was a sudden and dramatic burst of new ideas across the world.Simultaneously in Athens, Socrates was prompting his contemporaries to question their assumptions; in India, the Buddha was grappling with the boundary between the self and the world; and in China, Confucius was formulating a philosophy based on collective harmony. For all their differences, each was pioneering a provocative new way of thinking about ethics and politics; a shift from asking what the gods demand to asking how human beings should live together.Where religion had relied on authority, these secular philosophies relied on persuasion. These were not prophets, but teachers. They wrote nothing down. It was only through extraordinary followers and compelling arguments that their ideas spread.Time of the Sages tells the story of this watershed in the history of the human mind, and shows why these ancient questions about how to live still matter today.
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Time of the Sages
2,400 years ago there was a sudden and dramatic burst of new ideas across the world.Simultaneously in Athens, Socrates was prompting his contemporaries to question their assumptions; in India, the Buddha was grappling with the boundary between the self and the world; and in China, Confucius was formulating a philosophy based on collective harmony. For all their differences, each was pioneering a provocative new way of thinking about ethics and politics; a shift from asking what the gods demand to asking how human beings should live together.Where religion had relied on authority, these secular philosophies relied on persuasion. These were not prophets, but teachers. They wrote nothing down. It was only through extraordinary followers and compelling arguments that their ideas spread.Time of the Sages tells the story of this watershed in the history of the human mind, and shows why these ancient questions about how to live still matter today.
€ 27,23 -
The Metaphysics of Experience
AC Grayling presents a work of analytic philosophy arguing that considerations of natural language ontology tell us much about how to understand truth, reference and concepts of reality.In this detailed examination of how philosophers currently think about the 'ultimate reality', Grayling builds on three decades of thinking about metaphysical and semantic questions. Covering a wide range of central issues in metaphysics, Grayling presents stimulating insights on a range of topics including the difference between the concepts of 'actual' and 'real' and why 'social reality' is as 'real' as physical reality. He shows us the significance of epistemological scepticism and offers a revised and developed view of the consequences of it for understanding the nature and role of assertion.Grayling's semantic anti-realism does not entail a rejection of metaphysical realism. Here the question is reframed as one about the way discourses project ontologies. By reversing the idea that perceptual discourse is the base case and that mimicry by other discourses of its grammar is a source of philosophical problems, Grayling argues that a series of familiar philosophical problems are resolved. His case for a deferral approach to ultimate reality, a metaphysical one, is compelling.Located as part of an historical development running though Parmenides, Plato, Spinoza, Berkeley, Hume, this is a work with broad implications in the metaphysics and philosophy of science. It is essential reading for any philosopher wanting to rethink the entanglement of ontology and epistemology in questions about reality.
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Who Owns the Moon?
As the world's superpowers and corporations jostle for control in space, A. C. Grayling asks: who really owns our planet? 'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects.' STEVEN PINKER Silicon for microchips; manganese for batteries; titanium for missiles. The moon contains a wealth of natural resources. So, as the Earth's supplies have begun to dwindle, it is no surprise that the world's superpowers and wealthiest corporations have turned their eyes to the stars. As this new Space Race begins, A.C. Grayling asks: who, if anyone, owns the moon? Or Mars? Or other bodies in near space? And what do those superpowers and corporations owe to Planet Earth and its inhabitants as a whole? From feudal common land, through the rules of the sea, to the vast, nationless expanse of Antarctica, Grayling explores the history of the places which no one, and therefore everyone, owns. Examining the many ways this so-called terra nullius has fallen victim to 'the tragedy of the commons' - the tendency for communal resources to be exploited by a few individuals for personal gain at the expense of everyone else - Who Owns the Moon? puts forward a compelling argument for a bold new global consensus, one which recognises and defends the rights of everyone who lives on this planet.
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Die Grenzen des Wissens
In den vergangenen hundert Jahren hat die Menschheit spektakuläre Fortschritte bei der Wissenserlangung über das Universum, die Vergangenheit und sich selbst gemacht. Die Geschichte der großen vorklassischen Zivilisationen und die Geschichte der menschlichen Evolution wurden erkundet und detailliert kartiert. Diese Fortschritte waren enorm, aufregend und folgenreich. Doch eine bemerkenswerte Tatsache begleitet diese Entwicklungen: Während man früher glaubte, dass jeder Erkenntnisfortschritt unsere Unwissenheit schmälert, haben uns die jüngsten Riesenschritte gezeigt, wie wenig wir wissen. Das Nachfragen erzeugt somit ein Paradoxon: Zunehmendes Wissen steigert unsere Unwissenheit. Was also wissen wir? Und wovon wissen wir heute, dass wir es nicht wissen? Und was haben wir über die Natur des Forschens selbst gelernt - die Barrieren und Schwierigkeiten, die überwunden oder berücksichtigt werden müssen? Was sind die Grenzen des Wissens und wie können wir sie überschreiten?Für Fans von Yuval Noah Harari, Hans RoslingStandardwerk zum Thema Wissen der MenschheitDieses fesselnde Buch, ein Standardwerk über die wissenschaftlichen Fortschritte der Menschheit, bietet neben einem außergewöhnlichen Lesevergnügen einen Überblick über drei der großen Bereiche des menschlichen Wissens - Grundlagenphysik, Menschheitsgeschichte und Hirnforschung. A.C. Grayling: 'Ein enthusiastischer Denker, der sich Humor, gesunden Menschenverstand und Klarheit zu eigen macht.' Independent'Grayling bringt eine Ordnung in entmutigende Themen. Um die Welt zu verstehen, müssen wir sowohl das, was bekannt ist, als auch das, was noch nicht bekannt ist, wertschätzen, und niemand kann dieses Verständnis effektiver vermitteln als Grayling.' Steven Pinker, Autor von 'Mehr Rationalität: Eine Anleitung zum besseren Gebrauch des Verstandes''Für neugierige Menschen, die sich für Geschichte und wissenschaftliche Entwicklungen interessieren, wird das Buch eine lesenswerte Begegnung mit ebendiesen sein. Samt Graylings liebevollen Hinführungen zu jenem Nadelöhr, durch das wir versuchen, die Gesamtheit der Welt zu begreifen.' Leipziger Internet Zeitung
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For the Good of the World
A lucid and inspiring consideration of the challenges we and our world now face, and a proposal for a way to avoid disaster.‘A must read’ Gordon Brown ‘A truly excellent book’ Sir David King The three biggest challenges facing the world today, in A. C. Grayling’s view, are climate change, technology and justice. In his timely new book, he asks: can human beings agree on a set of values that will allow us to confront the numerous threats facing the planet, or will we simply continue with our disagreements and antipathies as we collectively approach our possible extinction? As every day brings new stories about extreme weather events, spyware, lethal autonomous weapons systems, and the health imbalance between the northern and southern hemispheres, Grayling’s question – Is Global Agreement on Global Challenges Possible? – becomes ever more urgent. The solution he proposes is both pragmatic and inspiring.
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The History of Philosophy
The first authoritative and accessible single-volume history of philosophy to cover both Western and Eastern traditions, from one of the world's most eminent thinkersThe story of philosophy is an epic tale, spanning civilizations and continents. It explores some of the most creative minds in history. But not since the long-popular classic Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy, published in 1945, has there been a comprehensive and entertaining single-volume history of this great, intellectual, world-shaping journey.With characteristic clarity and elegance, A. C. Grayling takes the reader from the worldviews and moralities before the age of the Buddha, Confucius, and Socrates through Christianity's capture of the European mind, from the Renaissance and Enlightenment on to Mill, Nietzsche, Sartre and, finally, philosophy today. Bringing together these many threads that all too often run parallel, he surveys in tandem the great philosophical traditions of India, China and the Persian-Arabic world.Perfect for students and revelatory to enthusiasts of philosophy, Grayling's narrative dramatizes the interchange between and within eras and epochs, asking what we have learned, but also what progress is still to be made. Destined to be his magnum opus, and astonishing in its range and accessibility, this is a landmark work.
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The Good State
The foundations upon which our democracies stand are inherently flawed, vulnerable to corrosion from within. What is the remedy? A. C. Grayling makes the case for a clear, consistent, principled and written constitution, and sets out the reforms necessary - among them addressing the imbalance of power between government and Parliament, imposing fixed terms for MPs, introducing proportional representation and lowering the voting age to 16 (the age at which you can marry, gamble, join the army and must pay taxes if you work) - to ensure the intentions of such a constitution could not be subverted or ignored. As democracies around the world show signs of decay, the issue of what makes a good state, one that is democratic in the fullest sense of the word, could not be more important. To take just one example: by the simplest of measures, neither Britain nor the United States can claim to be truly democratic. The most basic tenet of democracy is that no voice be louder than any other. Yet in our 'first past the post' electoral systems a voter supporting a losing candidate is unrepresented, his or her voice unequal to one supporting a winning candidate, who frequently does not gain a majority of the votes cast. This is just one of a number of problems, all of them showing that democratic reform is a necessity in our contemporary world.
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La era del ingenio : el siglo XVII y el nacimiento de la mente moderna
La mentalidad de los tiempos modernos se establecio? en el sigloxviimientras, en medio de guerra e injusticia, tuvo lugar un peri?odo de revolucio?n intelectual. Pero ¿que? le sucedio? a la mente europea entre 1605 ?cua?ndo la audiencia que asis- tio? a la primera funcio?n de Macbeth pensaba que el regicidio era tal aberracio?n del orden natural que hari?a que fantasmas se alzara?n de las profundidades de la tierra? y 1649, cua?ndo una gran multitud, quiza?s algunos de los que habi?an visto Macbeth cuarenta an?os atra?s, podi?an quedarse a contemplar tranquilamente la ejecucio?n de un rey?En este agitado peri?odo, la ciencia se movio? desde la alquimia y la astrologi?a de John Dee hasta el minucioso trabajo y la astronomi?a de Galileo, desde el clasi- cismo de Aristo?teles hasta la investigacio?n basada en la evidencia de la Royal Society. A pesar de eso, los usos antiguos au?n persisti?an y afectaban la nueva mentalidad: Newton, el hombre que entendi?a la gravedad y las leyes del movi- miento estuvo fascinado hasta el final de su vida por la alquimia.El sigloxviifue un peri?odo de progreso y descubrimiento que fue testigo del cambio ma?s grande en la mentalidad humana.La era del ingenioes una exa- minacio?n detallada de los problemas, crisis, y desarrollos de la Ilustracio?n que fueron fundamentales en la creacio?n del mundo que conocemos hoy.a era del ingenioes una exa- minacio?n detallada de los problemas, crisis, y desarrollos de la Ilustracio?n que fueron fundamentales en la creacio?n del mundo que conocemos hoy.
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The Age of Genius
What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration of the natural order that ghosts could burst from the ground, and 1649, when a large crowd, perhaps including some who had seen Macbeth forty-four years earlier, could stand and watch the execution of a king? Or consider the difference between a magus casting a star chart and the day in 1639, when Jonathan Horrock and William Crabtree watched the transit of Venus across the face of the sun from their attic, successfully testing its course against Kepler's Tables of Planetary Motion, in a classic case of confirming a scientific theory by empirical testing.In this turbulent period, science moved from the alchemy and astrology of John Dee to the painstaking observation and astronomy of Galileo, from the classicism of Aristotle, still favoured by the Church, to the evidence-based, collegiate investigation of Francis Bacon. And if the old ways still lingered and affected the new mind set - Descartes's dualism an attempt to square the new philosophy with religious belief; Newton, the man who understood gravity and the laws of motion, still fascinated to the end of his life by alchemy - by the end of that tumultuous century 'the greatest ever change in the mental outlook of humanity' had irrevocably taken place.
€ 21,50