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On life
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ISBN: 1628941340 9781628941340 9781628941326 9781628941333 Year: 2015 Publisher: New York

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Dialogen schrijven : laat je personages spreken
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ISBN: 9789045704210 Year: 2010 Publisher: Antwerpen Amsterdam Augustus


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Post mortem : gesprekken in het vagevuur
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ISBN: 9029072385 Year: 2003 Publisher: Amsterdam : Meulenhoff,


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Invisible guests : the development of imaginal dialogues
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ISBN: 0881630454 Year: 1986 Publisher: Hillsdale, N.J. : Analytic Press,


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Imaginary philosophical dialogues : between sages down the ages
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ISBN: 3030653870 3030653862 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Springer,

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How would Plato have responded if his student Aristotle had ever challenged his idea that our senses perceive nothing more than the shadows cast upon a wall by a true world of perfect ideals? What would Charles Darwin have said to Karl Marx about his claim that dialectical materialism is a scientific theory of evolution? How would Jean-Paul Sartre have reacted to Simone de Beauvoir’s claim that the Marquis de Sade was a philosopher worthy of serious attention? This light-hearted book proposes answers to such questions by imagining dialogues between thirty-three pairs of philosophical sages who were alive at the same time. Sometime famous sages get a much rougher handling than usual, as when Adam Smith beards Immanuel Kant in his Konigsberg den. Sometimes neglected or maligned sages get a chance to say what they really believed, as when Epicurus explains that he wasn’t epicurean. Sometimes the dialogues are about the origins of modern concepts, as when Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat discuss their invention of probability, or when John Nash and John von Neumann discuss the creation of game theory. Even in these scientific cases, the intention is that the protagonists come across as fallible human beings like the rest of us, rather than the intellectual paragons of philosophical textbooks. .

The treasure of the city of ladies, or, the book of the three virtues
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ISBN: 014044453X Year: 1985 Publisher: Harmondsworth : Penguin Books,


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Slechts een woord van de macht verwijderd over macht, methodiek en loyaliteit.
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ISBN: 9789086791088 Year: 2008 Publisher: Roeselare,

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