It is usually said that philosophers do not like to travel much. Socrates did not leave the gates of Athens and Kant only went as far as his city Königsberg, but many philosophers have always traveled or at least once went on long trips: Descartes a ...
It is usually said that philosophers do not like to travel much. Socrates did not leave the gates of Athens and Kant only went as far as his city Königsberg, but many philosophers have always traveled or at least once went on long trips: Descartes as He went from one city to another; Thomas Hobbes and John Locke traveled to all parts of Europe in political exile; Willard Ku-in traveled to more than a hundred countries and Simon de Beauvoir had a fruitful trip to China. In addition, travel is also mixed with philosophy and becomes the source of philosophers' reflections: Does meeting with strangers have an effect on our understanding of humans? Is travel a masculine concept? Should we be idealistic or realistic about maps? Is it morally right to visit endangered natural areas? How does space travel affect our understanding of our life on this small planet? In this book, Emily Thoms, professor of philosophy at the University of Drama, speaks for the first time about a field called the philosophy of travel and discusses such questions along with the reflections of philosophers such as Descartes, Locke, Bacon, and Margaret Gundish.
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