Dihadapkan padahukuman mati karena tuduhan "telah meracuni pikiran orang-orangmuda", Socrates dengan tenang dan tetap bermartabat terus bertanya jawabdengan sahabat-sahabatnya, memburu dan berbagi pengetahuan. Maka terangkatlahbermacam persoalan hakiki dan ultima dalam kehidupan: jiwa, raga, kebenaran,kebajikan, keindahan, dan terutama kematian. Dialog ini mengungkap pandangan radikal Socrates …
One day when Sophie comes home from school, she finds two questions in her mail: Who are you? and Where does the world come from? Before she knows it, she is pondering all the great questions of Western Philosophy (from the Greeks to Kant, to Marx and Freud) with a mysterious mentor. But Sophie is also receiving a second batch of equally unusual letters. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep…
Wabi Sabi is the Japanese Zen philosophy that all things are imperfect, unfinished and impermanent. It is a fresh way of seeing and moving through the world when our lives, literally and figuratively, feel cluttered. This book shows us how to apply this concept in the context of daily life and offers ideas on how to see it, embrace it and incorporate it into everyday thoughts, objects and situa…
In recent decades, many philosophers and cognitive scientists have declared the problem of consciousness unsolvable, but Antonio Damasio is convinced that recent findings across multiple scientific disciplines have given us a way to understand consciousness and its significance for human life.
Philosophy is a way of thinking about just about anything. It asks big questions, such as "how can I be good?" or "what makes something beautiful?" Using lively examples, humorous illustrations and simple thought experiments, this book opens up the world of philosophy to children and adults with enquiring minds.