Wise Words
1st Edition
Published on 21. April 2016
416 pages
978-1-78497-130-4 (ISBN)
Description
A philosophical miscellany, as diverting as it is instructive, centred on an eclectic sequence of themes, ranging from advice to ageing, from backbiting to bigotry, from freedom to friendship, and from work to walking.
Stephen Trombley mines the canon of two and half millennia of Western thought for observations that reflect the seriousness, the joy and the strangeness of human existence, counterpointing these words of wisdom with episodes - sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant, sometimes plain odd - from the lives of the great philosophers.
WISE WORDS includes, on each of its themes, the thoughts of philosophers from the distant past to the present. The result is a multi-dimensional treatment of each theme that crosses temporal, national and ideological boundaries.
Stephen Trombley mines the canon of two and half millennia of Western thought for observations that reflect the seriousness, the joy and the strangeness of human existence, counterpointing these words of wisdom with episodes - sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant, sometimes plain odd - from the lives of the great philosophers.
WISE WORDS includes, on each of its themes, the thoughts of philosophers from the distant past to the present. The result is a multi-dimensional treatment of each theme that crosses temporal, national and ideological boundaries.
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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50 b&w illus
ISBN-13
978-1-78497-130-4 (9781784971304)
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Stephen Trombley's most recent books are Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World (2012) and A Short History of Western Thought (2011). For 15 years he co-edited The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought with Alan Bullock.
Content
- Intro
- Welcome Page
- About Wise Words
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Advice
- Chapter 2: Ageing
- Chapter 3: Animals
- Chapter 4: Backbiting
- Chapter 5: Belief
- Chapter 6: Chance
- Chapter 7: Consciousness
- Chapter 8: Day Jobs
- Chapter 9: Dreams
- Chapter 10: Drugs
- Chapter 11: Duty
- Chapter 12: Extraterrestrials
- Chapter 13: Food
- Chapter 14: Freedom
- Chapter 15: Friendship
- Chapter 16: Fun
- Chapter 17: God
- Chapter 18: Governing
- Chapter 19: Grief
- Chapter 20: Haircuts
- Chapter 21: Happiness
- Chapter 22: Hope
- Chapter 23: Illness
- Chapter 24: Insanity
- Chapter 25: Intuition
- Chapter 26: Justice
- Chapter 27: Laughing
- Chapter 28: Martyrdom
- Chapter 29: Melancholy
- Chapter 30: Nicknames
- Chapter 31: Obfuscation
- Chapter 32: Racism
- Chapter 33: Sex
- Chapter 34: Sport
- Chapter 35: Truth
- Chapter 36: Vanity
- Chapter 37: Walking
- Chapter 38: War
- Chapter 39: Writing
- Notes
- Online Sources of Primary Texts
- Online Philosophy Encyclopedias
- Bibliography of Secondary Works Cited
- Acknowledgements
- Glossary of Ideas
- Index of Philosophers Cited
- About Stephen Trombley
- An Invitation from the Publisher
- Copyright
