Thinking about Ordinary Things
A Short Invitation to Philosophy
Distributed for Karolinum Press, Charles University
Thinking about Ordinary Things
A Short Invitation to Philosophy

Table of Contents
Introduction
1 Philosophy: between Science, Art and Myth
2 How We See and Hear
3 Perception and Attention
4 Things, Words and Names
5 Language and Thought
6 Man in the World
7 Holiday and Everyday, Myth and Logos
8 You and I
9 Action and Freedom
10 Play
11 Language as Play
12 Time
13 Science and Knowledge
14 Truth
15 Scale and Ratio
16 Likeness and Imitation
17 Life
18 Nature
19 Necessity and Change
20 Technique and Technology
21 Society, Institutions and State
22 Values and Money
23 Custom and Society
24 Morality and Ethics
25 Law
26 Text and Interpretation
27 The City
28 History
29 What Happens in History?
30 Civilisation, Culture, and Religion
31 Tolerance and Pluralism
32 Man and the World
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