Western Philosophy Card Set

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20 cards in a gift boxIntroducing ideas from Western PhilosophyCards to bring philosophical ideas into our daily lives159mm x 115mm x 20mmWestern Philosophy

Philosophy is a discipline committed to helping us live wiser and less sorrowful lives. This card set draws together twenty of the greatest ideas found in Western philosophy, spanning the history of thought from Socrates to Jean-Paul Sartre. Each is displayed on a beautiful illustrated card. We are reminded of the wit, humanity and relevance of a number of philosophes including Nietzsche and Heidegger, Kant and Camus, Machiavelli and Kierkegaard. Essential thoughts about love, work, anxiety, self-knowledge and happiness are rescued, highlighted and inspiringly presented here so they can work their consoling effect where it is more needed: in our daily lives.

Example ContentEudaimonia: 'This is an Ancient Greek word, normally translated as 'fulfilment', particularly emphasised by the philosopher Aristotle. It deserves wider currency because it corrects the shortfalls in one of the most central terms in our contemporary idiom: happiness. The Ancient Greeks resolutely did not believe that the purpose of life was to be happy; they proposed that it was to be fulfilled. It is eminently possible to be fulfilled and, at the same time, under pressure, suffering physically or mentally, overburdened and in a tetchy mood. [...] Henceforth, we shouldn't try to be happy; we should accept the greater realism, ambition and patience that accompanies the quest for eudaimonia.'The Sublime: 'The concept of the sublime refers to an experience of vastness (of space, age, time) beyond calculation or comprehension - a sense of awe that we might feel before an ocean, a glacier, the Earth from a plane, or a starry sky. [...] The Sublime grants us a perspective from which our own concerns seem mercifully irrelevant.'