Big Ideas for Curious Minds

Informationen zum Autor The School of Life is a global organisation helping people to lead more fulfilled lives. We do this via our articles , books , app , films , therapeutic services and corporate offering . The School of Life Press brings together the thinking and ideas of the School of Life creative team under the direction of series editor, Alain de Botton. Our range of books and products explore essential topics in psychological and emotional life, including relationships, parenting, friendship, careers and fulfilment. Klappentext A collection of important concepts from 25 major thinkers are contextualised in relation to everyday life in a way that is accessible to children, with chapters including 'Maybe You're Just Tired', 'Learn To Say What's On Your Mind' and 'Why You Might Feel Lonely'. Zusammenfassung This is a book designed to harness children's spontaneous philosophical instinct and to develop it through introductions to some of the most vibrant and essential philosophical ideas of history. It takes us to meet leading figures of philosophy from around the world and from all eras - and shows us how their ideas continue to matter. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: What Is Philosophy? Know Yourself with Socrates Learn to Say What's on Your Mind with Ludwig Wittgenstein It's Hard to Know What We Really Want with Simone de Beauvoir When Someone Is Angry Maybe It's Not You Who Is Responsible with Ibn Sina People Are Unhappy Not Mean with Zera Yacob Don't Expect Too Much with Seneca Maybe You Are Just Tired with Matsuo Basho What Is Normal Isn't Normal with Albert Camus No One Knows...with René Descartes Politeness Matters with Confucius Why We Procrastinate with Hypatia of Alexandria Why It's Hard to Know What You Want to Do with Your Life with Jean-Jacques Rousseau Good Things Are (Unexpectedly) Hard with Friedrich Nietzsche Weakness of Strength Theory with Ralph Waldo Emerson Kintsugi with Buddha The Need to Teach Rather than Nag with Immanuel Kant The Mind-Body Problem with Jean-Paul Sartre Why You Feel Lonely with Michel de Montaigne The Meaning of Life with Aristotle Why We Hate Cheap Things with Mary Wollstonecraft The News Doesn't Always Tell the Whole Story with Jacques Derrida Art Is Advertising for What We Really Need with Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Why Do Some People Get Paid More than Others? with Adam Smith What's Fair? with John Rawls Shyness: How to Overcome It with Maimonides Why Grown-up Life Is Hard with... Philosophy List of Thinkers ...

Autorentext

The School of Life is a global organisation helping people to lead more fulfilled lives. We do this via our articles, books, app, films, therapeutic services and corporate offering.

The School of Life Press brings together the thinking and ideas of the School of Life creative team under the direction of series editor, Alain de Botton. Our range of books and products explore essential topics in psychological and emotional life, including relationships, parenting, friendship, careers and fulfilment.

Klappentext

A collection of important concepts from 25 major thinkers are contextualised in relation to everyday life in a way that is accessible to children, with chapters including 'Maybe You're Just Tired', 'Learn To Say What's On Your Mind' and 'Why You Might Feel Lonely'.

Zusammenfassung
This is a book designed to harness children's spontaneous philosophical instinct and to develop it through introductions to some of the most vibrant and essential philosophical ideas of history. It takes us to meet leading figures of philosophy from around the world and from all eras - and shows us how their ideas continue to matter.

Inhalt

Introduction: What Is Philosophy?

Know Yourself with Socrates

Learn to Say What's on Your Mind with Ludwig Wittgenstein

It's Hard to Know What We Really Want with Simone de Beauvoir

When Someone Is Angry Maybe It's Not You Who Is Responsible with Ibn Sina

People Are Unhappy Not Mean with Zera Yacob

Don't Expect Too Much with Seneca

Maybe You Are Just Tired with Matsuo Basho

What Is Normal Isn't Normal with Albert Camus

No One Knows...with René Descartes

Politeness Matters with Confucius

Why We Procrastinate with Hypatia of Alexandria

Why It's Hard to Know What You Want to Do with Your Life with Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Good Things Are (Unexpectedly) Hard with Friedrich Nietzsche

Weakness of Strength Theory with Ralph Waldo Emerson

Kintsugi with Buddha

The Need to Teach Rather than Nag with Immanuel Kant

The Mind-Body Problem with Jean-Paul Sartre

Why You Feel Lonely with Michel de Montaigne

The Meaning of Life with Aristotle

Why We Hate Cheap Things with Mary Wollstonecraft

The News Doesn't Always Tell the Whole Story with Jacques Derrida

Art Is Advertising for What We Really Need with Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Why Do Some People Get Paid More than Others? with Adam Smith

What's Fair? with John Rawls

Shyness: How to Overcome It with Maimonides

Why Grown-up Life Is Hard with... Philosophy

List of Thinkers