Socrates' Children

Peter Kreeft, 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 met those criteria, 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 III: Modern Philosophersexplores a philosophical world caught up in the spirit of the Enlightenmenta time of both scientific discovery and social upheavaland examines the philosophers who sought above all to answer the great questions of epistemology and politics: What is knowledge? How can we be certain? What is society? What is its greatest good?