Philosophical Conversations: A Concise Historical Introduction [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. This brief and engaging introductory text treats philosophy as a dramatic and continuous story--a conversation about humankind's deepest and most persistent concerns, in which students are encouraged to participate. Tracing the exchange of ideas between history's key philosophers,Philosophical Conversations: A Concise Historical Introduction demonstrates that while constructing an argument or making a claim, one philosopher almost always has others in mind. The book addresses the fundamental questions of human life: Who are we? What can we know? How should we live? and Whatsort of reality do we inhabit? Throughout, author Norman Melchert provides a generous selection of excerpts from major philosophical works and makes them more easily understandable with his lucid explanations. Extensive cross-references highlight the organizing themes and show students howphilosophers have responded to each other's arguments.A more concise edition of Norman Melchert's The Great Conversation: A Historical Introduction to Philosophy, Fifth Edition, Philosophical Conversations is designed to be especially accessible and visually attractive to first- and second-year college students in introduction to philosophy courses.Enhanced by numerous pedagogical features, it offers:* Shorter and/or simplified presentations of much of the material* A second color that enlivens the text and makes it more visually interesting* An expanded art program featuring more than 100 photographs, illustrations, and cartoons* Classic art at the opening of each chapter* Numerous brief quotations from poets, politicians, and thinkers that underscore philosophical points and stimulate thought* Explanatory footnotes and basic study questions throughout* "Questions for Further Thought" at the end of each chapter* Key terms, boldfaced at their first appearance and collected at the end of each chapter and in a detailed glossary at the back of the book* "Sketches"--which provide glimpses of the ideas of various philosophers not already discussed in detail in the narrative--and "Profiles," which offer more in-depth looks at several thinkers, philosophical schools, and movements including Taoism, Zen, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Iris Murdoch

Philosophical Conversations: A Concise Historical Introduction, Used [Paperback]