An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy - Softcover

Scruton, Roger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140275169 ISBN 13: 9780140275162

Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

"Philosophy's the 'love of wisdom', can be approached in two ways: by doing it, or by studying how it has been done," so writes the eminent philosopher Roger Scruton. In this user-friendly book, he chooses to introduce philosophy by doing it. Taking the discipline beyond theory and "intellectualism," he presents it in an empirical, accessible, and practical light. The result is not a history of the field but a vivid, energetic, and personal account to guide the reader making his or her own venture into philosophy. Addressing a range of subjects from freedom, God, reality, and morality, to sex, music, and history, Scruton argues philosophy's relevance not just to intellectual questions, but to contemporary life.

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Roger Scruton is the author of a number of books, including Modern Philosophy and A Short History of Philosophy. Formerly Professor of Aesthetics at Birkbeck College, London University, and a visiting professor at Boston University, he lives in Wiltshire, England.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0140275169
• ISBN 13: 9780140275162
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 177
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