Ebook: Philosophers Behaving Badly

Those seeking in philosophy a guide for the perplexed should be warned. While philosophy can enlighten, it can also mislead and delude. As Descartes observed,?The greatest souls are capable of the greatest vices as well as the greatest virtues.' This book explores the perils of philosophy. It shows that philosophers' own behaviour, sometimes bad, sometimes sad, occasionally downright mad, is seldom entirely unconnected with their thinking. Philosophers Behaving Badly examines the lives of eight great philosophers: Rousseau, whose views on education and the social order seem curiously.;Cover; Title Page; Contents; A Cautionary Note ... ; Introduction; 1. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Philosopher as Victim; 2. Arthur Schopenhauer: The Rebarbative Bodhisattva; 3. Friedrich Nietzsche: A Sickly ÜBermensch; Feature: Nietzsche and Nazism; 4. Bertrand Russell: The Mathematics of Human Behaviour; 5. Ludwig Wittgenstein: Anger and Asceticism; 6. Martin Heidegger: Magician, Predator, Peasant and Nazi; Feature: The HéLoïSe Complex; 7. Jean-Paul Sartre: Intellectual Tyranny, Charm and Bad Faith; Feature: Women Philosophers Behaving Badly; 8. Michel Foucault: Madness, Sex and Punishment.