Life's Ultimate Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy

by Ronald H. Nash

Book Overview

A basic textbook on introduction to philosophy, Life's Ultimate Questions is from renowned teacher and communicator Ronald Nash and can be used in Christian and secular classrooms alike.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0310514924
• ISBN13: 9780310514923
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Zondervan Academic
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.4" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up

Customer Reviews

The easiest PHP book I have ever run across....

I took philosophy the first time about 30 years ago. I have taken several since, and came to the conclusion that most Ph.D.s teaching philosphy like to feel superior so they use textbooks that many incoming freshmen are soon desperating searching the internet in an attempt to find and buy something to turn in. Which brings me to this book. It was actually enjoyable to read, though I am not the student this time around--I am tutoring my husband who is trying to finish his degree. This is the fourth class that he has taken since he started taking classes at Grand Canyon University online. I really hope this book gives him the push to finish the rest of his classes--some of the other classes he took were very difficult. This book so impressed me, I intend to order a couple more books that Nash wrote Faith and Reason and also Worldviews in Conflict.

More than a philosophy textbook

Lots of people are frightened of textbooks; too difficult to understand, they think. Too dry, others suppose. "Life's Ultimate Questions" can help even the most general reader get a handle on the most important philosophers in history. The book can provide a foundation that can help even a beginner move on to dozens of important topics such as do humans have a soul? Is there life after death? How can we know if God exists? What are the most important options in ethics? How can we know that something is the case? This book is a solid and helpful piece of work.

A Portal to understanding Philosophy

This book is a new and creative Introduction to Philosophy that combines three approaches: an historical survey of 6 major philosophical systems including those of Plato, Aristotle, Augustine and Aquinas; a worldview approaches and a problems approach.