Proper Objects: Studies in Philosophy for All Levels

Proper Objects: Studies in Philosophy for All Levels is that much needed book. Proper Objects is for anyone who would engage in finding answers to classic questions in Philosophy and human affairs ranging from the ancient world to the postmodern.Proper Objects rewards a variety of readers, too: beginning and advanced. The person approaching Philosophy for the first time will find Proper Objects, and therefore Philosophy, remarkably accessible. The book is written with a clarity one would hope to find in a guide through the wondrous issues that, for centuries, have made Philosophy famous (or infamous) and, yes, fun. Even more, the person advanced in issues (and great texts) in Philosophy will find in Proper Objects ways to revisit themes they might wish to consider again. Unlike many textbooks, Proper Objects offers in-depth readings of many classics in Philosophy not often appreciated well: for example, Plato's Euthyphro; Aristotle's On the Soul; Epicurus' "Letters"; Plotinus' Enneads; Aquinas' "Five Ways"; Descartes' Meditations; Kant's Critique of Judgment; Schopenhauer's World as Will and Representation; Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit; and Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy, just to name a few.