{"product_id":"how-to-think-like-a-philosopher-scholars-dreamers-and-sages-who-can-teach-us-how-to-live-paperback","title":"How to Think Like a Philosopher: Scholars, Dreamers and Sages Who Can Teach Us How to Live - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter Cave\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn entertaining guide to history's most fascinating philosophers - from Sappho to Kant, and Aristotle to Simone de Beauvoir - which seeks to help us answer life's big questions.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn showing how the great philosophers of human history lived and thought - and what they thought about - Peter Cave provides an accessible and enjoyable introduction to thinking philosophically and how it can change our everyday lives. He addresses questions such as: Is there anything 'out there' that gives meaning to our lives? Does reality tell us how we ought to live? What indeed is reality and what is appearance - and how can we tell the difference? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book paints vivid portraits of an assortment of inspiring thinkers: from Lao Tzu to Avicenna to Iris Murdoch; from Hannah Arendt to Socrates and Plato to Karl Marx; from Kierkegaard and Nietzsche to Sartre to Samuel Beckett - and let us not forget Lewis Carroll for some thought-provoking fantasies and Ludwig Wittgenstein for the anguishes of a genius. As well as displaying optimists and pessimists, believers and non-believers, the book displays relevance to current affairs, from free speech to abortion to the treatment of animals to our leaders' moral character. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCave brings to life these often prescient, always compelling philosophical thinkers, showing how their ways of approaching the world grew out of their own lives and times and how we may make valuable use of their insights today. Now, more than ever, we need to understand how to live, and how to understand the world around us.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Cave\u003c\/b\u003e is a popular philosophy writer and speaker. He read philosophy at University College London and King's College Cambridge. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePeter is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Honorary Member of Population Matters, former member of the Council of the Royal Institute of Philosophy and Chair of Humanist Philosophers - and is a Patron of Humanists UK. Peter has scripted and presented BBC radio philosophy programmes and often takes part in public debates on religion, ethics and socio-political matters. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHis philosophy books include \u003ci\u003eThis Sentence Is False: An Introduction to Philosophical Paradoxes \u003c\/i\u003e(2009), and three \u003ci\u003eBeginner's Guides: \u003c\/i\u003eto Humanism, Philosophy and Ethics. More recent works are \u003ci\u003eThe Big Think Book: Discover Philosophy Through 99 Perplexing Problems\u003c\/i\u003e (2015) and \u003ci\u003eThe Myths We Live By: A Contrarian's Guide to Democracy, Free Speech and Other Liberal Fictions \u003c\/i\u003e(2019).\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.7 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 18, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51763609043232,"sku":"9781399405959","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/e46bd9ff653e89d63b02a39e09f4abe2.webp?v=1780236791","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/how-to-think-like-a-philosopher-scholars-dreamers-and-sages-who-can-teach-us-how-to-live-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}