Book
Philosophy bites back
Edition
1st ed.
Publication Information
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Physical Description
xxiv, 274 p. ; 21 cm.
Summary
"Twenty-seven of today's leading philosophers each introduce and explore ideas from one of history's greatest minds."--Cover.
Contents
- Mary Margaret McGabe on Socrates and the Socratic method
- Angie Hobbs on Plato on erotic love
- Terence Irwin on Aristotle's ethics
- Anthony Kenny on Thomas Aquinas's ethics
- Quentin Skinner on Niccoló Macchiavelli's The Prince
- Sarah Bakewell on Michel de Montaigne
- A.C. Grayling on René Descartes' Cogito
- Susan James on Baruch de Spinoza on the passions
- John Dunn on John Locke on toleration
- John Campbell on George Berkeley's puzzle
- Peter Millican on David Hume's significance
- Nick Phillipson on Adam Smith on what human beings are like
- Melissa Lane on Jean-Jacques Rousseau on modern society
- Richard Bourke on Edmund Burke on politics
- A.W. Moore on Immanuel Kant's metaphysics
- Robert Stern on G.W.F. Hegel on dialectic
- Richard Reeves on John Stuart Mill's On Liberty
- Claire Carlisle on Søren Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling
- Aaron Ridley on Friedrich Nietzsche on art and truth
- Peter Singer on Henry Sidgwick's ethics
- Robert B. Talisse on The Pragmatists and the truth
- Barry C. Smith on Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Hugh Mellor on Frank Ramsey on truth
- Mary Warnock on Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialism
- Chandran Kukathas on Friedrich Hayek and liberalism
- Jonathan Wolff on John Rawls on justice
- Robert Rowland Smith on Jacques Derrida on forgiveness.