This reader offers a broad scope and diversity of classic and contemporary selections -- and a narrative and
format that presents difficult issues and readings in a simplified but not condescending manner. Covers the full
range of philosophical questions. Organizes readings and narrative into topical sections, each of which addresses
a particular facet of philosophical thought -- logic, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of religion,
esthetics, and social/political philosophy. Represents a wide range of philosophical styles and temperaments --
from Kant, Berkeley, Hume, and Descartes to Tolstoy, Sartre and Susan Sontag.