A Little History of Philosophy
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Jean-Paul Sartre -Simone de Beauvoir and
Albert Camus
"If you could travel back in time to 1945 and to a café in Paris
called Les Deux Magots (‘The Two Wise Men’), you would find
yourself sitting near a small man with goggly eyes. He is
smoking a pipe and writing in a notebook. This man is Jean-
Paul Sartre (1905–80), the most famous existentialist philoso-
pher. He was also a novelist, playwright and biographer. He
lived most of his life in hotels and did most of his writing in
cafés. He didn’t look like a cult figure, but within a few years
that’s what he would become."
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Boo!/Hooray!
/ Alfred Jules Ayer
"Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you had a way of knowing when
someone was talking nonsense? You’d never need to be fooled
again. You could divide everything that you heard or read into
statements which made sense and statements which were just
nonsense and not worth your time. A.J. Ayer (1910–89) believed
he’d discovered one. He called it the Verification Principle."
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Is the Present King of France Bald?
/ Bertrand Russell
"Bertrand Russell’s main interests as a teenager were sex, religion
and mathematics – all at a theoretical level. In his very long life
(he died in 1970, aged 97) he ended up being controversial
about the first, attacking the second, and making important
contributions to the third."
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Thoughts in Disguise
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Sigmund Freud
"Can you really know yourself? The Ancient philosophers
believed that you could. But what if they were wrong? What if
there are parts of your mind that you can never reach directly,
like rooms that are permanently locked so that you can never
enter them?"
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The Death of God
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Friedrich Nietzsche
‘God is dead’.
"These are the most famous words that the German
philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) wrote. But how
could God die? God is supposed to be immortal. Immortal
beings don’t die. They live for ever. In a way, though, that’s the
point. That’s why God’s death sounds so odd: it’s meant to.
Nietzsche was deliberately playing on the idea that God couldn’t
die. He wasn’t literally saying that God had been alive at one
time and now wasn’t; rather that belief in God had stopped
being reasonable. In his book Joyful Wisdom (1882) Nietzsche
put the line ‘God is dead’ in the mouth of a character who holds
a lantern and looks everywhere for God, but can’t find him. The
villagers think he is crazy."
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So What?
C.S. Peirce and William James
"A squirrel is clinging tightly to the trunk of a large tree. On the
other side of the tree, close up against the trunk is a hunter.
Every time the hunter moves to his left, the squirrel moves
quickly to its left too, scurrying further round the trunk,
hanging on with its claws. The hunter keeps trying to find the
squirrel, but it manages to keep just out of his sight. This goes
on for hours, and the hunter never gets a glimpse of the squirrel.
Would it be true to say that the hunter is circling the squirrel?
Think about it. Does the hunter actually circle his prey?"
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