Description
Men and women turn to philosophy because they think it will help them to understand the meaning of life, that it give answers to certain questions all reflective people ask themselves at some time. These questions are summed up in two basic ones:
One: Why does the universe exist? (Why does something exist rather than nothing? Why the things we actually discover and not other possible things?)
Two: Why do I exist? (Do I exist for some purpose, and if so how am I to discover it?)
Karl Britton asks what the questions mean, what could count as answers, and what methods can be used to find answers. The reader finds at the end of the book that he has been introduced to some of the main topics of philosophy, treated by the modern analytic method. Examples of the topics are: the identity of the self; knowledge of one- self and other persons; theory and practice; facts and values.
