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Contents 6
10 INTRODUCTION
22 Everything is made of water
24 The Dao that can be told is not the eternal Dao
26 Number is the ruler of forms and ideas
30 Happy is he who has overcome his ego
34 Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles
40 Everything is flux
41 All is one Parmenides
42 Man is the measure of all things Protagoras
44 When one throws to me a peach, I return to him a plum Mozi
45 Nothing exists except atoms and empty space
46 The life which is unexamined is not worth living
50 Earthly knowledge is but shadow Plato
56 Truth resides in the world around us Aristotle
64 Death is nothing to us
66 He has the most who is most content with the least
67 The goal of life is living in agreement with nature
72 God is not the parent of evils
74 God foresees our free thoughts and actions
76 The soul is distinct from the body Avicenna
80 Just by thinking about God we can know he exists
82 Philosophy and religion are not incompatible
84 God has no attributes
86 Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form
88 The universe has not always existed
96 God is the not-other
97 To know nothing is the happiest life
102 The end justifies the means
108 Fame and tranquillity can never be bedfellows
110 Knowledge is power
112 Man is a machine
116 I think therefore I am
124 Imagination decides everything Blaise Pascal
126 God is the cause of all things, which are in him
130 No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience John Locke
134 There are two kinds of truths: truths of reasoning and truths of fact
138 To be is to be perceived
146 Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd Voltaire
148 Custom is the great guide of human life David Hume
154 Man was born free yet everywhere he is in chains
160 Man is an animal that makes bargains
164 There are two worlds: our bodies and the external world
172 Society is indeed a contract
174 The greatest happiness for the greatest number
175 Mind has no gender
176 What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is
177 About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy
178 Reality is a historical process Georg Hegel
186 Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world
189 Theology is anthropology
190 Over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign
194 Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom
196 The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles
204 Must the citizen ever resign his conscience to the legislator?
205 Consider what effects things have
206 Act as if what you do makes a difference
214 Man is something to be surpassed
222 Men with self-confidence come and see and conquer
223 Every message is made of signs
224 Experience by itself is not science Edmund Husserl
226 Intuition goes in the very direction of life
228 We only think when we are confronted with problems
232 Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it
233 It is only suffering that makes us persons
234 Believe in life William du Bois
236 The road to happiness lies in an organized diminution of work Bertrand Russell
240 Love is a bridge from poorer to richer knowledge
241 Only as an individual can man become a philosopher
242 Life is a series of collisions with the future
244 To philosophize, first one must confess
246 The limits of my language are the limits of my world
252 We are ourselves the entities to be analyzed
256 The individual’s only true moral choice is through self-sacrifice for the community
257 Logic is the last scientific ingredient of philosophy
258 The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope
259 That which is cannot be true Herbert Marcuse
260 History does not belong to us but we belong to it
262 In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable Karl Popper
266 Intelligence is a moral category Theodor Adorno
268 Existence precedes essence
272 The banality of evil
273 Reason lives in language
274 In order to see the world we must break with our familiar acceptance of it
276 Man is defined as a human being and woman as a female
278 Language is a social art
280 The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains Isaiah Berlin
282 Think like a mountain
284 Life will be lived all the better if it has no meaning
290 Language is a skin
292 How would we manage without a culture?
293 Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory Thomas Kuhn
294 The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance
296 Art is a form of life
297 Anything goes
298 Knowledge is produced to be sold
300 For the black man, there is only one destiny and it is white Frantz Fanon
302 Man is an invention of recent date
304 If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion Noam Chomsky
306 Society is dependent upon a criticism of its own traditions Jürgen Habermas
308 There is nothing outside of the text
314 There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves Richard Rorty
320 Every desire has a relation to madness Luce Irigaray
321 Every empire tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires
322 Thought has always worked by opposition
323 Who plays God in present-day feminism?
324 Philosophy is not only a written enterprise
325 In suffering, the animals are our equals
326 All the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure
330 DIRECTORY
340 GLOSSARY
344 INDEX
351 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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