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Glyn Hughes'
SQUASHED PHILOSOPHERS
THE BOOKS WHICH DEFINED THE WAY WE THINK NOW.
Their own ideas, in their own words, neatly honed into little half-hour or so reads.
"Like reading the bible without all the begats" - Jim Curtis



The First Philosophers "Philosophy begins with Thales" The First Philosophers


CONFUCIUS "The object of the superior man is truth" The Analects (c450BC)


PLATO

"Until Philosophers are kings...cities will never have rest from their troubles".

The Republic (c355BC)
The Symposium (c355BC)
The Apology (c355BC)


ARISTOTLE

"If it is in our power to act nobly, it is also in our power to do evil."

Nicomachean Ethics (c300BC)
The Politics (c300BC)


EPICURUS

"No pleasure is a bad thing in itself"

Sovran Maxims (c300BC)


CICERO

"Virtue is the foundation of friendship"

On Friendship and Old Age (c50BC)


Marcus AURELIUS

"...We live but for a moment"

Meditations (c180AD)


St AUGUSTINE

"Too late have I come to love you, O beauty so ancient and so fresh"

Confessions (c390)


Severinus BOETHIUS

"The good are always strong"

The Consolation of Philosophy (c520)


Desiderius ERASMUS

"Fortune favours the fool."

In Praise of Folly (1515)


Thomas MORE

"All princes have more delights in warlike matters... than in the good feats of peace"

Utopia (1515)


Niccolò MACHIAVELLI

"Men ought either to be well treated or crushed"

The Prince (1520)


Nicolaus COPERNICUS

"Therefore, the earth is not flat"

Revolutions of the Celestial Orbs (1543)


Francis BACON

"if a man ... be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

The Advancement of Learning (1605)


René DESCARTES

"I think, therefore I am"

Meditations on First Philosophy (1641)
Discourse on Method (1637)


Thomas HOBBES

"...the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short"

Leviathan (1651)


Blaise PASCAL

"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed."

Thoughts (1660)


Baruch SPINOZA

"there can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope"

Ethics (1677)


Isaac NEWTON

"I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me."

Natural Mathematical Principles of Philosophy (1677)


John LOCKE

"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts"

Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)


Gottfried LEIBNIZ

"The soul is the mirror of the universe"

Monadology (1698)


George BERKELEY

"Essence IS perception"

Principles of Human Knowledge (1710)


David HUME

"It is never possible to deduce judgements of value from matters of fact"

Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1751)


Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU

"Man was born free, and everywhere he is in irons"

The Social Contract (1762)


Adam SMITH

"It is not from the benevolence of the.. baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest."

The Wealth of Nations (1776)


Immanuel KANT

"Reason is the pupil of itself alone. It is the oldest of the sciences"

Critiques of Pure & Practical Reason (1781)
Metaphysics of Morals (1785)


Jeremy BENTHAM

"Mankind is governed by pain and pleasure"

Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789)


Thomas PAINE

"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil"

The Rights of Man (1792)


Mary WOLLSTONECRAFT

"I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves."

Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792)


Le Marquis De SADE

"Cruelty is a virtue, not a vice."

Philosophy in the Boudoir (1795)


Auguste COMTE

"Society... cannot be regarded as composed of individuals.."

Positive Philosophy (1795)


Carl Von CLAUSEWITZ

"War is the continuation of politics by other means"

On War (1830)


Alexis de Tocqueville "In America I saw more than America; I sought the image of democracy itself." Democracy in America (1835)


GWF HEGEL

"God is the absolute truth."

The Philosophy of Religion (1832)
The Philosophy of History (1837)


Ralph Waldo EMERSON "A man is a god in ruins." Nature (1836)


Arthur SCHOPENHAUER

"We can surely never arrive at the nature of things from without."

The World as Will and Idea (1844)


MARX and ENGELS

"The ideas of the ruling class are the ruling ideas."

The German Ideology (1846)
The Communist Manifesto (1846)


John Stuart MILL

"Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign."

On Liberty (1859)
A System of Logic (1843)


Henry D THOREAU

"It is never too late to give up our prejudices.."

Walden (1854)


Charles DARWIN

"...endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved."

On The Origin of Species (1859)


Friedrich NIETZSCHE

"When you stare into an abyss ... the abyss also stares into you".

Beyond Good and Evil (1886)


William JAMES

"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience".

Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)


Sigmund FREUD

"...we men... find reality generally quite unsatisfactory"

Psychoanalysis (1910)


Albert EINSTEIN

"Gott würfelt nicht (God does not play dice)"

Relativity (1916)


Ludwig WITTGENSTEIN

"The world is the totality of facts, not things."

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921)


A.J. AYER

"...logic and mathematics are true simply because we never allow them to be anything else."

Language, Truth + Logic (1936)


Jean-Paul SARTRE

"Once freedom has exploded in the soul of man, the gods no longer have any power over him"

Existentialism is a Humanism (1945)


Alan TURING

"Can machines think?"

Computing Machinery & Intelligence (1950)


Sir Karl POPPER

"Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification"

The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1957)


Ayn RAND "Objectivist ethics proudly advocates and upholds rational selfishness." The Virtue of Selfishness (1964)



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© Glyn Hughes is the author of this collected work of condensation and abridgement and asserts his right to be recognised as such in accordance with Section 78 of the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988. The use of the word 'Squashed' as part of the title of works of condensation, abridgement, is a Trade Name. 'Squashed Philosophers' 'Squashed Divines' and 'Squashed Writers' are Trade Names.

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Economia chineza ii pandeste la coltul crizei pe americani -Autor: Teodora Bodeanu

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Economia chineza ii pandeste la coltul crizei pe americani

Joi, 30 Iulie 2009, ora 06:27

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Statele Unite ale Americii si China incearca sa faca front comun pentru combatarea crizei economice mondiale, insa, in realitate, se duce o adevarata lupta pentru cine va fi liderul lumii, dupa iesirea din recesiune.

Dupa doua zile de intalniri la nivel inalt, ambele parti au recunoscut importanta consultarii pe teme economice, insa nu au reusit sa fie de acord asupra unor masuri concrete de cooperare.

"Desi punem bazele unei colaborari mai apropiate, acest lucru s-ar putea sa nu produca efecte concrete imediate", a recunoscut secretarul de stat
Hillary Clinton, citata de Financial Times. Ea a adaugat, totusi, ca nivelul de cooperare va fi unul nemaintalnit pana acum intre cele doua tari.

Atat China, cat si Statele Unite sunt liderii mondiali in acordarea stimulilor financiari, iar Guvernul de la Beijing este de acord cu cel din Washington, care a cerut Chinei sa isi majoreze consumul la nivel national si sa-si reduca dependenta de exporturi.

"Cooperarea dintre China si SUA va ramane vitala nu doar pentru binele celor doua tari, ci si pentru sanatatea economiei globale", a spus secretarul Trezoreriei americane, Tim Geithner.

In timp ce Statele Unite au promis sa-si scada deficitul bugetar, pana in 2013, China a fost de acord sa reorienteze economia spre consumul intern, precum era in trecut. De asemenea, SUA au pus accentul pe reglementarea mai severa a sistemului financiar, iar Beijingul si-a aratat intentia de a liberaliza propriul sector financiar.

Oficialii chinezi au promis ca o sa trateze companiile straine in acelasi mod ca pe cele locale, mai ales cand vine vorba de contractele cu statul. Dar, avand in vedere ca este cel mai mare proprietar de titluri de stat americane, Guvernul chinez are indoili cu privire la siguranta investitiei a sute miliarde de dolari, desi expunerea sa la moneda nord americana o impiedica sa critice prea asupru politicile monetare ale SUA.

"Drept tara care emite moneda de referinta, SUA trebuie sa gaseasca echilibrul si sa gestioneze corect impactul dolarului asupra economiei mondiale", a spus Wang Qishan, vicepremierul chinez.

China preia conducerea de la Statele Unite

In toate crizele din ultimul secol si jumatate, americanii au avut castig de cauza: au suferit poate mai mult decat oamenii altor tari, dar au iesit mai puternic din fiecare dintre aceste crize, SUA fiind liderul economic mondial.

Presa de peste hotare spune ca presedintele american, Barack Obama, a reusit sa aduca economia tarii sale pe linie plutire, iesind din recesiune, in urma unor rapoarte pozitive privind cresterea vanzarilor de locuinte, a productiei si a cererii la consum.

Este, oare, mai mult un castig de imagine pentru Obama, decat unul real pentru SUA? Bineinteles, faptul ca recesiunea se apropie de sfarsit nu poate fi decat un lucru bun. Insa, obisnuita cu prima pozitie, tara ar putea avea dificultati in a accepta ca a pierdut acest loc in favoarea Chinei.

Aceasta din urma a obtinut, in al doilea trimestru din acest an, o crestere economica de 7,9 procente, in timp ce analistii estimeaza o crestere de numai 2,5% a economiei americane, in cel de-al treilea trimestru, potrivit Newsweek.

De asemenea, multi economisti sunt de parere ca autoritatile americane sunt optimiste fara a avea o baza reala, cand anunta iesirea din criza, inaintea tuturor celorlalte state, avand in vedere ca somajul se apropie de 10%, iar sistemul bancar tot nu a rezolvat problema activelor toxice, evaluate la cateva miliarde de dolari.

Spre deosebire de China, consumul din Statele Unite a ajuns la cote maxime, inainte de criza, prin urmare economia ar trebui sa se bazeze pe altceva pentru crestere, doua dintre optiuni fiind exporturile si economiile, adica exact modelul pe care s-a bazat statul asiatic in ultimii ani.

Acest lucru nu se poate face, insa, peste noapte, iar China este mai mult decat pregatita sa preia fraiele economiei mondiale. De altfel, ea si-a inceput deja atacul. Beneficiind de cele mai mari rezerve valutare din lume, Guvernul chinez a dat mana libera la achizitia de companii straine, acesta fiind, poate, primul pas al "invaziei".
Sursa: Ziare.com
Autor: Teodora Bodeanu

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