Why is there something rather than nothing? : 23 questions from great philosophers / Leszek Kołakowski ; translated by Agnieszka Kołakowska.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kołakowski, Leszek

Contributor:

Kołakowska, Agnieszka.

Standardized Title:

O co nas pytają wielcy filozofowie. English

Language:

English

Polish

Subjects (All):

Philosophy--Miscellanea.

Philosophy.

Genre:

Trivia and miscellanea.

Physical Description:

x, 222 pages ; 16 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Basic Books, 2007.

Summary:

Presents a collection of essays from various philosophers, including Socrates, Plato, St. Thomas Aquinas, René Descartes, and John Locke.

Contents:

Truth and the good: why do we do evil? / Socrates

Being and non-being: what is real? / Parmenides of Elea

Change, conflict and harmony: how does the cosmos work? / Heraclitus of Ephesus

The good and the just: what is the source of truth? / Plato

Life in accordance with nature: can it make us happy? / Epictetus of Hierapolis

Knowledge and belief: can we know anything? / Sextus Empiricus

God and man: what is evil? / St Augustine

God's necessity: could God not exist? / St Anselm

Knowledge, faith and the soul: is the world good? / St Thomas Aquinas

What there is: do ideas exist? / William of Ockham

God, the world and our minds: how can we achieve certainty? / René Descartes

The nature of God: do we have free will? / Benedict Spinoza

God and the world: why is there something rather than nothing? / Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Faith: why should we believe? / Blaise Pascal

Reason, freedom and equality: what did God endow us with? / John Locke

Perception and causality: what can we know? / David Hume

Reason, necessity and morality: how is knowledge possible? / Immanuel Kant

History and the absolute: progress without good and evil? / Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

World, will and sex: should we commit suicide? / Arthur Schopenhauer

God and faith: do we need the church? / Sören Aabye Kierkegaard

The will to power: is there good and evil? / Friedrich Nietzsche

Consciousness and evolution: what is the human spirit? / Henri Bergson

The foundations of certainity: what can we know and how can we know it? / Edmund Husserl.

Notes:

"First published in three volumes in Poland as O ca nas pytaja wielcy filozofowie"--T.p. verso.

ISBN:

9780465004997

0465004997

OCLC:

154711798