num_pages: 132
description: 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.
language: English
title: Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
titlecomplete: Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
genres: Audiobook, Metaphysics, Politics, Philosophy, Cultural, Reference, College, Theory, Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 2058
publisher: Oxford University Press, USA