Philosophy: A Student's Guide

Book Review: Philosophy: A Student's Guide by David Naugle - short introduction to Christian Philosophy, marred by organizational issues, but still useful. In a short 130 pages, Naugle walks through ‘the question ‘in light of canonical Trinitarian Theism, how do we approach...'. There is a chapter on Metaphysics, Anthropology, Ethics, Epistemology and Aesthetics. These chapters were fairly helpful at looking at a particular way to approach Philosophy as a Christian. The problem is that the book opens with three different introductions. And together these are just over a quarter of the total length of the book. The content of the introductions, especially the critical introduction (the Prolegomena), is useful, but technical. So it seems odd that in a book designed to be an introduction, you would start with some of the more technical and less immediately introductory material.

The problem is that this is an introduction to Christian Philosophy, not a Christian introduction to Philosophy. So I think the book is also mistitled.

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