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Philosophy starts with questions about the nature of fact and how we should live. These were the concerns of Socrates, who put in his days in the early Athenian marketplace requesting uncomfortable questions, disconcerting individuals he met by demonstrating them how little they honestly understood. This engaging book introduces the fantastic thinkers in European philosophy and explores their most compelling ideas about the earth and how best to live in it. In forty short chapters, Nigel Warburton courses us over a chronological travel of the major ideas in the history of philosophy. He provides interesting and often quirky reports of the lives and deaths of thought-provoking philosophers from Socrates, who chose to expire by hemlock poisoning rather than live on without the liberty to think for himself, to Peter Vocalist, who asks the disquieting philosophical and moral questions that haunt our own times. Warburton not only makes philosophy accessible, he offers motivation to think, argue, reason, and have in the traditions of Socrates. A Little Record of Beliefs presents the grand sweep of humanity's search for philosophical understanding and invites all to become listed on in the talk.
