The World's Great Philosophers provides an introduction to and overview of some of the most profound and influential thinkers in the history of philosophy.
Presents an introduction to and overview of some of the most profound and influential thinkers in the history of philosophy.
Contains 40 essays, written by an outstanding international assembly of scholars.
Provides cogent and accessible discussion of key philosophers from around the world.
Conveys the historical panorama of philosophical thought on the nature of reality, the human condition, and basic human values.
I recommend this book to teachers hoping to energize their literature
or writing classes by positioning all students as creative, ambitious
researchers capable of critiquing or even transforming worlds outside
the classroom. When I discovered it two months ago, it struck me as
just the resource I needed for revitalizing my college survey of
multicultural literature for freshman and sophomores, a course
which sometimes engaged and sometimes bored students. I have since
redesigned materials for the course, using Beach and Myers' idea that
to fully understand literature-or our own lives-we must think of individual people (whether characters in a story, authors of those stories, or
ourselves and others in the real world) as part of larger systems or
"social worlds," acting to protect and continue those systems or to
challenge and change them. The book clearly delineates the components
of social worlds and is full of sample activities and assignments; with
these, I have revised my own discussion questions,presentation assignments and writing prompts. I have also shown Chapter 8, "School and Sports Worlds," to several high school teachers who now plan to assign the ethnographic inquiry projects outlined there rather than assigning traditional research papers. This is a practical, accessible, entirely useable book.
This collection of funny sayings from around the world - covering subjects from pessimism and money to happiness, drink and getting old - is an ideal gift, impulse buy or Christmas present, guaranteed to raise a laugh.
Tasleem Kousar - The Best of Both Worlds
Very simple English, but very difficult subject. People from Pakistan still arrange their children's marriages.
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