The Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy

Gives easy to understand definitions of most of the Western philosophy terms. Not useful for Indian philosophy terms though.

This is a book which should be purchased by anyone interested in philosophy. All the major philosophers and their theories are covered in it. It is an ideal philosophy resource book for students as well as phillsophy enthusiasts.

1. Delivery was on time. 2. The package was fine. 3. Paper quality: 3 out of 5. 4. Print Quality: 3 out of 5. 5. Interesting appendix and tables and lists of facts are the things I expected but they miss. None at all. 6. The dictionary is good nonetheless. 7. August 2020 stock.

One of the finest book to learn about the terms of Philosophy...it helps really well.

It is a good compilation as far as Western systems of philosophy are concerned but very surprisingly, there is no mention of the religious philosophies of Indian origin such as Hinduism or Buddhism or Jainism, let alone the less known religious philosophies like Sikhism or the philosophy of the sect of the Lingayat Hindus. There is no mention of Adya Shankaracharya, the exponent of Advaitism nor of the Vedas or the Upanishads or various developemental stages in Hindu philosophic thoughts such as Yoga, Sankhya Nyaya, Poorva Mimamsa or Uttar Mimamsa. Even then, a book worth keeping as a valuable reference.

Book is not clean and some pages are twisted.. please exchange

Although well descripted but Indian terms excluded.... major cons of the book.

Producto que me fascina. Espero poder comprarlo de nuevo muy pronto como regalo en esa ocasión. Me llegó muy pronto. Quedé muy satisfecho.

This really is a great resource for almost any given term or philosopher you can think of. It is set out like a normal word dictionary but with more detail given to each term, subject, or philosopher. Some definitions range from a few paragraphs, and others cover a few pages. It's all done in concise, detailed, bite-size chunks, that are perfect for quick consumption. It's a great value philosophy book, that isn't short on details / definitions, so I really can't recommend it enough.

Is (German) 'Geist' a 'mass noun'? Yes, for the world-spirit is without plural. No, for there are many languages naming it. An 'insolubile'? If we use English to translate the German, we can say 'Geist' is mind, but 'Geister' – the plural as in Kant's title on the '...Geisterseher...' or Spirits-Seer (Swedenborg) – stands for ghosts leaving (English) 'spirit' – more mental than the German equivalent. Other occurrences of 'paradox' are found in articles on antinomy ('near-synonym' to 'paradox'), on Jean-Paul Sartre ('playful paradox'). What is philosophy? is itself a philosophical question, and this 'autological' quality is shared by both, philosophy and language. But philosophy is less important than its practice, doing philosophy, or philosophizing. Judged by how close a wordbook brings us to this activity Dictionary of Philosophy, edited by Thomas Mautner (second edition, 2005; formerly 'The Blackwell Dictionary of Philosophy', 1996; 'The Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy', 1997) is the most philosophical currently available. It is also still the most comprehensive single volume small format manual on the subject in English. Dictionary of Philosophy is excellent on relativism, on logic ('iff'), often on cross-language comparisons ('right'; 'apperception'), as well as on the classical languages ('predicables'; 'rhetoric'), and on semantic change over time. It includes multiple tables and figures. Let me tell you, this handy book has a wealth of epiphanic experience(s) in store, an abundance of detail and literature on 664 + xxiv pages, small print. I would situate it in humanities philosophy (cf. also: 'antihumanism') as distinguished from philosophy understood as (a) social (meta-)science. This includes a good amount of language criticism – e. g. '-ism, -ist'; 'philosophy of...'. Dictionary of Philosophy is a five star enterprise. I'd purchase a new edition – (Edwards's) Encyclopedia of Philosophy got one. Gosh, that 'perennial intellectual magnetism' (William Gerber) – of words!

dizionario di consultazione, molto utile da tenere vicino al tavolo di lavoro, quasi veloce come web, ma distrae di meno, quindi consigliato

コンパクトにして網羅性も十分です。各用語の説明、英文の質が良い。哲学畑の英文読解力をつけるのに本書はコストパフォーマンスが高い。