Philosophy

What can we know for certain about the world or ourselves? Can we prove the existence of God? How is the mind related to the body? What is justice? How should society be organized? This book is an introduction to the way in which these and other questions have been explored by some of the greatest minds in the history of Western thought. From Platonism to post-modernism, Anselm to Ayer, it examines the central themes in philosophy that have shaped the way in which we think about the world.