Basic Teachings of the Great Philosophers by S.E. Frost
	List Price:   $13.95 Unit Price:   $11.16 You Save:   $2.79 (20%) ISBN-10:   038503007X ISBN-13:   9780385030076 Publisher:   Random House [MD]; Anchor Category:   Young Adults Pub. Date:   September 1962 Pages:   320 Format:   Paperback
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2005  Quill Awards  Winner!  2006  Original Voices Award  Nominee/Honoree  2007  Book Sense Book of the Year  Winner!  2007  Alex Awards  Winner!  2007  Great Lakes Book Awards  Winner!
Subjects
PHILOSOPHY_INTRODUCTIONS
Description/Notes
Revised Edition A complete summary of the views of the most important philosophers since the beginning of Western civilization. Each major field of philosophical inquiry is treated in a separate chapter, so that each chapter can be read as a complete unit, without reference to the others. Contents: The Nature of the Universe * Man's Place in the Universe * What Is Good and What Is Evil? * The Nature of God * Fate Versus Free Will * The Soul and Immortality * Man and the State * Man and Education * Mind and Matter * Ideas and Thinking * Some Recent Approaches to Philosophy. S. E. Frost, Jr. (1899-1978) taught in the Department of Education, Brooklyn College, City University of New York. He received a Ph.D. from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Yale University. He spent many years in the study and teaching of the history and philosophy of education and is the author of a number of books on philosophy, religion, and education. A complete summary of the views of the most important philosophers in Western civilization. Each major field of philosophic inquiry comprises a separate chapter for greater accessibility. Includes Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Dewey, Sartre, and many others.