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  • Raelians
    1
  • Rain Man
    1
  • Ramón y Cajal, Santiago
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
  • rational psychology
    1
  • Rawls, John
    1
    ,
    2
  • Ray, John
    1
  • reason
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    • brain’s seat of
      1
    • logic and, distinction between
      1
  • Reeve, Christopher
    1
  • relativity, theory of
    1
  • reproductive medicine
    1
  • Republic
    (Plato)
    1
  • right and left perception
    1
    Rizzolatti, Giacomo
    2
    ,
    3
  • Robinson Crusoe
    1
    ,
    2
  • Roman Catholic Church
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Rorty, Richard
    1
  • ‘Rosalie’
    1
    ,
    2
  • Roth, Gerhard
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    • birth of
      1
  • Russell, Bertrand
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
  • Sacks, Oliver
    1
    ,
    2
  • Sade, Marquis de
    1
  • St Augustine
    1
  • Sartre, Jean-Paul
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    • death of
      1
  • savants
    1
  • Schelsky, Helmut
    1
  • Schopenhauer, Arthur
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    • early life of
      1
  • Searle, John Rogers
    1
  • Seeing Voices
    (Sacks)
    1
  • self
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    • animals and
      1
    • developing sense of
      1
      ,
      2
    • subconscious,
      see main entry
    • see also
      brain; consciousness; feelings; mind
  • Seligman, Martin
    1
  • Selkirk, Alexander
    1
  • serotonin
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    ,
    8
  • Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
    1
  • Shaw, George Bernard
    1
  • Sheehan, Maureen
    1
  • Sherrington, Charles Scott
    1
    ,
    2
  • Sibley, Charles
    1
  • Sils Maria
    1
  • Simmel, Georg
    1
  • Simons, Daniel
    1
  • Simulacron Three
    1
  • Sinatra, Frank
    1
  • Singer, Peter
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    ,
    8
  • Smith, Adam
    1
  • Social Contract, The
    (Rousseau)
    1
  • social Darwinism
    1
  • Socrates
    1
    ,
    2
  • Spencer, Herbert
    1
  • Spinoza, Baruch
    1
  • Spock, Mr
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Sraffa, Piero
    1
  • Star Diaries
    1
  • Star Trek
    1
  • Starr, Ringo
    1
  • stem cells
    1
    ,
    2
    ;
    see also
    cloning
  • subconscious mind
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ;
    see also
    psyche
    • id
      corresponds to
      1
    • Schopenhauer’s view of
      1
    • see also
      Freud; psyche
  • superego
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • synapses in
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Theory of Colors
    (Goethe)
    1
  • Theory of Justice, A
    (Rawls)
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Theory of Moral Sentiments
    (Smith)
    1
  • Thirty Years War
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Thomson, Judith Jarvis
    1
    ,
    2
  • Tolstoy, Leo
    1
  • Toshisada Nishida
    1
  • Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
    (Wittgenstein)
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
  • transcendental idealism
    1
  • Treatise on Human Nature, A
    (Hume)
    1
  • ‘Treatise on the World’ (Descartes)
    1
  • Truman, Harry S.
    1
  • ‘On Truth and Falsehood in an Extramoral Sense’ (Nietzsche)
    1
    ,
    2
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
    1
  • Übermensch
    1
    ,
    2
  • Ulm
    1
  • unconscious mind, see subconscious
  • Universal Natural History
    … (Kant)
    1
  • utilitarianism
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    ;
    see also
    morality
  • Vanuatu
    1
    ,
    2
  • Varela, Francisco
    1
    ,
    2
  • Vichy government
    1
  • Vienna Circle
    1
    ,
    2
  • Vienna Psychoanalytical Society
    1
  • Vietnam
    1
    ,
    2
  • Virchow, Rudolf
    1
  • Vorilhon, Claude
    1
  • Wachowski, Andy
    1
    ,
    2
  • Wachowski, Larry
    1
    ,
    2
  • Wagner, Cosima
    1
  • Wagner, Richard
    1
  • Wallace, Douglas
    1
  • Washoe (chimp)
    1
  • Weiss, Robert
    1
  • Wernicke, Carl
    1
  • whales
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • White, Lyn
    1
  • White, Robert
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Whitehead, Alfred North
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Why God Won’t Go Away
    (Newberg)
    1
  • will
    1
    ,
    2
  • William I
    1
  • William II
    1
  • Wiltshire, Stephen
    1
  • Wise, Steven
    1
  • Wittgenstein, Karl
    1
  • Wittgenstein, Ludwig
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ;
    see also Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
  • Wittgenstein, Margarete
    1
  • World as Will and Representation, The
    (Schopenhauer)
    1
  • World Values Survey
    1
  • World War I
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
  • World War II
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • Wren, Christopher
    1
  • Wundt, Wilhelm
    1
  • Zavos, Panayiotis
    1

Richard David Precht
was born in 1964, studied philosophy, history of art and German language and literature. He has been writing as a journalist on cultural, media, philosophical and ethical topics for the
Frankfurter, Allgemeine Zeitung, Die Zeit
and
Literaturen
since 1995. He lives as a philosopher, journalist and author in Luxembourg.

 

Shelley Frisch,
who holds a doctorate in German literature from Princeton University, is author of
The Lure of the Linguistic
and translator of numerous books from German, including biographies of Nietzsche, Einstein, and Kafka, for which she was awarded the 2007 Modern Language Association Translation Prize for a Scholarly Study of Literature. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

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This translation first published in the US by Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York

First published in the UK by Constable, an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd, 2011

Wer bin ich, und wenn ja, wie viele?
by Richard David Precht © 2007 by
Wilhelm
Goldmann Verlag, a division of Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH, München, Germany.
Translated by Shelley Frisch

The right of Richard David Precht to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and
Patents
Act 1988

All rights reserved. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

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