A BRIEF HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY. How Humanity Learned to Think About Everything: From Ancient Wonder to Artificial Intelligence

by Volpe, Isaac
ISBN: 9798199755542
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Overview

What do you believe, and why?

For more than 2,600 years, human beings have asked the questions that refuse to disappear: What is real? What can we know? What is justice? How should we live? Does life have meaning? Can machines think? And what happens when societies stop examining their own assumptions?

A Brief History of Philosophy is a clear, powerful, and accessible journey through the longest conversation in human history. From the wonder of the ancient Greeks to the ethical dilemmas of artificial intelligence, this book shows how philosophy shaped civilization, politics, science, religion, morality, and the modern mind.

Meet Socrates, the gadfly of Athens who died for the examined life; Plato, who imagined reality beyond appearances; Aristotle, who built the foundations of logic and ethics; and the great architects of modern thought: Aquinas, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Arendt, and many others.

Travel beyond the Western canon into Indian, Chinese, Islamic, and African philosophy, and discover why philosophy is not an abstract luxury but a practical necessity.

This book also confronts philosophy's darker side: how great thinkers justified slavery, racism, colonialism, and political domination. It shows philosophy not as a museum of old ideas, but as a living battlefield where humanity fights over truth, power, freedom, and meaning.

Written for curious readers, students, lifelong learners, and anyone who wants to think more clearly, A Brief History of Philosophy transforms difficult ideas into an engaging story about how humanity learned to question everything.

If you have ever wondered what life means, how truth works, or why ideas change the world, this book is your invitation to begin.

Start reading today and join the oldest, boldest, most necessary conversation humanity has ever had.

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history of philosophy, philosophy for beginners, ancient philosophy, modern philosophy, Socrates Plato Aristotle, philosophy and artificial intelligence, ethics and morality, meaning of life, Western philosophy, Eastern philosophy, critical thinking, great philosophers, intellectual history, political philosophy, philosophy of science, existentialism, logic and reason, human thought

  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Volpe, Isaac
  • ISBN: 9798199755542
  • Condition: New
  • Dimensions: 9.00 x 0.24
  • Number Of Pages: 116
  • Publication Year: 2026
Language: English