How ought we to live? What really exists? How do we know? This book introduces important themes in ethics, knowledge, and the self, via readings from Plato, Hume, Descartes, Hegel, Darwin, and Buddhist writers. It emphasizes throughout the point of doing philosophy, explains how different areas of philosophy are related, and explores the contexts in which philosophy was and is done.
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- ISBN10 0192854216
- ISBN13 9780192854216
- Publish Date 21 February 2002
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 June 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 144
- Language English