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How the World Works: Philosophy: From the Ancient Greeks to Great Thinkers of Modern Times
Contributor(s): Rooney, Anne (Author)
ISBN: 1788883527     ISBN-13: 9781788883528
Publisher: Arcturus Editions
OUR PRICE:   $12.74  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: February 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Reference
- Education | Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects
- Philosophy | Methodology
Series: How the World Works
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.4" W x 8.9" (0.75 lbs) 208 pages
 
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Publisher Description:

'The unexamined life is not worth living.' Plato (c.427-347BC)

This book traces strands of thought in Western philosophy, from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. An accessible, fascinating account of the major preoccupations of the world's greatest thinkers, it explores the five branches of philosophy - metaphysics, epistemology, logic, ethics, and aesthetics. It includes biographies of significant figures, accounts of important texts, and definitions of key concepts such as scepticism, relativism, and empiricism.

Topics include:
- The nature of being and reality
- The existence of God
- Romanticism and existentialism
- Free will and predestination
- Ethics in daily life
- How we might make a good society

Beautifully illustrated throughout

Contributor Bio(s): Rooney, Anne: -

Adult
Anne Rooney has taught English at Cambridge and York universities and was Royal Literary Fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge University in 2014-16. She has written many books on science and technology, and was short-listed for the ALCS Educational Writers' Award in 2015.

Childrens
Anne Rooney writes on science and the history of science for children and adults. Her Dinosaur Atlas was shortlisted for the Royal Young People's Book Award 2018 and won the School Library Association Information Book Award (ages 7-12), 2018. She has been a Royal Literary Fund Fellow, most recently at Newnham College, University of Cambridge.