What exists? How do we know? What are we going to do about it?
These three questions are at the heart of philosophical enquiry, an endeavour which has stretched more than two thousand years. It's multiple branches, including ethics, aesthetics, epistemology and theology, have been pondered over by many a philosopher, and this series from The Independent introduces some of these great minds.
The ideas of these wide-ranging philosophers will be examined, alongside their social and historical context. In this way their approaches to philosophy can be situated within broader historical debates and readers can better understand the motivations and inspirations behind philosophical endeavour.
This 3rd volume includes the philosophers:
•Averroes
•Niccolo Machiavelli
•Francis Bacon
