Introduction to Philosophy

by Gary E Kessler

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• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 1426633335
• ISBN13: 9781426633331
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Good for a beginning philosophy text book

An introduction to philosophy with western and non western philosophy starting with the ancient greeks. It starts with twentieth century philosophers Bertrand Russell and Thomas Kuhn and then goes back to the beginning with Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche, Satre and other famous philosophers such as Confucious and Buddha. It touches on most of the most famous philosophers we have heard of. There are good definitions of philosophical terms such as utilitarianism and vocabulary lists for such things as eastern philosophy in in a way that I could understand. This is a 2010 edition so at this time, its not real old. I recommend it for someone first learning to wrap their head around philolosphy for the basics, and not too much information at once. This is definitely for beginners and will be too simple for advanced philosophy students