Description
Archetypes of Wisdom is designed to demonstrate to even moderately interested readers that philosophy - as both popularly and professionally conceived - is interesting and worthwhile for its own sake. To the extent that it succeeds, students discover naturally and for themselves that philosophy and philosophical questions play a role in their lives, even if they have not been aware of it.
Beginning with the Second Edition, each revision of Archetypes of Wisdom has benefited from an ongoing collaboration with readers ranging from highly specialized philosophers and philosophy teachers to students and individuals who read philosophy for pleasure and out of curiosity. In this light, the Seventh Edition of Archetypes of Wisdom sports a number of changes that will be obvious to readers familiar with earlier incarnations.
