Publication

2020 - Cambridge University Press

Language

English

Word Count

89,500 words, Guess

Page Count

358 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCB111.S43 2020

Description

"I define 'philosophy' as the attempt to explain systematically, and without relying on superhuman agency, the fundamental features of the universe and the place of human beings in it. This is not the only possible definition, but is the most revealing one for our period, in which we find the advent of 'philosophy' (or something very like it) in Greece, India, and China, and nowhere else"--

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Origins of Philosophy in Ancient Greece and Ancient IndiaCambridge University Press2020

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