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Why
The World Doesn't Exist
By Gabriel
The Commercial Press 2021
This book is a popular work of popular philosophy by Marcus Gabriel, a professor at the University of Bonn, and the author begins with the history of philosophy and everyday experience, and expounds the "new realism" philosophy he created and developed in a simple and simple way. The author points out that the book is strictly opposed to metaphysics. What he called "metaphysics" referred to all attempts to derive a picture of the world as a whole from one principle, one science. Therefore, the "world" does not exist, only the various fields of meaning in which real things appear, and the free, realistic things that exist in these fields of meaning.
Although this book is a purely philosophical work and introduces contemporary academic thought, the author has changed the long-winded and boring way of writing previous philosophical works and papers, and the text is simple and vivid, and the narrative is eloquent. The author is very good at taking examples from life, and borrows a lot of examples from contemporary media such as novels, movies, and television, and integrates difficult theories into the daily life of life, which is both profound and interesting.
Markus Gabriel, who became a chair professor at the University of Bonn at the age of 28, is the youngest professor of philosophy in Germany in history, whose representative works include "The Domain of Meaning: An Existential Theory of a New Realism", "Why the World Does Not Exist", "Ancient Skepticism and Conceptualism", and "Philosophy of mind for the Twenty-first Century".
Why the world does not exist
Table of contents of the book
Introduction Rethinking Philosophy
Illusion and existence
New realism
More than one world
Less than none
Chapter One: The World, What Is It Exactly?
You and the universe
materialism
"The world is all real"
Constructivism
Philosopher and physicist
Chapter 2: What is Existence?
Super objects
Monism, dualism, pluralism
Difference versus relative difference
The field of meaning
Chapter Three: Why the World Doesn't Exist
Super thinking
Nihilism and non-existence
The outer world and the inner world
Chapter Four: The World Picture of the Natural Sciences
naturalism
monism
The Book of the World
Subjective truth
Forest Road
Science and art
Chapter V The Meaning of Religion 137
fetishism
boundless
Religion and the search for meaning
God's role
Chapter Six: The Meaning of Art
Ambiguous
On meaning and denotation
Analogy to the devil
Reflexivity
diversity
Epilogue TV
A show that doesn't matter
Feelings...
...... And the meaning of life
Glossary of terms
Index of people's names
Postscript