Russell Hasan

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A Brief History of the Ideas of Western Philosophy: Sensations, Necessity, Knowledge, and God (eBook, ePUB)

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This book is a survey of the most important ideas in the history of Western philosophy. The idea is stated, along with the name of the philosopher who first or most famously articulated it, a brief explanation and analysis of the idea is provided, and then the book moves on to the next idea. By the end of this book, you should have a sense of all the most important ideas in philosophy, as well as a scheme for how those ideas all fit together and relate to each other, forming a comprehensive, simple, elegant, and powerful, vision of philosophy.
The book is divided into the following sections, based around the historical phases of philosophy: Modern philosophy, featuring Locke, Hume, Descartes, Berkeley, Kant, Schopenhauer, and Hegel, followed by a special section with an analysis of Karl Marx as Left-Hegelian and Ayn Rand as Right-Hegelian; Ancient philosophy, featuring Heraclitus, Parmenides, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Thomas Aquinas; Post-Modern philosophy, featuring Wittgenstein, Sartre, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche; ethics and moral philosophy, featuring Utilitarianism, Pragmatism, Augustine, Kant, Karl Marx, and Ayn Rand; political philosophy, featuring Rousseau, Hobbes, Karl Marx, Ayn Rand, Rawls, and Nozick; and lastly there is a section on the author Russell Hasan's own philosophical ideas, and how they fit into the narrative of the history of the ideas of Western philosophy.
I must caution my reader that my methods in writing this book are, perhaps, more the methodology of a lawyer than that of a philosopher, as I was taught in law school the system for the analysis of case law, that, for a case, instead of focusing on the language of the case and specific quotes of what the judge said, you summarize the entire case into one single sentence, which is the proposition that the entire case stands for as a whole. As ambitious as this is, in this book, I have at times taken some of the greatest philosophers in human history and summarized them in one sentence.

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Russell Hasan was born the son of a white Jewish mother and a dark-skinned Muslim fatherand that isn't the strangest thing about him. His father had ties to the mafianope, not the weirdest thing about him. He thought he was a gay man for many years before realizing he is agender asexualrelatively normal compared to what truly makes him strange. Do you want to know what the weirdest, strangest thing about Russell is?

He's a WRITER.

Yes, that's right. He writes. Why? How? Why would he want to do that to himself? How could he allow this to happen to himself? He is still trying to figure that one out. Therapy can cure lots of things and alcohol and drugs can cure other things, but the only cure for being a writer is to write, so he writes. He's not into BDSM, yet for some reason he has chosen to punish himself by having a passion for writing and a need to write. Despite having made the huge mistake of choosing to be a writer, his books have sold over 10,000 copies, so perhaps it was not the worst mistake he ever made after all. He does not have one particular bestseller but has instead spread those 10,000 sales across many books he wrote. His magical journey of self-torture begins when he has the idea for a new book, and then continues when he wakes up at 6am to write from 6am to 8am before work every day (he has a day jobhe's not insane! His day job is being a lawyer, the most boring, evil job in the world, by the way), and, after many cups of Starbucks matcha tea and Coca Cola (never Pepsiyuck!) he somehow puts words onto a page. He has written 30 books, both nonfiction and fiction, but, as something of a twist on the traditional successful indie author model, he is known more for his indie nonfiction, not his fiction. But he does write fiction. Some of his fiction is good too, probably, he hopes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Russell Hasan
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798231849888
• Artikelnr.: 74059779