TY - BOOK AU - Osborne,Richard AU - Edney,Ralph TI - Philosophy for beginners T2 - Writers and Readers documentary comic book SN - . AV - B53 .O82 1992 PY - 1992/// CY - New York. PB - Writers and Readers Publishing, Incorporated. KW - Philosophy KW - Comic books, strips, etc KW - Comics (Graphic works) KW - lcgft N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-184) and index; What is philosophy? -- Greece -- Rome -- Early Christianity -- Medieval religious philosophy -- The Renaissance -- Reformation and Counter Reformation -- Enlightenment -- Idealism -- Romantic reaction -- Materialism -- Sui generis -- Utilitarianism -- Positivism -- Eclecticism -- American philosophy -- The irrational -- Logic -- Language -- Phenomenology and existentialism -- Marxists -- Linguistics, semiology, structuralism N2 - Why does philosophy give some people a headache, others a real buzz, and yet others a feeling that it is subversive and dangerous? Why do a lot of people think philosophy is totally irrelevant? What is philosophy anyway? The ABCs of philosophy - easy to understand but never simplistic. Beginning with basic questions posed by the ancient Greeks - "What is the world made of?" "What is man?" "What is knowledge?" "What is good and evil?"--This guide traces the development of these questions as the key to understanding how western philosophy developed over the last 2,500 years ER -