Philosophy is as relevant as tonight's news, as immediate as the choice one makes in a career.
Anyone who wants to interact wisely with the world they live in needs to understand the ideas that shape its commerce, launch its humanitarian efforts, trigger its wars, and profoundly impact the way they approach God, life, and relationships. Postmodernism, Platonism, Humanism, Existentialism, Feminism, Rationalism, Fundamentalism, New Age . They're structures of thought we encounter constantly. Linda Edwards and the late William Raeper provide insights into over 40 of the world's major thinkers, like Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Descartes, Kant, Locke, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Wittgenstein, and many more. Readers will develop a working knowledge of numerous key ideas and movements.