by Frank Wynne (Author), Frank Wynne (Author), Andre Comte-Sponville (Author)
In twelve brilliant, concise essays, Andre Comte-Sponville introduces twelve central philosophical concepts in the terms that we all use the words, and in which philosophers from Plato and Aristotle onwards have explored them:Morality, Politics, Love, Death, Knowledge, Liberty, God, Atheism, Art, Time, Man and WisdomPreludes to Philosophy is as sparklingly written and as thought-provoking and brilliant as the same author's international bestseller, A Short Treatise on the Great Virtues.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 176
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd
Published: 22 Jul 2004
ISBN 10: 0434011185
ISBN 13: 9780434011186
Book Overview: Andre Comte-Sponville's brilliant and thought-provoking follow-up to A Short Treatise on the Great Virtues is even shorter and if anything even more ambitious; an introduction to the central concepts of philosophy, from morality to death, from liberty to wisdom.