The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

Plato, Confucius, Descartes, Wollstonecraft and Nietzsche appear in the same volume, each given a few clear pages. This fully revised second edition of The Philosophy Book moves through ethics, metaphysics, politics, knowledge and mind, showing how arguments were built and how later thinkers answered them. Concepts arrive with diagrams, quotations and short biographies, and entries are cross-referenced so a single idea can be followed across centuries. The hardcover format works as a first introduction and as something to return to when a term or a name needs checking. Useful to know: • Fully revised second edition • Thinkers from ancient Greece, China and India through to the present • Diagrams, quotations and short biographies for each concept • Cross-references linking related ideas across periods For philosophy students, teachers and self-directed learners, published by DK and stocked at Boipoka.