Introducing Philosophy
Subtitle: A Text with Integrated Readings
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: July 17, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 768
ISBN-13: 9780195174625
First sentence: Well over three thousand years ago, philosophers in India, in the Rg Veda (the oldest of those holy books called the Vedas), contemplated the nature and origins of the whole of reality ("Brahman"), concluding, with considerable skepticism, that reality as such was not, or at least not normally, known by us, and perhaps it could not be known at all.