Philosophers

Glyn Hughes' SQUASHED PHILOSOPHERS THE books which defined the way The West thinks now... In their own words... but condensed and abridged into something like readable

"Until Philosophers are kings... cities will never have rest from their troubles".		PLATO The Republic (c355BC)	Reading Time: 12% 61 mins
		The Symposium (c355BC)	17% 22 mins
		The Apology (c355BC)	21% 22 mins
"If it is in our power to act nobly, it is also in our power to do evil."		ARISTOTLE Nicomachean Ethics (c300BC)	12% 40 mins
		The Politics (c300BC)	4% 22 mins
"No pleasure is a bad thing in itself"		EPICURUS Sovran Maxims (c300BC)	100% 5 mins
"Virtue is the foundation of friendship"		CICERO On Friendship and Old Age (c50BC)	16% 16 mins
"...We live but for a moment"		Marcus AURELIUS Meditations (c180AD)	6% 21 mins
"Too late have I come to love you, O beauty so ancient and so fresh"		St AUGUSTINE Confessions (c390)	6% 40 mins
"The good are always strong"		Severinus BOETHIUS The Consolation of Philosophy (c520)	7% 10 mins
"Fortune favours the fool."		Desiderius ERASMUS In Praise of Folly (1515)	8% 11 mins
"All princes have more delights in warlike matters... than in the good feats of peace"		Thomas MORE Utopia (1515)	8% 12 mins
"Men ought either to be well treated or crushed"		Niccolò MACHIAVELLI The Prince (1520)	24% 31 mins
"Therefore, the earth is not flat"		Nicolaus COPERNICUS Revolutions of the Celestial Orbs (1543)	19% 17 mins
"if a man ... be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.		Francis BACON The Advancement of Learning (1605)	9% 30 mins
"I think, therefore I am"		René DESCARTES Meditations on First Philosophy (1641)	13% 26 mins
		Discourse on Method (1637)	16% 12 mins
"...the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short"		Thomas HOBBES Leviathan (1651)	5% 47 mins
"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed."		Blaise PASCAL Thoughts (1660)	9% 24 mins
"there can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope"		Baruch SPINOZA Ethics (1677)	11% 31 mins
"I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me."		Isaac NEWTON Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1677)	4% 20 mins
"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts"		John LOCKE Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)	4% 43 mins
"The soul is the mirror of the universe"		Gottfried LEIBNIZ Monadology (1698)	38% 8 mins
"Essence IS perception"		George BERKELEY Principles of Human Knowledge (1710)	15% 20 mins
"It is never possible to deduce judgements of value from matters of fact"		David HUME Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1751)	13% 26 mins
"Man was born free, and everywhere he is in irons"		Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU The Social Contract (1762)	20% 36 mins
"It is not from the benevolence of the.. baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest."		Adam SMITH The Wealth of Nations (1776)	3% 50 mins
"Reason is the pupil of itself alone. It is the oldest of the sciences"		Immanuel KANT Critiques of Pure & Practical Reason (1781)	3% 23 mins
		Metaphysics of Morals (1785)	16% 28 mins
"Mankind is governed by pain and pleasure"		Jeremy BENTHAM Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789)	3% 12 mins
"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil"		Thomas PAINE The Rights of Man (1792)	8% 29 mins
"I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves."		Mary WOLLSTONECRAFT Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792)	9% 31 mins
"Cruelty is a virtue, not a vice."		Le Marquis De SADE Philosophy in the Boudoir (1795)	11% 31 mins
"Society... cannot be regarded as composed of individuals.."		Auguste COMTE Positive Philosophy (1795)	11% 15 mins
"War is the continuation of politics by other means"		Carl Von Clausewitz On War (1830)	9% 27 mins
"God is the absolute truth."		GWF HEGEL The Philosophy of Religion (1832)	9% 22 mins
"The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas."		MARX and ENGELS The German Ideology (1836)	19% 22 mins
"We can surely never arrive at the nature of things from without."		Arthur SCHOPENHAUER The World as Will and Idea (1844)	6% 12 mins
"Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign."		John Stuart MILL On Liberty (1859)	10% 21 mins
		A System of Logic (1843)	3% 12 mins
"It is never too late to give up our prejudices.."		Henry D THOREAU Walden (1854)	9% 33 mins
"...endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved."		Charles DARWIN On The Origin of Species (1859)	6% 38 mins
"When you stare into an abyss for a long time, the abyss also stares into you".		Friedrich NIETZSCHE Beyond Good and Evil (1886)	14% 36 mins
"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience".		William JAMES Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)	8% 60 mins
"...we men... find reality generally quite unsatisfactory"		Sigmund FREUD Psychoanalysis (1910)	32% 27 mins
"Gott würfelt nicht (God does not play dice)"		Albert EINSTEIN Relativity (1916)	8% 20 mins
"The world is the totality of facts, not things."		Ludwig WITTGENSTEIN Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921)	6% 20 mins
"The world is not there to be possessed by the faint-hearted races"		Adolf HITLER My Struggle (1927)	6% 31 mins
"...logic and mathematics are true simply because we never allow them to be anything else."		A.J. AYER Language, Truth + Logic (1936)	13% 31 mins
"Once freedom has exploded in the soul of man, the gods no longer have any power over him"		Jean-Paul SARTRE Existentialism is a Humanism (1945)	23% 10 mins
"Can machines think?"		Alan TURING Computing Machinery & Intelligence (1950)	29% 14 mins
"Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification"		Sir Karl POPPER The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1957)	00% EDITING

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