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5.0 out of 5 stars Helpful Study Book
I found this book very helpful in guiding me through this new subject. With timelines and snippets of information. Easy to read for a dyslexic.
5.0 out of 5 stars Big Ideas Simply Explained
This series of Big Ideas books by DK is very good. So far I have purchased a number of them and found them all highly informative and easy to read. This volume on philosophy is particularly good, covering all the main philosophers and many of their ideas in a clear, simple language that is not too difficult for any one to understand, and the illustrations and pictures only add to the overall quality of the text. I have learned a lot from this book and would thoroughly recommend it to others.I hope you find my review helpful.
4.0 out of 5 stars If you want to learn a little about Philosophy get this book.
If you want to know a little bit about philosophy without your brain being overtaxed or you want to know a little bit about the great thinkers from the past this is the book for you. Easy to read and informative. A really good buy.
5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent introduction
The book is written as an introduction to the work of many philosophers, not just western ones, and gives a simple explanation of their way of thinking as well as mentioning some of their main points of view in philosophy. It makes excellent use of well presented flow diagrams and text and gives a time line for you to place these philosophers in. Although it is clearly not as in depth as the original works of many of these thinkers (who's quotes are interspersed in the text) it is clearly just an introduction to the subject, and a colourful and concise one at that!!! Excellent book.
5.0 out of 5 stars Great quality, diverse content and well summarized
Its a nice book I got for my little brother. It is well-written and the book itself is good quality. Great range of philosophers and thinkers to read about. My only issue is wish it was a bit more in-depth but i guess thats on me as the book is about simplifying great ideas.
3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting and well produced book
What a shame this book arrived slightly damaged. It’s a present so not the best start but it’s a good read! Quick overview of pretty much all the topics the birthday boy wants to learn about and it’s a touch thicker than I’d anticipated so feels like it’d be worth the price paid minus the damage.
5.0 out of 5 stars Great.
A great book with lots of easy to digest info. If you'd like to have a easy introduction to philosophy this is your book, or equally if you are a philosophy fan then its just a great book to have. Love this range, arrived really quickly too. Would buy again and recommend.
5.0 out of 5 stars Explains complex subjects in a simple way
This book is fantastic. It starts in the ancient world and comes right up to the present! It explains complicated ideas and thought in a simplified way. Anyone wanting to know more about Philosophy should start with this book.
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Fantastic synopsis and introduction of all the famous ideas in philosohy.
A great book to get a quick overview of the subject. It's really easy to read and absorb, and quickly gets to the heart of each idea. Some nice illustrations and history in there as well.It is a great book for anyone that is just starting to get interested in philosophy and doesn't want to be overwhelmed/overloaded by a lengthy densely written book.I am extremely pleased with this book, and it also makes a fantastic gift. It's a slam dunk buy!
Easy to get hooked with.
Although I can’t speak to the nature of the e-book on any device, The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained is a very entertaining introduction to various historically significant philosophical minds. It includes images as well as a light amount of biographical information which is important for gathering the context through which these people were developing their thoughts. The intention of the book is be an overview of an entire subject since its inception in ancient times, so personally I find it difficult to fault for being brief considering how much content it aims to tackle. The segregation of time from section to section is fine given, once again, what a large time-span the book seeks to cover. In addition, this book is tailored to be appealing to youths who probably aren’t yet enabled to take a formalized philosophy course so there’s little cause to make it hyper-informative of individuals or get into the weeds of specific time periods. It is not a history book after all. If someone wants to learn more about a specific philosopher’s ideas this book provides a litany of paths to go down and without a publishing like this, it’s hard to have a significant awareness of the breadth of what is out there.However, there are some things it seems like the book could benefit from. Dedicated passages describing concepts of empiricism and rationalism would be a big plus since a lot of philosophers consider themselves to be decidedly one or the other. Without defining these terms the book’s intended audience, being people who are potentially reading their first book about philosophy, might come to feel like they were in the dark if they learn these things later. As well as this a page or two dedicated to the various formations of logic-based arguments you can make would have been instructive since that is where most meaningful philosophical dialogue is derived from. One more thing that may have been worthwhile would be a page indicating the various ethical theories in brief definition and who was able to first formally publish works regarding them such as utilitarianism, feminism, Kantian ethics, etc. It also needs to detail that although science does explain many things about the universe it cannot begin to explain everything, such as life after death or the nature of “God”. This is especially relevant to any of the stoic philosophers since their conception of God was pantheistic and radically different to any sort of self-centered human looking creation that many people today are inclined to conceptualize it as.All things considered the book is highly informative and more than intriguing enough to get someone more interested in the original subject. It could use more expansive discussion of what many of the cornerstones of basic philosophy courses are. It also quite crudely brushes by conceptions of “God” and takes no time describing the basics of forming an argument. I still am giving it the highest rating just because the interest it generates overwhelms all other deficiencies in it, especially given most people don’t receive a philosophy class in high-school and in terms of daily life it’s definitely critical to be able to contemplate things on a deeper level.
World of wonders
This book is amazing!! , reader friendly vocabulary, good chunk of knowledge and flow chart of ideas are the best functions of the book and this is should be read by all age people.
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