Life's Ultimate Questions, Second Edition - by Ronald H Nash & Thor Madsen (Hardcover)

About the Book

Taking a unique approach to introducing philosophy, Life's Ultimate Questions synthesizes topical, historical, and conceptual approaches to provide students both breadth and depth of perspective. Originally written by Ronald Nash, the new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated by his former student Thor Madsen.

Book Synopsis

Life's Ultimate Questions synthesizes three distinct approaches--topical, historical, and conceptual--to help students gain breadth and depth of perspective on key philosophical concepts.

Introductions to philosophy typically focus on one of three tracts to presenting philosophical ideas: topical, historical, or conceptual. Life's Ultimate Questions takes a unique approach and synthesizes all three to ensure students gain both breadth and depth of perspective, ensuring a more engaging experience for students who may feel overwhelmed by philosophy's ultimate questions.

Now thoroughly revised and updated by Nash's former student Thor Madsen, this newest edition of Life's Ultimate Questions retains the book's multipronged approach and accessible tone. Madsen has greatly expanded the discussions on epistemology, the nature and existence of God, humanity, and ethics and added brand-new chapters on logic and pantheistic monism, along with a section on Reformed epistemology. New and improved graphics throughout further enable the book to meet the needs of today's classroom for both instructors and students.

Unique and thorough, Life's Ultimate Questions invites students to pursue the love of wisdom, in a thought-provoking and engaging text useful for formal students and lay learners alike.