think a compelling introduction to philosophy

And if you’re doing something, you should do it well.Īfter that brief but very inspiring introduction, the book takes us on a tour of the questions mentioned above – and more, tells us what some of the thinkers through history have thought about these questions, where they might have been right and where they might have been wrong. The same applies to scientists who stop to think about what it would mean for time to be circular, for example. First, it’s going to teach you that the mere act of thinking or reflecting means you’re doing philosophy.

So, philosophy gets a lot of bad reputation. Not only that, but people tend to also think that it’s mostly useless nowadays and even if it’s not entirely like the paragraph above it should be avoided as it cannot provide us with anything useful – to put it simply, some people think that their questions about God or truth or objectivity or themselves – can only be answered by science or not answered at all. The bad thing is that people tend to think it’s too complicated to even bother to start, it should be the domain of geeks with no friends or perhaps of the bearded dudes who speak in riddles, do not care about self-appearance spend their time thinking about and talking with similar characters about what the world will be like with them dead. Philosophy deals with these kinds of big questions that give us plenty of food for thought and can go ever so deep. If we exist – do we have free will? What are the arguments for God and what are the criticisms of those arguments? How do we know what is really true? What is just? What is knowledge? You might have wondered how we know other people are just like us and not zombies. You might have wondered how we know we exist, how we know we’re not in a simulation if our mind is separate from our body, separate from our soul. If you have the desire to know, this is a book for you. „ Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy“ is a book for people who are at least on some level aware that there are great mysteries and big questions about various topics and wish to move at least a bit beyond that awareness. The title of this book is very appropriate. In fact, it is so good that this will be a second post about it. If you have read almost any blog post here that deals with any philosophy, like Pascal’s wager, cosmological argument or ontological argument, you had a chance to notice that in each of those posts, I recommended this book.

And this time it’s a very dear book, as it’s one of the first books, if not THE first I read on philosophy.

Think a compelling introduction to philosophy