Table of Contents
Introduction: What These Essays Are For
Note on the English editionTruth and the Good: Why do we do evil?
SOCRATES
Being and Non-Being: What is real?
PARMENIDES OF ELBA
Change, Conflict and Harmony: How does the cosmos work?
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS
The Good and the Just: What is the source of truth?
PLATO
Life in Accordance with Nature: Can it make us happy?
EPICTETUS OF HIERAPOLIS
Knowledge and Belief: Can we know anything?
SEXTUS EMPIRICUS
God and Man: What is evil?
ST AUGUSTINE
God’s Necessity: Could God not exist?
ST ANSELM
Knowledge, Faith and the Soul: Is the world good?
ST THOMAS AQUINAS
What There Is: Do ideas exist?
WILLIAM OF OCKHAM
God, the World and our Minds: How can we achieve certainty?
RENE DESCARTES
The Nature of God: Do we have free will?
BENEDICT SPINOZA
God and the World: Why is there something rather than nothing?
GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ
Faith:Why should we believe?
BLAISE PASCAL
Reason, Freedom and Equality: What did God endow us with?
JOHN LOCKE
Perception and Causality: What can we know?
DAVID HUME
Reason, Necessity and Morality:How is knowledge possible?
IMMANUEL KANT
History and the Absolute:Progress without good and evil?
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL
World, Will and Sex:Should we commit suicide?
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
God and Faith:Do we need the Church?
SOREN AABYE KIERKEGAARD
The Will to Power:Is there good and evil?
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Consciousness and Evolution:What is the human spirit?
HENRI BERGSON
The Foundations of Certainty:What can we know and how can we know it?
EDMUND HUSSERL