Philosophy In 30 Days

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Plunge straight in and try out philosophy for real in just ten minutes a day. This book may not turn you into a great philosopher in thirty days, but it will show you how to begin to think philosophically. Dominique Janicaud's shows that philosophy doesn't have to be intimidating. It can even be fun. He invites the reader to consider some of the big questions of philosophy and develop the critical, inquiring attitude which characterizes good philosophy. With a chapter a day, this is philosophy at its most accessible. Each short chapter tackles a single question such as: What is a human being? What does freewill mean? Is philosophy simply a matter of reading the famous works of the past. Do we need religion? What are good and evil? Along the way, we are introduced to some of the greatest thinkers of the past, from Plato to Nietzsche.

Dominique Janicaud, a renowned French philosopher and Heidegger specialist, taught at the University of Nice. He drowned in a tragic accident in 2002, after only just completing the book, written to introduce ehis daughter to philosophy. Simon Critchley was born in 1960 and is Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research, New York. He has held a number of visiting professorships and was until recently Directeur de Programme at the College International de Philosophie, Paris. He is author and editor of many books, including The Ethics of Deconstruction, Very Little Almost Nothing, Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction, On Humour and Things Merely Are.