Modern Challenges To Past Philosophy

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2014
Edition: First Edition

Description: 203 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Does philosophy have a timeless essence? Are the writings that have come down to us over the centuries from philosophers of genius mere souvenirs from a bygone era? Or are their thoughts still eminently worth examining with care?Modern Challenges to Past Philosophy argues pondering past philosophy with modern problems in mind is worth the effort, even though earlier works are uninformed by modern science and lack some of tools of modern analysis. The great texts defamiliarize our world and offer solutions to crucial questions often forgotten as we fixate on current philosophical trends.Modern Challenges is no appeal to a return to a golden past but a study designed to show how and why understanding earlier works of some of the most penetrating minds ever to ponder eternally valid questions can contribute to a renewal of our own culture.

ISBN: 9781441170637