Χαρτόδετο.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Socrates, the sting ray of Athens -- Plato: the shadow, the cave, and the dazzling sun -- Aristotle: finding the golden mean -- Descartes: are there rotten apples in that basket? -- Hume: custom, the cement of the universe -- Wollstonecraft: the oak that braved the storm -- Kant: the starry skies and the moral law -- Hegel: negation and progress -- Beauvoir: more than kings and conquerors -- Wittgenstein: duck-rabbits and talking lions -- Contemporary voices.