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Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction looks at different schools of philosophy and classic philosophical problems, via readings from Plato, Hume, Hobbes, Descartes, and early Buddhist writers. Could a philosopher today be asking the same questions about the self as David Hume or the early Buddhists? What were Descartes and Nietzsche trying to prove? Most people have a philosophy, in terms of a general picture of what they think the world is like and what values they live by. Are we all philosophers, and why are we more comfortable with some philosophical ideas than others? How should we live? What should we do, and how do we make these choices?

 

Keywords: Plato, Descartes, Hume, Hobbes, early Buddhists, Nietzsche, philosophical ideas

 

Contents

1. Philosophy: a very short introduction

2. What should I do?: Plato¿s Crito

3. How do we know?: Hume¿s Of Miracles

4. What am I?: An unknown Buddhist on the self: King Milinda¿s chariot

5. Some themes

6. Of `isms¿

7. Some more high spots: a personal selection

8. Freedom of the will

9. What¿s in it for whom?