Prologue_A Hitchhiker's Guide to "The History of Thought: A 5-Minute Philosophy Guide"

Chapter 1 How to Live?

If truth is a woman…
Nietzsche: God is Dead 1

If I were an Ubermensch…
Nietzsche: God is Dead 2

Fear and thrill
Kierkegaard: Theistic Existentialism

Remember death
Jaspers: Limit Situation_Transcendence through Frustration (feat.
existentialism)

To you who are anxious about making a choice
Sartre: Existence precedes essence.

The man who killed 6 million people
Hannah Arendt: The Banality of Evil

Please stop
Peter Singer and Tom Regan: The Animal Rights Debate

Blow!
John Nash: Game Theory and the Prisoner's Dilemma

Justice League
Rolls, Nozick, and Walzer: What is Justice?

The Three Faces of Happiness
Seligman: Positive Psychology

Why do I do this?
Simon Sinek: The Golden Circle

Chapter 2 What is a human being?

Another me inside me
Freud: The Interpretation of Dreams

Who am I?
Carl Jung: Analytical Psychology

Inferiority complex, that's not the problem
Adler: Individual Psychology

How Manager Kim Lives
Anna Freud, Vaillant: Defense Mechanisms

I exist where I don't think.
Lacan 1: The Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real

We desire the desire of others
Lacan 2: Desire

The unconscious is structured like language.
Lacan 3: The Mechanism of the Unconscious

A boring model answer
Erikson: Ego Psychology

Robot with depression
Behavioral Psychology and Philosophy (feat.
Skinner, Watson, Thorndike)

Is self-actualization really necessary?
Humanistic Psychology: Self-Actualization (feat.
Maslow, psychodynamic theory, behaviorist psychology)

How to achieve your dreams unconsciously
Psycho-Cybernetics: The First Self-Help Book

There's definitely one in five people
Personality disorders: paranoid, borderline, obsessive-compulsive, avoidant, dependent personality disorders, etc.

Does AlphaGo dream of becoming an electric sheep?
Artificial Intelligence and Human Thought (feat.
Gödel, Turing, Lucas, Penrose)

Chapter 3: Is truth absolute or relative?

How much is your god?
Pragmatism (feat.
Peirce, William James, Dewey)

My theory can't be wrong
Popper: Falsifiability

The philosopher who became a star with a three-page paper
Gettier: What is knowledge?

The philosopher who shot himself inside
Quine: Epistemological Holism

A constant dialogue between past and present
E.
H. Carr: What is History? (feat.
Rashomon)

Science, even you…
Thomas Kuhn: Paradigm Shifts

Reject unwanted outcomes
Hanson: Theory Dependence of Observations

Is that really natural?
Foucault: Words, Knowledge, Madness

A bottle of useless doubt
Putnam's Brain in the Box: 6 Reasons Why This World Isn't Virtual

Chapter 4: Language, What is Structuralism?

Philosophy like mathematics, mathematics like philosophy
Frege: Sense and Reference

The beginning of structuralism
Saussure: Structuralist Theory of Language

Sad Tropics
Levi-Strauss: Structuralist Anthropology

The king of Korea is bald
Russell: Theory of Technology

Whereof we cannot speak, whereof we must remain silent.
Wittgenstein 1: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Psychopath Game
Wittgenstein 2: Theory of Language Uses

Seongcheol and Wittgenstein
Philosophical Reflections on Enlightenment

How did we learn to speak?
Language acquisition theories: Skinner, Chomsky, Piaget (feat.
Kant)

Chapter 5 What is Existence?

The world seen through the eyes of my consciousness
Husserl: Transcendental Phenomenology (feat.
Heidegger, William James, The Wings of Ideals)

Stay hungry, stay full
Heidegger: Being and Time (feat.
Steve Jobs)

Enough with the ridiculous dramas
Deleuze: Difference and Repetition, Trees and Rhizomes, and the Ontology of Events

The philosopher suspected of being a fraud
Derrida: Deconstruction (feat.
Grammatology)

The philosopher who challenged Einstein
Bergson: Time as Pure Duration

Is the assassination of Caesar a thing of the past?
McTaggart: Time Doesn't Exist (feat.
Shoemaker, Fryer)

Can you choose your future?
Determinism and Free Will (feat.
Frank Pert, Daniel Dennett)

Why does the universe exist?
Steven Weinberg: The Anthropic Principle

What it's like to be a bat
Physicalism (feat.
Mary, Zombie, Bat)

Chapter 6: Philosophy of Science & Philosophy of Mathematics

Death Obstetrics and Gynecology Ward
Hempel: Scientific Explanatory Theory

half-dead cat
Quantum Mechanics: The Hundred Years' War Over the Death of the Cat

Determinism, quantum mechanics, butterfly effect
Laplace: Laplace's Demon (feat.
Descartes)

Determinism, fatalism, and block universe theory
Determinism: Is the future already determined?

Inevitability that seems like coincidence
Carl Jung: Synchronicity and the Holographic Universe

Andromeda Paradox
Einstein: Time does not flow

Are time and clocks the same in relativity?
John Bell: Two Spaceships Thought Experiment

Minority Report
Einstein: 4 Reasons Why the Twin Paradox Isn't a Real Paradox

Is time travel possible?
David Lewis: Defining Time Travel

Does artificial intelligence think?
John Searle: The Chinese Room Argument

Hello, reason
Feyerabend: Extreme Anti-Science (feat.
Hanson, Kuhn, logical positivism, Popper)

Science Wars
Alan Sokal: Intellectual Fraud

The Man Who Saw God in Infinity
Cantor: What is infinity? (feat.
Hilbert, Kant)

The planet of the sun and the members of Girls' Generation
Frege: Definition of Number

Math War Three-Way Battle
Fundamentals of Mathematics (feat.
Logicalism, intuitionism, formalism,
Frege, Russell, Brouwer, Hilbert, Gödel)

Gödelian, so Gödelian
Gödel: Incompleteness Theorem

AlphaGo's creator
Turing Machine: How Does Artificial Intelligence Think? (feat.
Gödel, Hilbert)

Yabawi philosophy
Stephen Selving: The Monty Hall Problem

Stop sleeping and wake up
Sleeping Beauty's Problem (feat.
Lewis, Elgar, Bostrom)

Epilogue_Concluding a happy journey to Philosophy Village

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