AN INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY
Daniel J. Sullivan The author openly acknowledges that he is writing in the Catholic Christian tradition of philosophy, which takes cognizance of and, to a degree, direction from Supernatural revelation. Nor does he see this as harmful for philosophy, but rather as good. For he shows that all philosophy comes from sometradition, and he sees the perennial philosophy of the west and Divine Revelation as meeting in the "union of the whole man." Philosophic knowledge, after all, is what man knows by reason alone (whether guided by faith or not), and reason and revelation treat the same reality, so there can be no conflict in the truth—which inheres in being itself, and which the mind of man extracts. Beginning with the dawn of philosophic awareness among the ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosophers, the author exposes the main philosophic problems and solutions that have been treated in the some 2,500 years since. The result is a book which is ideal as a college textbook for a course in the introduction to philosophy, but it is also excellent as a general overview of the subject for the general reader and as a handbook of review for the student or even the professor of philosophy. BK73350    Library-size    $16.50