Philosophy 101

What This Book Covers

1. Prologue
2. Chapter One - Before Thought Had a Name
3. Chapter Two - The Axial Age Awakening
4. Chapter Three - Plato’s World, Aristotle’s Rules
5. Chapter Four - Stoics, Skeptics, and Emperors
6. Chapter Five - When God Enters the Argument
7. Chapter Six - The Rebirth of the Question
8. Chapter Seven - The Enlightenment Explosion
9. Chapter Eight - New Frontiers, New Divides
10. Chapter Nine - The Age of the Abyss
11. Chapter Ten - Language Games and Meaning Maps
12. Chapter Eleven - Deconstruction and the Margins
13. Chapter Twelve - Still Thinking

Excerpt

PROLOGUE BEFORE THERE WERE books, there were questions. Before there were schools, there were stories. Before there was truth, there was awe. Philosophy didn’t begin in a classroom. It began around a fire. In the cave. Under the stars. In the trembling mind of the first human who stared into the dark and asked, “Why?” Why does the sun rise? Why do people die? Why do I feel things I don’t understand? That’s it. That’s the whole thing. Philosophy is the history of people not knowing and refusing to stop thinking about it. It’s not just about “truth.” It’s about how we search for it. And if we’re willing to break religion, politics, logic, language, and ourselves in the process. Some saw the...