How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy

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This bold, fascinating book seeks to inhabit other philosophical traditions, with humility but without patronisingly exempting them from the critique he applies to ours.” Jane O’Grady, Financial Times

How the World Thinks’ by Julian Baggini | The British Academy ‘How the World Thinks’ by Julian Baggini | The British Academy

We drink copious cups at work to get through the day, only to come home and sit down with a cuppa. The world thinks it’s so weird how obsessed we are with tea, but we love our cuppas! 1. Saying thanks to the bus driver – it’s nice to be nice Credit: Pixabay / Hans Get intelligence from our ever-growing source of consumer data on 24 million+ registered panel members in 55+ markets. So rather than structuring the book around distinct bodies of ideas - e.g. Islam, Buddhism, western philosophy, etc. - and going through everything that body of thought think about how we know, who we are, etc., Baggini flips things around, only touching on philosophies he thinks relate to the topic of the chapter. E.g. In the chapter on No self, he talks about Buddhism, in the chapter on harmony he talks about Taoism, in the chapter on naturalism he talks about Shintoism, etc. with multiple philosophies considered within each chapter.Conversely, Western countries are not as secular as they claim to be. Western missionaries still invade other cultures seeking to buy converts under the guise of altruism and the only public holidays are those dedicated to Christian festivals. Julian Baggini’s new book is so timely and so important. … T his, I would say, is his best to date.” Stuart Kelly, Scotland on Sunday First, let's appreciate the beautiful patterns and colours of the cover! Second of all, this took me a while to read. It was a struggle as I couldn't focus on the info. It was hard to get into with so much info as if Baggini had expected me to already know what everything means, but I just had no clue. I didn't gain much knowledge about other areas of the world as much as I wanted to because Baggini just totally lost me. The blurred lines between philosophy on the one hand, and theology, anthropology and folklore/superstition on the other hand. (Baggini does include a lot of theology, for example, but doesn't cover beliefs which are held as superstitions rather than which form part of a body of logical ideas)

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The finding of the Wellcome Trust of mostly very positive attitudes towards vaccines – a health intervention that saves millions of lives and eradicated one of the worst diseases humanity ever faced – is a very positive finding. One of the great unexplained wonders of human history is that written philosophy flowered entirely separately in China, India and Ancient Greece at more or less the same time. These early philosophies have had a profound impact on the development of distinctive cultures in different parts of the world. What we call ‘philosophy’ in the West is not even half the story.

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A marvellous and original introduction to a complex field, highly personal, entertaining, fact-filled, and even entertaining. Worth reading and re-reading.” Marina Vaizey, theartsdesk Licenses: All visualizations, data, and articles produced by Our World in Data are open access under the Creative Commons BY license. You have permission to use, distribute, and reproduce these in any medium, provided the source and authors are credited. All the software and code that we write is open source and made available via GitHub under the permissive MIT license. All other material, including data produced by third parties and made available by Our World in Data, is subject to the license terms from the original third-party authors.

How the World Thinks By Julian Baggini | Used | 9781783782307 How the World Thinks By Julian Baggini | Used | 9781783782307

I read this in the wee hours of the night, a lullaby composed of fragments of musings over existence and ethics from around the world, if you will. It is only natural to wake up in the middle of disjoint dreams and muse over it myself. QI believes that the saying evolved over time, and famous humorist Will Rogers popularized an intriguing tripartite variant in the 1930s. See further below. It gave me some information to analyse on my own accords. I do not consider that this book is meant to change your understanding or thinking of the world; however, it does provide many nice bread crumbs for your enjoyment, or discussion with your friends, colleagues or peers. Timely and important...this is his best [book] to date... Enthralling... This ingenious and open-hearted book is about the art of living well, something the West's philosophy has often neglected" - Stuart Kelly, Scotland on Sunday

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Dear Quote Investigator: One’s sensitivity to the opinions of others often changes as one matures. The following statement has been attributed to statesman Winston Churchill: Portrait of Confucius, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Photograph: Christophel Fine Art/UIG via Getty Images You all have heard what the educated Bellario has written. And I assume this is the lawyer coming now.