A Brief History of Philosophy

When was it first believed in the mysteries in the daily details of life and the existence of forces behind the scenes? When did reasoning about the creation of the world first begin, and in what terms were they expressed? When did we move beyond the "facts" of nature to speculation, spirituality, "wondering"? When did these beliefs and reasoning begin to take root in the discipline the Greeks called "philosophy"? How did the countless gods and goddesses of the ancient world become one God? How much of this effort to attend to what is "beyond us" and to accept this demand for wholeness is philosophy? What and how much can we know?

Robert C. Solomon and Kathleen M. Higgins comprehensively discuss the roots and development of philosophical thought in an easy-to-understand language. Moreover, they do not act only from a Western-centered focus, as is often done, but also examine the East in the same way: They examine major religious philosophies such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, as well as early Greek, Indian and Chinese philosophers and the mythological traditions before them. ; They evaluate the history of philosophy within its broad historical and cultural contexts.

A Brief History of Philosophy, which examines the connection of philosophy with today's world by not omitting many topics such as science, colonialism, revolutions, world wars, existentialism, postmodernism, feminism, is an important work for anyone interested in philosophy with the broad perspective it offers.



Number of Pages: 398

Year of Printing: 2013


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Iletisim Publishing

Number of Pages: 398

First Printing Year: 2013

Language Turkish