lunes, 2 de abril de 2012

Los libros más cortos del mundo

The World's Shortest Philosophy Books


The Complete History of Philosophy by Anaximander
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. Thales: "Water is the source of all things"
Index



The Complete History of Philosophy (Revised Edition) by Anaximenes
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. Thales: "Water is the source of all things"
Chapter 2. Anaximander: "The Boundless is the source of all things"
Index


Coping with Change by Parmenides

A Rational Account of the Physical World by Plato

The Role of Sexual Passion in the Christian Marriage by St. Augustine

A Complete Inventory of Everything that Exists by Benedict Spinoza
Complete text:
1. Substance = God = Nature
2. Modes of God's Being


How We Can Make this a Better World by Gottfried Leibniz

Achieving Self-Knowledge by David Hume

The Wit and Humor of Immanuel Kant

What I Learned from the Noumena by Immanuel Kant

Hegel for Dummies: Everything in Hegel that Can Be Understood by the Average Person

What Reason Can Tell Us about God by Søren Kierkegaard

Nietzsche's Logic

What Next for Capitalism? by Karl Marx

Our Natural Rights by Jeremy Bentham

Everything You Wanted to Know about the Mystical but Were Afraid to Ask
by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Contemporary Metaphysics by Morris Schlick

Principles of Ethics by Rudolf Carnap
Compete text: "Boo," "Hiss," and "Hurrah"

What I Learned from Heidegger by Rudolf Carnap

A Theology for Our Time by A. J. Ayer

Ethical Theory by Jean-Paul Sartre
Complete text: "You are free, therefore choose-that is to say, invent."

Our Duties to Others by Ayn Rand

The Most Important Choices I Made in My Life by B. F. Skinner

Principles of Aesthetics by A. J. Ayer
Complete text: "ooooh, aaaaah" (From Bob Westmoreland, UM)

Contributions from Bob Barnard, UM


All about Nothing by Martin Heidegger

My Disembodied Self by Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Things I Haven't Reconsidered by Bertrand Russell

Things to Say about Whereof One Cannot Speak by Ludwig Wittgenstein

How to Do Things with Grunting Noises by J. L. Austin

What I Really Meant by Jacques Derrida

Contributions from Richard Frothingham, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Arkansas at Little Rock


Don't Be an Ass by Jean Buridan

My Favorite Indulgences by Martin Luther
The John Calvin Joke Book
Sin As Illusion by Karl Barth
Anxiety As Myth by Kierkegaard
Fear of Students by Moritz Schlick
What I Believe by Bertrand Russell (New York: Dutton, 1925)--(An actual book, small in physical size and short in contents.)

From Richard Frothingham, UALR. Another kind of list, consisting of titles suggested by philosophers' names.


Watch Your Waistline by Peter Abelard
Descartes, Before the Horse (Based on an old saying and a joke based on the saying.)
Sure You Can by I. Kant
The Grass Is Wet by John Dewey
Asleep at the Wheel by Rudolf Carnap
Henry More, Or Less
Dispel Gloom by Arthur Oncken Lovejoy
Inspection of Sanitary Facilities by George Henry Lewes