A Brief Presentation of Philosophy and Its History - 9783031725326

A Brief Presentation of Philosophy and Its HistoryTwo Basic Questions\nAuthor(s): Ulrich Steinvorth\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Palgrave Macmillan\nISBN-13: 9783031725326, 978-3031725326\nSynopsis\nThis book presents philosophy as a historical series of answers to two questions: the meaningquestion (what does it all mean?)and the realityquestion (what is real rather than illusory?).Presenting philosophy as a historical series of answers to these two questions gives a new view of philosophy. It reveals a coherence between the disparate problems of philosophy which is not apparent when philosophy is approached in a systematic and timeless manner.\n\nOn the basis of this historical approach, the book argues that philosophy was initially concerned primarily with the nature of reality but changed its focus when science was established as a separate discipline in the 17th century. Philosophys main concern is now the meaning ques.