Reprint. Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1962.
The nature of the universe --- Man's place in the universe --- What is good and what is evil? --- The nature of God --- Fate versus free will --- The soul and immortality --- Man and the state --- Man and education --- Mind and matter --- Ideas and thinking --- Some recent approaches to philosophy.
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A complete summary of the views of the most important philosophers in Western civilization. Each major field of philosophic inquiry comprises a separate chapter for greater accessibility. Includes Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Dewey, Sartre, and many others.
Traces the major movements of and contributors to philosophic thought by examining such major issues as fate, immortality, education, and society.