THE GREAT PHILOSOPHERS: From Socrates to Turing (Edited by Ray Monk & Frederic Raphael)

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What is truth? What is justice? Despite some 3000 years of trying, we have never really managed to answer the central questions of what makes us tick - and perhaps for that very reason, there has never been more widespread interest in philosophy.

This essential - and beguiling - look at the subject breathes new life into the eternal questions. Twelve current philosophers each explore a particular aspect of the ideas of twelve thinkers who have helped shape our thoughts and beliefs, from Socrates to Turing. No one can believe without contradiction everything that is said in this anthology. What more salutary introduction could there be to philosophy's endless, and sometimes all too human, search for the truth, or truths?