1. 1PP2029i2 Bluffer’s Guide To Philosophy

2. 2PP2029i2 The problem What on Earth is Utilitarianism? Conversation at Dinner Parties

3. 3PP2029i2 The Bluffers Guide Solution – The bluffer’s guide to philosophy Ultimate guide to all things philosophical Bluffer’s Guide To Philosophy

4. 4PP2029i2 Ancient Greeks What they’re famous for “the European philosophical tradition… consists in a series of footnotes to Plato.” A. N. Whitehead S, P, A

5. 5PP2029i2 Socrates The start of it all… “By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.” c.470-399 BC

6. 6PP2029i2 Plato Where it really took off… “Until managers become philosophers, or philosophers managers, things will never go well in this world.” c.428- 347 BC

7. 7PP2029i2 Aristotle The most intelligent man who ever lived? “In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities.” c.384 - 322 BC

8. 8PP2029i2 The Geocentric View Whoops

9. 9PP2029i2 Nothing happened

10. 10PP2029i2 Nothing happened Quite dull

11. 11PP2029i2 Nothing happened Goats, pigs and sheep

12. 12PP2029i2 Nothing happened Quite a lot of Christians

13. 13PP2029i2 Nothing happened A few wars

14. 14PP2029i2 The Renaissance! The Beginning of life as we know it!

15. 15PP2029i2 Niccolo Machiavelli The end justifies the means “it is much safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.” 1469 - 1527

16. 16PP2029i2 Rene Descartes Founder of modern philosophy “I shall then suppose… some evil genius… has employed his whole energies in deceiving me.” 1596 - 1650

17. 17PP2029i2 John Stuart Mill The greater good for the greater number Unfortunately, not very quotable. 1806 - 1873

18. 18PP2029i2 Friedrich Nietzsche The beginning of the end “There are absolutely no moral phenomenon, only moral interpretation of phenomenon…” 1844 - 1900

19. 19PP2029i2 Postmodernism It’s not modernism “ Less is more.” Mies van der Rohe

20. 20PP2029i2 Postmodernism So what is it? “ In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.” Andy Warhol

21. 21PP2029i2 God What is the answer to the question ‘why?’? “Let us teach altruism, because we are born selfish.” Richard Dawkins For God: The presence of a watch implies the existence of a watchmaker. The existence of man implies the existence of God

22. 22PP2029i2 Evolution ‘Why anything?’ ‘Because it reproduced best’ Against God: Evolution! 1809 - 1882

23. 23PP2029i2 Bibliography “The multitude of books is making us ignorant” Voltaire Any questions? Introducing Plato, Robinson & Groves, 2000 Pooh and the Philosophers, Williams, 1997 The Prince, Machiavelli, 1961 Introducing Machiavelli, Curry & Zarate, 2000 Minds and Bodies, Wilkinson, 1999 Introducing Descartes, Robinson & Garratt, 1999 Arguments for Freedom, Warburton, 1999 Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche, 2002 Introducing Nietzsche, Gane & Chan, 1999 Introducing Moderism, Rodrigues & Garratt, 2001 Introducing Postmodernism, Appignanesi & Garratt, 1999 The Selfish Gene, Dawkins, 1989