The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

by Douglas Burnham, Marcus Weeks, John Marenbon, Will Buckingham, Peter J. King, Clive Hill

352 pages· 2011· ISBN 9780756668617
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The Philosophy Book explains more than one hundred of the greatest ideas in philosophy through clear, succinct text and easy-to-follow graphics.


Using straightforward graphics and artworks, as well as thoroughly accessible text that elucidates more than two thousand years of philosophical thought, The Philosophy Book makes abstract concepts concrete.


From moral ethics to the philosophies of religions, The Philosophy Book sheds a light on the famous ideas and thinkers from the ancient world through the present day. Including theories from Pythagoras to Voltaire and Mary Wollstonecraft to Noam Chomsky, The Philosophy Book offers anyone with an interest in philosophy an essential resource to the great philosophers and the views that have shaped our society.

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