Introduction -- Plato and justice -- Aristotle and friendship -- Anselm and God as supreme being -- Aquinas and God as cosmic creator -- Descartes and the soul -- Hobbes and freedom -- Locke and knowledge -- Hume and causality -- Kant and duty -- Mill and happiness -- Nietzsche and meaning -- Wittgenstein and language -- Sartre and existence -- Dewey and truth.
Summary
Uses the work of key philosophers to springboard into a discussion of all the main areas of philosophy.