Voices of Wisdom: A Multicultural Philosophy Reader
by Gary E. Kessler
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Author: Gary E. KesslerEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-02-21
ISBN: 0495007102
Number of pages: 550
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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Book Review: Lots of quality excerpts
Summary: 5 Stars
What a cool book! Used often as a required textbook for Philosophy 101 classes, this is a valuable reference for a lifetime. Most of the book is multi-page excerpts from some of the great thinkers in human history. Plato, Laozi, James, Martin Luther King, Engels, Nietzsche, Dalai Lama, Richard Dawkins, Kuhn, on and on. It's neatly organized into twelve chapters; within each there are about six excerpts from different books with an insightful introduction and reading questions. Chapters include Is There a god? Is Knowledge Possible? What Am I? and other non-trival questions.
Reading this comprehensive anthology gives a broad literate education without the months (years?) it would take to read through all the original texts, if you could somehow know what they'd be. A worthwhile reference and a jumping off point into some classic books of human thought.
Summary of Voices of Wisdom: A Multicultural Philosophy Reader
First published in 1992 this anthology quickly became the standard for multicultural introductions to philosophy. Composed of a group of culturally diverse readings addressing a selection of seminal philosophical questions in ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics, VOICES OF WISDOM introduces students to the traditional terrain of philosophy as developed in the European tradition, yet in a manner that embraces significant philosophical insights borne out of different cultural legacies.General Books
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