Philosophy, 9780198861775
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Explore life’s biggest questions: knowledge, ethics, and the self.

Philosophy

a very short introduction

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  • Paperback

    160 pages

  • Release Date

    7 October 2020

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Summary

Unlocking the Universe: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy

How ought we to live? What really exists? How do we know? This Very Short Introduction discusses some of the key questions philosophy engages with.

Edward Craig explores important themes in ethics, and the nature of knowledge and the self, through readings from Plato, Hume, Descartes, Hegel, Darwin, and Buddhist writers. Throughout, he emphasizes why we do philosophy, explains how different areas of philosophy a…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780198861775
ISBN-10:019886177X
Series:Very Short Introductions
Author:Edward Craig
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Imprint:Oxford University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:160
Edition:2nd
Release Date:7 October 2020
Weight:130g
Dimensions:175mm x 118mm x 9mm
About The Author

Edward Craig

Edward Craig is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University, and Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. He is the author of several books, including Knowledge and the State of Nature (OUP, 1991), and The Mind of God and the Works of Man, (OUP, 1996). He was General Editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy until 2011.

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