The riddle of the sphinx
Subtitle: thoughts about the human enigma
By: Jay G. Williams.
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Lanham [Md.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
Subjects: Human beings.
Description: Through a series of 144 short texts on twelve key subjects, this text introduces the reader to some of the central perplexities of human life. Along with those texts written by the author himself are selections from such sources as Genesis and Lao Tzu, Plato and the Upanishads, Hume and Wittgenstein, Augustine and Ecclesiastes, to name but a few. Topics range from the nature of language to pleasure and pain to life after death. Most of the classical questions of the philosophy of religion are introduced.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.