One Hundred Philosophers: The Life and Work of the World's Greatest Thinkers

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For some of the world’s great thinkers, including Aristotle, Aquinas, and Hegel, philosophy is a vast system of fixed, capital-T Truth for humankind to discover, explore and comprehend. For others, even among those with philosophies as diverse as William James and Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosophy is simply a tool, or a process for ascertaining individual factual truths specific to a given time and place. It is often said that if you ask any ten philosophers to define their subject, you’re likely to get ten different answers. Here, presented for non-specialist readers, is an easy-to-understand survey of ideas put forth by 100 important philosophers, from the pre-Socratics of ancient Greece to the analytic philosophers of the present day. Each thinker is summarized in a single illustrated page, or in many instances, in a two-page spread. Each entry includes the philosopher’s birth and death dates, titles of major works, major influences, a capsule biographical sketch, and a brief summary of his or her most important ideas. In addition to philosophers in our own Western tradition, readers will find Chinese sages, including Confucius and Lao-tzu, the Indian Buddhist philosopher Ngrjuna, and thinkers representing other cultures. Just a few of the 100 important thinkers represented in this book are:

Plato

Aristotle

Augustine of Hippo

Roger Bacon

Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Hobbes

John Locke

Rene Descartes

Baruch Spinoza

Immanuel Kant

G.W.F. Hegel

Friedrich Nietzsche

William James

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Martin Heidegger

Jean-Paul Sartre

Alfred Jules Ayer

Willard V.O. Quine

Thomas Kuhn

Donald Davidson

and many othersThe text is enhanced with more than 250 illustrations and a glossary of philosophical terms.

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Ok as far as it goes,,, - Ray R - Sacramento, CA USA
This book was far too brief for me. I was disapponited because I could not capture the essence of the ideas expounded by each philosopher. The pages are divided into three columns. One column on each page is for quotes or antedotes. The top fifth of the page is used for birth and death, main interest, influences etc, there are pictures of the philospher, and occasionally other art works. This doesn't leave much room for discussion. I'm still looking for something readable and useful. Strangely, I did not find Voltaire in this book. Overall, it did not do it for me

The sudden descent of a teenager in psychosis

"On July 5, 1996, my daughter was struck mad. ... He was fifteen years he had learned to talk to me, she had heard her first stories from me ... any day now we are foreigners." This was the harsh reality of Michael Greenberg, author of Hurry Down Sunshine.

This is an inspiring personal story and his father's seemingly deep and abiding love for the daughter of fifteen, Sally, and his sudden descent into psychosis. It 's a story of everyday Michael GreenbergThe devotion to Sally as put together by their psychotic experience. It 's the story of a family, experiences, struggles and frustrations of dealing with mental illness, is a story full of emotion first.

Sally was admitted to a psychiatric hospital, evaluated and diagnosed as bipolar He first started treatment with psychotropic drugs. Every day, Sally's father made the trip to the hospital to spend the best part of the day with his daughter. He says it is "No-Man's Land. "

Michael Greenberg is raised as a boy of five children, one of whom suffered from paranoia and guardians need some help. His brother Michael took over as caretaker adult if his parents could no longer cope. When Sally was admitted to the psychiatric clinic, the mother visited her to explain how she was angry, pregnant and give birth a second time, because their situation at the moment. It 'was born the second son, wasneed support as an adult guardian. Michael's mother was very emphatic in relaying to Michael that mental illness was different from Sally's brother Michael and not hereditary.

When Sally was finally exit from the psychiatric hospital had also continue to be published to take medication and follow a plan of action. Some days a week, the father took her to conduct a clinic with her therapist to do.

At one point, in an attempt to better understand the effects of Sally'sDrugs to "see the world," as Sally saw the world and what they did to his works the body and especially his brain, Mr. Greenberg swallowed a dose of your medication. Almost immediately, he began "to dizziness and away ..."

While at home, Sally's expert has experienced the ups and downs "in and out of psychosis." But eventually the day came back as "a miracle ... the miracle of normal, ordinary existence" occurred only three years later.

Michael Greenberg writesa realistic experience of the history of his family struggle with mental illness. In his experience writing helps us all to our understanding of psychosis and life goes on more battles, frustrations and feelings of individuals and families dealing with mental illness.

Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg, a freelance writer
Vantage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, 2009, 233 pages

Fear Strikes Out: The Jim Piersall Story

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"The story of a man who became mentally `sick,' and how, through competent medical care, the help of a sympathetic and most understanding wife, the patience and encouragement of manager, teammates and fans, and above all his own splendid courage, he made a complete recovery and resumed his baseball career. . . . How he overcame his fears is a dramatic, heart-warming story. It is most refreshing to read how the Boston Red Sox, from manager down, backed up Jim in his fight for rehabilitation, and helped him regain the confidence that brought him back."-Library Journal (Library Journal )





Once again, the Bison Books imprint of the University of Nebraska Press has reached into baseball's past and returned with a Hall of Fame read. Fear Strikes Out is one of the game's most dramatic autobiographies. It is also one of the most important. When first published in 1955, it ventured into territory traditionally considered out of play for a sports story. "I must have been quite a card when I first broke into baseball's big league as a Boston Red Sox rookie in 1952," Piersall opens rather cheerily. He was a baseball clown, and the fans loved his offbeat shenanigans. One paragraph later, he tosses a huge, hanging curve. "Almost everybody...thought I was a riot. My wife knew I was sick, yet she was helpless to stop my mad rush toward a mental collapse."

In time, Piersall would become one of the silkiest centerfielders of the '50s--no mean feat given his contemporaries Mantle and Mays. A new afterword by Piersall catches us up to his later years (and stunts) in baseball and his post-career as a broadcaster. Fear is actually a prologue to that. It's a courageous story. Piersall's demons had him by the throat and nearly choked him. The breakdown he suffered early in his rookie years was so complete and so terrifying that his mind blanked out the next seven months before his own healing allowed for a painful reconstruction. Given that Fear was written in an era before biographic confessional and the public washing of an athlete's unclean flannels, Piersall's honesty and detail about mental illness, hospitalization, psychiatric therapy, and the struggle back to sanity are extraordinary. This is a truly marvelous book--better than the movie starring Anthony Perkins that was made from it--and, like the lead-off hitter Piersall was, it's earned its spot at the top of the order of any serious collection of baseball biographies. --Jeff Silverman

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