Lovers of Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy With Integrated Readings - Couverture souple

Kolak, Daniel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0534541461 ISBN 13 : 9780534541460

Editeur : Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc, 2000

Synopsis

This is the most exciting and comprehensive text with integrated readings for introducing students to philosophy. It presents the big picture with all the right details. The central idea is to embed the best excerpts from the most important writings of the most important philosophers into one seamless, coherent adventure story in such a way that the reader takes part in the process of discovery. Instead of reading about philosophy, readers acquire philosophical insights into themselves and the world by acquiring a knowledge of philosophical ideas presented in their original contexts. Organized both historically and topically, the book can be used either chronologically or by topics, and to facilitate this for instructors it contains two separate tables of contents. The book covers all the major philosophers from the pre-Socratics to twentieth-century philosophy with a scope wide enough to embrace all schools and traditions-from the analytic and continental to non-western. This approach enables readers to understand the connection between many different ways of looking at ourselves and the world, to obtain a broad and multi-perspectival vision of all the best that philosophy has had to offer, by building philosophical bridges across national, cultural, religious, historical, and scholarly borders.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0534541461
• ISBN 13: 9780534541460
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 592
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible