Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction Classics_Gift_Guide Shedding light on the challenges

Shedding light on the challenges of coming to terms with your past

Whether he is writing on the rise of the bookshelf as an item of furniture in the nineteenth century or on the impossibility of Googling his own name in a world lived online

and then by skateboard into the mysterious depths of a swamp both beautiful and terrifying

Ann Fessler brilliantly brings to life the voices of more than a hundred women

their corpse used as a twisted message board

Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction Classics_Gift_Guide Shedding light on the challengesHow 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 phiilosophy, explains how different areas of philosophy are related, and explores the contexts