The Deepest Human Life: An Introduction to Philosophy for Everyone

by Scott Samuelson

Book Overview

Winner of the 2015 Hiett Prize in the Humanities.

Sometimes it seems like you need a PhD just to open a book of philosophy. We leave philosophical matters to the philosophers in the same way that we leave science to scientists. Scott Samuelson thinks this is tragic, for our lives as well as for philosophy. In The Deepest Human Life he takes philosophy back from the specialists and restores it to its proper place at the center of our...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022613038X
• ISBN13: 9780226130385
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"