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The Squashed Philosophers

In their own words. Condensed and abridged to keep the substance, the style and the quotes, but ditching all that irritating verbiage.

Glyn Lloyd-Hughes

Life, unfortunately, is rather short, the little storeroom of the brain doesn't have extensible walls and the greatest of thinkers seem to be among the dullest, and the lengthiest, of writers. Which is a pity, because your Prince, whether they call themselves President or King or Prime Minister, has almost certainly read Machiavelli. Your therapist is steeped in Freud, your divines in Augustine. Lawmakers take their cues still from Paine, Rousseau and Hobbes. Science looks yet to Bacon, Copernicus and Darwin.


So, here are the few most used, most quoted, the most given, sources of the West. The books that have defined the way The West thinks now, in their author's own words, but condensed and abridged into something readable. And there's more. By compressing these books to a tenth or so of their original size it becomes possible to read the whole thing as a single narrative, as the story of Western Thought, the story of how we got where we are now. The last chapter is waiting to be written.


Website: http://www.btinternet.com/~glynhughes/squashed/

"Enjoyable and useful."
-Ted Richards,
Dept. of Philosophy
University of Tornonto

"Like reading the Bible without
all the begats"
-Jim Curtis
Included in this volume:
PLATO
The Republic
ARISTOTLE
Nicomachean Ethics

Marcus AURELIUS
Meditations
St AUGUSTINE Confessions

Thomas MORE
Utopia
Niccolo MACHIAVELLI The Prince
Nicolaus COPERNICUS Revolutions of the Celestial Orbs

Francis BACON Advancement of Learning
Rene DESCARTES Meditations on First Philosophy
Thomas HOBBES Leviathan
Isaac NEWTON Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

George BERKELEY Principles of Human Knowledge
David HUME
 Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU Social Contract
Adam SMITH
 Wealth of Nations
Immanuel KANT Critique of Pure Reason
Thomas PAINE
The Rights of Man
Mary WOLLSTONECRAFT
A Vindication of the Rights of Women
Carl Von CLAUSEWITZ
On War  
Karl MARX
and
Friedrich ENGELS
German Ideology

Henry D THOREAU Walden
John Stuart MILL
On Liberty
Charles DARWIN On The Origin of Species

Friedrich NIETZSCHE Beyond Good and Evil
Sigmund FREUD History and Development of Psychoanalysis
Albert EINSTEIN
Relativity
AJ AYER
Language, Truth and Logic
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