A Passion for Wisdom
Subtitle: A Very Brief History of Philosophy
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: November 25, 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9780195112092
First sentence: IF WE LOOK back at the whole of human existence, the appearance of philosophy and philosophers seems a curious phenomenon indeed, an ethereal secretion that cannot easily be explained in terms of physiology or physical necessity.