Philosophy: The Latest Answers To The Oldest Questions

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Aristotle, Plato, Kant, Wittgenstein . . . The work of the great philosophers of the past is well known and has been discussed endlessly. Philosophy: The Latest Answers to the Oldest Questions is the first book to explain, for the general reader, what today's philosophers think about what it is to be human. In the search for higher meaning, Nicholas Fearn has consulted some of the world's most distinguished thinkers, including John Searle, Martha Nussbaum, Bernard Williams and Daniel Dennett (among many others). Variously, they believe that free will and identity are not what they seem; that the difference between good and evil can be a matter of sheer luck; and that, one day, we will all be vegetarians.

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Nicholas Fearn makes philosophy both entertaining and intelligible - no small achievement! -- Roy Porter

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Nicholas Fearn, a philosophy graduate rom King's College, London, is the author of Zeno and he Tortoise: How to Think Like a Philosopher, which was published in more than twenty countries. He also writes for the Spectator, Independent on Sunday, Observer and The Economist. He lives in London.