Socrates' Children

PeterKreeft, esteemed philosophy professor and author of over eighty books, has taught college philosophy for sixty years. Throughout those decades, he yearned for a beginners philosophy text that was clear, accessible, enjoyable, and exciting (perhaps even funny). Finding none that metthosecriteria, he eventually decided to write it himself. In this four-volume series, Kreeft delivers, with his characteristic wit and clarity, an introduction to philosophy via the hundred greatest philosophers of all time.Socrates' Childrenexamines the big ideas of four major erasancient, medieval, modern, and contemporaryand immerses the reader in the ';great conversation,' the ongoing dialogue among the great thinkers of history, including the most influential philosopher of all: Socrates, the father of Western philosophy. Volume I: Ancient Philosophersinvestigates the foundations of philosophy laid by the ancient sages, Greeks, and Romans and introduces the philosophers who asked the first great philosophical questionsaboutgood and evil;truth and falsehood; wisdom, beauty, andlove;and the self, the world, and God.