This text offers an accessible introduction to the central questions of Western philosophy and how the major philosophers and philosophical movements have explored them. This book takes the reader through such questions as: what can we know for certain about the world or ourselves?; can we prove the existence of God?; how is the mind related to the body?; what does it mean to be moral or immoral?; what is justice?; and how should society be organized? Questions such as these are central to how we think about the world and form the core of philosophy. The book explains the key ideas, for example, metaphysics and existentialism, in a straightforward way. It is appropriate for someone meeting the subject for the first time, in school or college.
- ISBN10 0340643943
- ISBN13 9780340643945
- Publish Date 6 July 1995
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 April 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher John Murray Press
- Imprint John Murray Learning
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 224
- Language English