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# The Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy (Penguin Reference) Paperback – December 27, 2005

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Dictionary of Philosophy, edited by Thomas Mautner. Second edition, 2005.
*by T***R on August 28, 2017*

Is (German) 'Geist' a 'mass noun'? Yes, for the world-spirit is without plural. No, for there are many languages naming it. An 'insolubile'?If we use English to translate the German, we can say 'Geist' is mind, but 'Geister' – the plural as in Kant's title on the '...Geisterseher...' or Spirits-Seer (Swedenborg) – stands for ghosts leaving (English) 'spirit' – more mental than the German equivalent.Other occurrences of 'paradox' are found in articles on antinomy ('near-synonym' to 'paradox'), on Jean-Paul Sartre ('playful paradox').What is philosophy? is itself a philosophical question, and this 'autological' quality is shared by both, philosophy and language. But philosophy is less important than its practice, doing philosophy, or philosophizing. Judged by how close a wordbook brings us to this activity Dictionary of Philosophy, edited by Thomas Mautner (second edition, 2005; formerly 'The Blackwell Dictionary of Philosophy', 1996; 'The Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy', 1997) is the most philosophical currently available. It is also still the most comprehensive single volume small format manual on the subject in English.Dictionary of Philosophy is excellent on relativism, on logic ('iff'), often on cross-language comparisons ('right'; 'apperception'), as well as on the classical languages ('predicables'; 'rhetoric'), and on semantic change over time. It includes multiple tables and figures. Let me tell you, this handy book has a wealth of epiphanic experience(s) in store, an abundance of detail and literature on 664 + xxiv pages, small print.I would situate it in humanities philosophy (cf. also: 'antihumanism') as distinguished from philosophy understood as (a) social (meta-)science. This includes a good amount of language criticism – e. g. '-ism, -ist'; 'philosophy of...'.Dictionary of Philosophy is a five star enterprise. I'd purchase a new edition – (Edwards's) Encyclopedia of Philosophy got one.Gosh, that 'perennial intellectual magnetism' (William Gerber) – of words!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very informative
*by I***E on October 22, 2024*

Helps decipher meanings of words when reading essays or books about past philosophers

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Dictionary for Philosophy
*by F***A on February 26, 2021*

I have the Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy and it is falls seriously short of what the Penguin contains. If you get one dictionary for Philosophy, I recommend the Penguin.

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