Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
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How ought we live? What really exists? How do we really know?
This lively and engaging book is the ideal introduction for anyone who has ever been puzzled by what philosophy is or what it is for.
Edward Craig argues that philosophy is not an activity from another planet: learning about it is just a matter of broadening what most of us do already. He shows that philosophy is no mere intellectual pastime: thinkers such as Plato, Buddhist writers, Descartes, Hobbes, Hume, Hegel, Darwin, Mill, and de Beauvoir were responding to real needs and events—much of their work shapes our lives today, and many of their concerns are still ours.
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Short review: One of the better of the Very Short Introduction series. It has very good concept. The author looks at three questions and how Philosophy has answered them. This discussion is about half of the book and does give a good overview of the concept of how philosophy works. The last half of the book is a bit of odds and ends, but it does round out the ideas of philosophy. Certainly an introduction of this length can't do everything, but this does a good job.
My full review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/philosophy-2/
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1 primary book2 released booksThe Oxford Very Short Introductions Series is a 55-book series with 1 primary work first released in 1980 with contributions by Richard S. Newman, Hugh Bowden, and 61 others.
