Ideas can, and do, change the world. Just as Marxism, existentialism, and feminism shaped the last century, so fundamentalism, globalization, and bioethics are transforming our world now. In "Ideas that Matter," renowned philosopher A.C. Grayling provides a personal dictionary of the ideas...

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Main Author:	Grayling, A. C. 1949- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London Phoenix 2010
Subjects:	Philosophy Philosophy / Encyclopedias Knowledge, Theory of Philosophie Gegenwart Ideengeschichte Erkenntnistheorie Wörterbuch
Summary:	Ideas can, and do, change the world. Just as Marxism, existentialism, and feminism shaped the last century, so fundamentalism, globalization, and bioethics are transforming our world now. In "Ideas that Matter," renowned philosopher A.C. Grayling provides a personal dictionary of the ideas that will shape our world in the decades to come. With customary wit, fire, and erudition, Grayling ranges across the gamut of essential theories, movements, and philosophies--from animal rights to neurophilosophy to war crimes--provoking and elucidating throughout--Book jacket
Item Description:	1. publ. in Great Britain in 2009 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. - Reprinted by arrangement with Weidenfeld and Nicolson. - Includes bibliographical references (p. [393]-411) and index Absolutism -- Accommodation Theory -- Activism -- Advertising -- Aesthetics -- Biodiversity -- Bioethics -- Biology -- Biopoiesis -- Black consciousness -- Black holes -- Black power -- Buddhism -- Business ethics -- Capitalism -- Catholicism -- Christianity -- Civilization -- Class -- Cloning -- Cognitive Science -- Cognitive therapy -- Communism -- Consequentialism -- Consumerism -- Creationism -- Daoism (Taoism) -- Democracy -- Deontology -- Economics -- Education -- Egoism -- Enlightenment -- Epistemology -- Equality -- Ethics -- Ethics, history of -- Ethnocentrism -- Euthanasia -- Evolution -- Existentialism -- Experimental philosophy -- Falsifiability -- Fascism -- Feminism -- Freedom of speech -- Fundamentalism -- Future, the -- Game theory -- Globalization -- Hinduism and Brahmanism -- History -- Humanism -- Human rights -- Identity -- Internet -- Intuitionism, mathematical and logical -- Irrationalism -- Islam -- Judaism -- Justice -- Law -- Liberalism -- Liberty -- Logic -- Logic, fallacies of informal -- Love -- Marxism -- Meaning, theory of -- Metaphysics -- Mind, philosophy of -- Multiculturalism -- Nationalism -- Neoconservatism -- Neurophilosophy -- Neuroscience -- Orthodox Christianity -- Philosophy -- Politics -- Positivism and logical positivism -- Postmodernism -- Privacy -- Protestantism -- Psychoanalysis -- Psychology -- Punishment -- Quantum mechanics -- Racism -- Realism -- Relativism -- Relativity -- Religion -- Romanticism -- Skepticism -- Science -- Scientific revolutions -- Secularism -- Slavery -- Socialism -- Sociobiology -- Standard model -- String theory -- Technology -- Terrorism -- Tolerance -- Totalitarianism -- Truth -- Utopia -- Vegetarianism -- Verificationism -- Virtue ethics -- War -- War crimes -- Wealth -- Westernization -- Xenophobia -- Zeitgeist
Physical Description:	XI, 610 S. Ill.