Philosophy for beginners
Richard Osborne (Author), Ralph Edney
Why does philosophy give some people a headache, others a real buzz, and yet others a feeling that it is subversive and dangerous? Why do a lot of people think philosophy is totally irrelevant? What is philosophy anyway? The ABCs of philosophy - easy to understand but never simplistic. Beginning with basic questions posed by the ancient Greeks - "What is the world made of?" "What is man?" "What is knowledge?" "What is good and evil?"--This guide traces the development of these questions as the key to understanding how western philosophy developed over the last 2,500 years
Print Book, English, 1992
Writers and Readers Publishing, Incorporated, New York, 1992
Graphic nonfiction
184 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm
9780863161575, 086316157X
27453887
What is philosophy?
Greece
Rome
Early Christianity
Medieval religious philosophy
The Renaissance
Reformation and Counter Reformation
Enlightenment
Idealism
Romantic reaction
Materialism
Sui generis
Utilitarianism
Positivism
Eclecticism
American philosophy
The irrational
Logic
Language
Phenomenology and existentialism
Marxists
Linguistics, semiology, structuralism