A Little History of Philosophy Nigel Warburton
Publisher: Yale University Press

Society and Philosophy are represented by Misha Glenny on all our Cyber Threats and Nigel Warburton presenting his charming “A Little History of Philosophy”. A Short History of Murphy and the Rules He Rode In On. What is for example the philosophical meaning of Augustine's statement in his Confessiones that “to praise you [God] is the desire of man, a little piece of your creation. Wittgenstein explicitly states that linguistic activities are as much a part of our natural, cultural and social history. I'm all for breaking down the arbitrary and artificial barriers between 'subjects'. Aristotle: Eudaimonia or you die moanier. What does the above discussion of language games imply for the meaning of language? Can there be a more futile project than setting up a system of analog rules as a totality? Descartes: You're not dreaming. I really don't know much about philosophy, so when I got my hands on a copy of Nigel Warburton's A Little History of Philosophy, I decided to dig in and learn a few things. I can remember having no idea what to specialise in at age 16 (and so. During Feng's 1948 visit to the University of Pennsylvania, he gave lectures that later became the basis of the English-language book, A Short History of Chinese Philosophy (1948). You stir man to take pleasure in praising you, because you have made us for yourself, and our .. The author, a secularist, does not bother to treat philosophical arguments for God's existence seriously. For example, he lauds Bertrand Russell's attack on the cosmological argument (p. I might even be willing to concede it should count as doing history of philosophy.