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Camus In 60 Minutes
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Author : Walther Ziegler
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2016-07-08
Camus In 60 Minutes written by Walther Ziegler and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-08 with Philosophy categories.
Albert Camus was a legend in his own lifetime, as a successful author, a philosopher and a “ladies’ man”. His philosophical discoveries remain provocative even today. Because, like all great philosophers, Camus posed the question of the meaning of life. But his answer to this question was an answer of an entirely new kind. This question as to the meaning of life has been answered, of course, very differently down the centuries. For Plato it is ‘the Good’ that holds the world together; for Hegel the ‘World-Spirit’; for Marx the relations of production; for Sartre freedom; for Nietzsche ‘will to power’; and for Habermas the development of communicative reason. Really, each philosopher has his own answer to this question. But Camus is the exception here. He has none. Or rather, worse: he has an answer, but one of very sobering effect. His answer to the question ‘what is the meaning of life?’ is simply ‘It has no meaning. Life is absurd’. We plan ahead and make decisions, but in the last analysis our whole life depends on a series of chance events over which we have no control. Nor is there really a goal. Nevertheless, it is our task to live proudly and undauntedly on. Camus compares the life of Man with the myth of Sisyphus. The mythical Sisyphus strained tirelessly to push a boulder up a mountainside, even though it always rolled back down before he reached the top. But precisely in this apparently senseless and absurd activity lay, argued Camus, a chance for a fulfilled life. Camus explains to us how we can live with absurdity. We must, he says, imagine Sisyphus happy. The book Camus in 60 Minutes explains, using selected quotations and examples, this theory of “the absurd” as it is developed by Camus in his main philosophical works The Myth of Sisyphus and The Rebel. The chapter on “what use Camus’ discovery is for us today” describes the “absurd style of life” that Camus recommends. Camus’ colourful examples of “absurd life-projects”, and his descriptions of how one best confronts “the absurd” itself and leads a life without God or ideological orientation are, above all in our modern societies, of powerful relevance and topicality. The book forms part of the popular series Great Thinkers in 60 Minutes.
Great Thinkers In 60 Minutes Volume 2
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Author : Walther Ziegler
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2016-08-04
Great Thinkers In 60 Minutes Volume 2 written by Walther Ziegler and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-04 with Philosophy categories.
"Great Thinkers in 60 Minutes” is the second ‘omnibus’ volume drawn from the popular book-series of the same name. It comprises the five books, already published as separate volumes, "Marx in 60 Minutes", "Freud in 60 Minutes", "Sartre in 60 Minutes", "Camus in 60 Minutes", and "Heidegger in 60 Minutes". Each short study sums up the key idea at the heart of each respective thinker and asks the question: “Of what use is this key idea to us today?” But above all the philosophers get to speak for themselves. Their most important statements are prominently presented, as direct quotations, in speech balloons with appropriate graphics, with exact indication of the source of each quote in the author’s works. Between 40 and 80 representative passages are given from the work of each of the five philosophers. This light-hearted but nonetheless scholarly precise rendering of the ideas of each thinker makes it easy for the reader to acquaint him- or herself with the great questions of our lives. Because every philosopher who has achieved global fame has posed the “question of meaning”: what is it that holds, at the most essential level, the world together? There have emerged here a range of very different answers. In Marx, it is the relations of production – that is to say, the conditions under which we labour and produce the goods we need – which ultimately determine our sense of our lives, our thinking, and our whole culture. In Freud, it is the libido and thus the energy of our drives, which we can either live out, repress, or sublimate. In Sartre it is the absolutely free human will which compels Man to make himself what he is. In Heidegger, what absorbs us is the struggle for the authenticity of ‘Dasein’ and the ‘care’ for the Being of the world. Camus is the only philosopher in this series who gives no answer at all to the “question of meaning”. There is no “meaning”, says Camus; life is absurd and depends merely upon a sequence of random chance events. In other words, the meaning of the world and thus of our own lives remains, among philosophers, a topic of great controversy. One thing, though, is sure: each of these five thinkers struck, from his own perspective, one brilliant spark out of that complex crystal that is the truth.
Camus In 60 Minuten
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Author : Walther Ziegler
language : de
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2015-07-07
Camus In 60 Minuten written by Walther Ziegler and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-07 with Philosophy categories.
„Große Denker in 60 Minuten“ ist der erste Sammelband zur beliebten gleichnamigen Buchreihe. Er umfasst die fünf Einzelpublikationen „Platon in 60 Minuten“, „Rousseau in 60 Minuten“, „Smith in 60 Minuten“, „Kant in 60 Minuten“ und „Hegel in 60 Minuten“. Dabei wird der Kerngedanke des jeweiligen Denkers auf den Punkt gebracht und die Frage gestellt: „Was nützt uns dieser Gedanke heute?“ Vor allem aber kommen die Philosophen selbst zu Wort. So werden ihre wichtigsten Aussagen als Zitate in Sprechblasen grafisch hervorgehoben und ihre Herkunft aus den jeweiligen Werken angezeigt. Jeder der fünf Philosophen ist mit 40 bis 80 seiner besten Aussagen vertreten. Die spielerische, gleichwohl wissenschaftlich exakte Wiedergabe der einzelnen Denker ermöglicht dem Leser den Einstieg in die großen Fragen unseres Lebens. Denn jeder Philosoph, der zu Weltruhm gelangt ist, hat die Sinnfrage gestellt: Was ist es, was die Welt im Innersten zusammenhält? Herausgekommen sind dabei sehr unterschiedliche Antworten. Bei Platon ist es beispielsweise die Idee des Guten, der wir unsere Seele öffnen sollen, bei Rousseau unsere innere ursprüngliche Natur, der wir einzig und allein noch vertrauen können, bei Adam Smith das Eigeninteresse, das alle Individuen antreibt und sich am Ende durch eine unsichtbare Hand in Allgemeinwohl verwandelt. Bei Kant ist es die Anwendung des Verstandes, die uns befreit und zu außerordentlichen moralischen Leistungen befähigt. Bei Hegel schließlich wird alles durch die dialektische Entfaltung des Weltgeistes zusammengehalten, der sich durch die Taten der Individuen und Nationen von Epoche zu Epoche weitertreibt, bis er am Ende sein großes Ziel erreicht. Die Frage nach dem Sinn der Welt und somit dem Sinn unseres Lebens wird von den Philosophen also durchaus unterschiedlich beantwortet, doch eines steht fest: Jeder der fünf Denker hat aus seiner Perspektive einen Funken aus dem Kristall der Wahrheit herausgeschlagen.
Sartre In 60 Minutes
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Author : Walther Ziegler
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2016-07-08
Sartre In 60 Minutes written by Walther Ziegler and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-08 with Philosophy categories.
Sartre is surely one of the most important philosophers of the 20th Century. His “philosophy of existence” influenced not just academic debate but the whole of Western civilization, especially European youth. In France, from the end of WW2 on into the 1960s, a certain “youth culture” milieu composed of secondary school and university students and young artists and intellectuals proclaimed their “existential” attitude to life by wearing the black clothes and horn-rimmed glasses that Sartre was seen to wear in so many photos from the period. The motto of these “existentialists” ran: ‘do not let anyone else tell you how you are to live’. They advocated a frank and intensive style of life, both as regards friendships and love affairs and political commitments. Sartre was the great philosopher of freedom. No other philosopher has so strongly emphasized the freedom of the human will. And because Man is free he must make something out of his life and lives as he believes it right to live, if necessary contrary to existing social rules and traditions. Sartre, for example, opposed many of his country’s wars, fought for a more just society, launched many petitions, and carried on a so-called “open relationship” with his lifelong companion Simone de Beauvoir. In his principal work Being and Nothingness Sartre also became one of the first philosophers to explore the nature of “love”. How does love actually work? What does it mean to lead a free and self-determined life? How free are we? The book Sartre in 60 Minutes explains the most important of Sartre’s theses in a clear and comprehensible way, keeping close to Sartre’s own text and including over fifty selected passages from his work and focussing on the central theme of his ideas about freedom and the structure of inter-human relations. In the chapter on “what use Sartre’s discovery is to us today” it is then shown how important Sartre’s thoughts still are for our personal lives and for the society of the 21st Century. The book forms part of the popular series Great Thinkers in 60 Minutes.
Gro E Denker In 60 Minuten Band 2
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Author : Walther Ziegler
language : de
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2022-03-09
Gro E Denker In 60 Minuten Band 2 written by Walther Ziegler and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-09 with Philosophy categories.
"Große Denker in 60 Minuten - Band 2" ist der zweite Sammelband zur beliebten gleichnamigen Buchreihe. Er umfasst die fünf Einzelpublikationen "Marx in 60 Minuten", "Freud in 60 Minuten","Sartre in 60 Minuten", "Camus in 60 Minuten" und "Heidegger in 60 Minuten". Dabei wird der Kerngedanke des jeweiligen Denkers auf den Punkt gebracht und die Frage gestellt: "Was nützt uns dieser Gedanke heute?" Vor allem aber kommen die Philosophen selbst zu Wort. So werden ihre wichtigsten Aussagen als Zitate in Sprechblasen grafisch hervorgehoben und ihre Herkunft aus den jeweiligen Werken angezeigt. Jeder der fünf Philosophen ist mit 40 bis 80 solcher Zitate vertreten. Die spielerische, gleichwohl wissenschaftlich exakte Wiedergabe der einzelnen Denker ermöglicht dem Leser den Einstieg in die großen Fragen unseres Lebens. Denn jeder Philosoph, der zu Weltruhm gelangt ist, hat die Sinnfrage gestellt: Was ist es, was die Welt im Innersten zusammenhält? Herausgekommen sind dabei sehr unterschiedliche Antworten. Bei Marx sind es die Produktionsverhältnisse, also die Umstände, wie wir arbeiten und unsere Güter herstellen, die am Ende unser Lebensgefühl, unseren Geist und unsere Kultur bestimmen. Bei Freud ist es die Libido und somit unsere Triebenergie, die wir entweder ausleben, verdrängen oder sublimieren können. Bei Sartre ist es der absolut freie Wille, der die Menschen zwingt, sich erst zu dem zu machen, was sie sind und sein wollen. Bei Heidegger sind es die Befreiung aus der Seinsvergessenheit und die Suche nach der Eigentlichkeit des Daseins, die unserem Leben Orientierung geben können. Camus ist der einzige Philosoph in dieser Reihe, der auf die Sinnfrage keine Antwort hat. Es gibt keinen, so Camus, das Leben ist absurd und abhängig von einer Aneinanderreihung von Zufällen. Die Frage nach dem Sinn der Welt und somit dem Sinn unseres Lebens wird von den Philosophen also durchaus unterschiedlich beantwortet, doch eines steht fest: Jeder der fünf Denker hat aus seiner Perspektive einen Funken aus dem Kristall der Wahrheit herausgeschlagen.
Camus En 60 Minutes
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Author : Walther Ziegler
language : fr
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
Release Date : 2019-01-22
Camus En 60 Minutes written by Walther Ziegler and has been published by BoD - Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-22 with Philosophy categories.
De son vivant déjà, Camus était une légende en tant qu'écrivain, philosophe et séducteur. Sa découverte majeure reste à ce jour provocante. Comme tous les philosophes, il pose la question du sens de la vie. Toutefois, sa réponse sort complètement de l'ordinaire. Certes, la question du sens a de tout temps été abordée de différentes manières. Pour Platon, il s'agit du Bien, qui garantit l'unité du monde ; pour Hegel, il s'agit de l'Esprit du monde, pour Marx, il s'agit du travail, pour Sartre, c'est la liberté existentielle et pour Nietzsche, c'est la volonté de puissance. Chaque philosophe offre sa propre réponse à la question du sens. Camus, lui, n'en a pas. Pire encore, sa réponse est extrêmement décevante. À la question de savoir ce qu'est le sens de la vie, il répond tout simplement qu'il n'y en a pas. La vie est absurde. Nous prévoyons certes toujours en avance, mais notre vie ne dépend finalement que d'une série de hasards que nous ne pouvons pas influencer. Par ailleurs, il n'existe pas de vrai but. Notre tâche consiste à poursuivre notre existence de manière fière et intrépide. Camus compare notre vie au mythe de Sisyphe. Ce dernier tente inlassablement de pousser une pierre au sommet d'une montagne, alors qu'elle retombe à chaque fois. Or, c'est précisément dans cette action prétendument absurde et dénuée de sens que réside la possibilité d'une vie comblée. Camus nous révèle comment vivre avec l'absurde. Selon lui, nous devons considérer Sisyphe comme un homme heureux. Le livre « Camus en 60 minutes » nous introduit à la théorie de l'absurde telle qu'elle a été développée dans ses oeuvres principales, « Le mythe de Sisyphe et L'Homme révolté ». À l'aide de citations originales, l'accent sera mis sur la vie de l'homme absurde telle que préconisée par Camus. Les propositions de Camus sur la manière de mener une vie sans Dieu ni orientation idéologique restent plus que jamais d'actualité. Le livre est paru dans la collection à succès « Grands penseurs en 60 minutes ».
Epicurus In 60 Minutes
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Author : Walther Ziegler
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2022-08-24
Epicurus In 60 Minutes written by Walther Ziegler and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-24 with Philosophy categories.
The philosopher Epicurus (341-270 BC) has been controversial since antiquity. His provocative key idea is of compelling simplicity. Every human being possesses, by nature, an internal compass. In order to be happy he must do what causes him pleasure and joy and avoid what causes him unpleasure and harm. He writes: "Pleasure is the starting point and goal of living blessedly [...] (It is) our first innate good, and [...] our starting point for every choice and avoidance." Already newborns follow this "pleasure principle". But this discovery, which might at first seem so obvious, struck Epicurus's contemporaries as a monstrous provocation. The notion that the highest goal of life is enjoying pleasure stands in stark contrast to the then-established teachings of Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics. These latter saw reason and a life lived by reason as the highest goal of Man. Because Epicurus accepted women into his school and even had a love affair with one of them, his contemporaries called him a "glutton" and "sex fiend". The Greek poet Timon described him as "doggish", the Stoic Epictetus as a "wastrel". Christian authors later even called him the Antichrist. But these critiques are fundamentally false, because beyond a superficial striving for pleasure, Epicurus's deeper concern was a lifelong, painstaking "care of the self". His questions, then, remain burningly relevant. What are the basic human needs whose satisfaction yields a happy life? Which needs are really necessary to life and which not? How, concretely, should we deal with these needs: for example with the need for food, drink, sexual intercourse and friendship? The book contains almost a hundred quotes from this charismatic ancient philosopher. It appears as part of the beloved series "Great Thinkers in 60 Minutes" which has now been translated worldwide into six languages.
Great Thinkers In 60 Minutes Volume 5
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Author : Walther Ziegler
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2023-01-12
Great Thinkers In 60 Minutes Volume 5 written by Walther Ziegler and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-12 with Philosophy categories.
"Great Thinkers in 60 Minutes Volume 5" comprises the five books "Adorno in 60 Minutes", "Habermas in 60 Minutes", "Foucault in 60 Minutes", "Rawls in 60 Minutes", and "Popper in 60 Minutes". Each short study sums up the key idea at the heart of each respective thinker and asks the question: "Of what use is this key idea to us today?" But above all the philosophers get to speak for themselves. Their most important statements are prominently presented, as direct quotations, in speech balloons with appropriate graphics, with exact indication of the source of each quote in the author's works. This light-hearted but nonetheless scholarly precise rendering of the ideas of each thinker makes it easy for the reader to acquaint him- or herself with the great questions of our lives. Because every philosopher who has achieved global fame has posed the "question of meaning": what is it that holds, at the most essential level, the world together? For Adorno it is the dialectical development of civilization from the Stone Age up to capitalism along with the alienation of Man from Nature that goes with it. Habermas, by contrast, sees in this historical process of development the chance to gradually improve society through the emancipatory power of language in communicative action. Foucault remains sceptical here and reveals to us the rigid structures in which we, as modern individuals, are trapped. Rawls develops a complex and compelling procedure for the creation of an ideally just state of affairs. Popper, finally, establishes a quite new theory of science whereby every scientific truth has only a provisional character so that it must eventually be relieved and replaced by better truths. In other words, the meaning of the world and thus of our own lives remains, among philosophers, a topic of great controversy. One thing, though, is sure: each of these five thinkers struck, from his own perspective, one brilliant spark out of that complex crystal that is the truth.
Great Thinkers In 60 Minutes Volume 3
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Author : Walther Ziegler
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2023-01-11
Great Thinkers In 60 Minutes Volume 3 written by Walther Ziegler and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-11 with Philosophy categories.
"Great Thinkers in 60 Minutes Volume 3" comprises the five books "Confucius in 60 Minutes", "Buddha in 60 Minutes", "Epicurus in 60 Minutes", "Descartes in 60 Minutes", and "Hobbes in 60 Minutes". Each short study sums up the key idea at the heart of each respective thinker and asks the question: "Of what use is this key idea to us today?" But above all the philosophers get to speak for themselves. Their most important statements are prominently presented, as direct quotations, in speech balloons with appropriate graphics, with exact indication of the source of each quote in the author's works. This light-hearted but nonetheless scholarly precise rendering of the ideas of each thinker makes it easy for the reader to acquaint him- or herself with the great questions of our lives. Because every philosopher who has achieved global fame has posed the "question of meaning": what is it that holds, at the most essential level, the world together? For Confucius it is the search for the Dao, for the right path that leads us human beings to one another. For the Buddha it is a radical liberation from our needs and the approach, through meditation, to Nirvana. For Epicurus, by contrast, the meaning of life consists in the letting-be of our pleasures and the imbeddedness of existence in our bodies. Descartes, for his part, considers thinking to be the decisive quality of Man, allowing him to explore and master the world. Hobbes, finally, sees the central element of meaning to consist in humans' peaceful coexistence thanks to the founding of states, i.e. in a political act. In other words, the meaning of the world and thus of our own lives remains, among philosophers, a topic of great controversy. One thing, though, is sure: each of these five thinkers struck, from his own perspective, one brilliant spark out of that complex crystal that is the truth.
Nietzsche In 60 Minutes
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Author : Walther Ziegler
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2018-06-21
Nietzsche In 60 Minutes written by Walther Ziegler and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-21 with Philosophy categories.
Nietzsche has the reputation of being the most provocative and controversial of all philosophers. What he demanded of humanity was something tremendous: that we should develop beyond ourselves and become "overmen". Formerly, we could draw a meaning for our lives from religion. But this is no longer possible because, as Nietzsche says: "God is dead!" This brief dictum has echoed around the world. Man, Nietzsche argues, has freed himself, with the rise of the natural sciences, from all belief in a "beyond" and now has, for the first time, the chance to take his existence into his own hands. Most human beings, however, prove unable to fill the gap in their lives that the "death of God" has left. They continue to seek salvation in such new gods, or idols, as nationalism, socialism, racism, or capitalism. But instead of slipping into the blind worship of these new gods, or "godlets", we need - so argues Nietzsche - rather to trust in our own selves, allow our own "will to power" to unfold, and become "overmen". Just as flowers stretch up toward the sun and animals seek constantly after nourishment, we human beings too must struggle every day to secure our lives and render them richer and more intense. In daily life, conducting this struggle must always mean, in part, conducting it at other people's expense: whoever, for example, applies for a job as a manager and gets it will necessarily cause bitter disappointment among those who applied and failed. "One furthers one's ego always at the expense of others", writes Nietzsche. But "will to power" finds a whole series of very different forms of expression. The artist, the father of a family, the politician, the businessman, the employee, indeed every one of us individually, must find his or her own highly personal and particular path to self-development. "Become who you are!" "Nietzsche in 60 Minutes" explains his exhilarating philosophy step by step making use of some 160 of the most important passages from his works.