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A Brief History of the Paradox

Philosophy and the Labyrinths of the Mind

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An edition of A Brief History of the Paradox (2003)

A Brief History of the Paradox

Philosophy and the Labyrinths of the Mind

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  • 1 Currently reading

"Roy Sorensen offers the first narrative history of paradoxes, an account that extends from the ancient Greeks, through the Middle Ages, the Enlightenment, and into the twentieth century. When Augustine asked what God was doing before He made the world, he was told, "Preparing hell for people who ask questions like that." A Brief History of the Paradox takes a close look at "questions like that" and the philosophers who have asked them, beginning with the folk riddles that inspired Anaximander to erect the first metaphysical system and ending with such thinkers as Lewis Carroll, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and W.V. Quine. Organized chronologically, the book is divided into twenty-four chapters, each of which pairs a philosopher with a major paradox, allowing for extended consideration and putting a human face on the strategies that have been taken toward these puzzles. Readers get to follow the minds of Zeno, Socrates, Aquinas, Okham, Pascal, Kant, Hegel, and many other major philosophers deep inside the tangles of paradox."--Jacket.

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A Brief History of the Paradox: Philosophy and the Labyrinths of the Mind
December 15, 2004, Oxford University Press, USA
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Cover of: A Brief History of the Paradox
A Brief History of the Paradox: Philosophy and the Labyrinths of the Mind
December 4, 2003, Oxford University Press, USA
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Library of Congress
BC199.P2S67 2003, BC199.P2 S67 2003

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Open Library
OL7390458M
ISBN 10
0195159039
ISBN 13
9780195159035
LCCN
2003048631
OCLC/WorldCat
51969109, 53467306
Library Thing
72820
Goodreads
1503491

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