The Foundations of Philosophy

Alex Omberg

Existentialism · Happiness · Political

Series

13

Audiobooks

About this audiobook series

What is real? What can we know? What should we do? Does God exist, and how do we make sense of evil if he does? What is consciousness? What is the meaning of life? Philosophy begins with questions like these, questions every thinking person has asked, and that the greatest minds in history have spent their lives trying to answer.

The Foundations of Philosophy series takes the deepest questions human beings have posed and presents the competing answers side by side, clearly and honestly, without requiring prior knowledge. Gateway volumes introduce philosophy as a discipline; core-question volumes each take up one perennial question and trace it across twenty-six centuries of thought; a final applied volume shows what philosophical thinking offers the questions of everyday life: friendship, work, suffering, and the art of living well.

What is real? What can we know? What should we do? Does God exist, and how do we make sense of evil if he does? What is consciousness? What is the meaning of life? Philosophy begins with questions like these, questions every thinking person has asked, and that the greatest minds in history have s...

Titles

The Arc of Western Thought: The Story of Philosophy from the Ancient Greeks Through the Medieval Synthesis and the Enlightenment to the Modern Crisis of Meaning

Thinking Like a Philosopher: How to Reason Clearly, Question Assumptions, Evaluate Arguments, and Think for Yourself Using Thought Experiments and Logic

What Makes Something Beautiful?: Philosophy's Inquiry into Art, Taste, and the Sublime, from Plato and Aristotle Through Kant's Aesthetic Judgment to the Question of Objectivity

Does God Exist?: Philosophy's Most Consequential Question, from the Classical Arguments and the Problem of Evil Through the Death of God to Faith, Reason, and Human Understanding

What Is the Meaning of Life?: Philosophy's Inquiry into Purpose, Value, and the Good Life, from Aristotle and the Stoics Through Existentialism to the Path Beyond Suffering

What Is Real?: Philosophy's Enduring Inquiry into Existence, from Plato's Forms and Aristotle's Substance Through Materialism and Idealism to the Contemporary Debates

What Is Justice?: Philosophy's Quest to Understand Fairness, Rights, and the Good Society, from Plato's Republic Through the Social Contract to Rawls and the Global Present

What Is Consciousness?: Philosophy's Deepest Inquiry into the Mind, from Ancient Meditations on the Self Through Descartes and Phenomenology to the Hard Problem and AI

What Can We Know?: Philosophy's Inquiry into Knowledge, from Socratic Ignorance and the Problem of Skepticism Through the Rationalist-Empiricist Debate to Justification and Belief

The First Question: What Philosophy Is, How It Works, and Why the Questions It Asks About Existence, Knowledge, Morality, and Meaning Are the Most Important Questions Human Beings Have Ever Posed

What Should We Do?: Philosophy's Search for the Foundations of Right Action, from Aristotle's Virtues and the Stoic Good Through Kant and Utilitarianism to Modern Ethics

The Problem of Evil: How Thinkers from Epicurus and Augustine to Hannah Arendt and Carl Jung Have Confronted Suffering, Cruelty, and the Darkness Within Human Nature

Philosophy for the Living: How the Great Thinkers Illuminate the Questions We Actually Face, from Friendship and Death to Work, Love, Happiness, and Living Well