- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: Sceptre (3 May 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340923881
- ISBN-13: 978-0340923887
- Product Dimensions: 20 x 13.6 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 751,196 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Full of agreeable things ... I warmly recommend it to those who doubt that philosophy has a point'
(Roger Scruton )Product Description
What is like to be another person? Why is stupidity not painful? Is it possible for a human ever to do a selfless act? Do chimpanzees really enjoy eating bananas? How can an exception ever prove a rule?
Everyone confronts philosophical issues, so why shouldn’t everyone have access to a philosopher? In this wise and witty book, forty philosophers from universities around the world answer real readers’ most difficult questions. They address dilemmas and queries on every subject, from adultery and the afterlife, to ethics and existentialism, God, sex, suicide and war. They even address the question, ‘Why can’t philosophers agree?’
This is an entertaining and jargon-free exploration of the philosophy of everyday life.
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the editor of this book (which reverses Descartes's classic aphorism) assembles a team of half-baked philosophers who try, not very successfully to give answers to our most difficult philosphical questions - at great length and not really convincingly.
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