Life's Ultimate Questions

Life's Ultimate Questions is unique among introductory philosophy textbooks. By synthesizing three distinct approaches -- topical, historical, and worldview/conceptual systems -- it affords students a breadth and depth of perspective previously unavailable in standard introductory texts. Part One, Six Conceptual Systems, explores the philosophies naturalism, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Augustine, and Aquinas. Part Two, Important Problems in Philosophy, sheds light The Law of Noncontradiction, Possible Words, Epistemology Whatever Happened to Truth?, Epistemology A Tale of Two Systems, Epistemology Reformed Epistemology, God The Existence of God, God The Nature of God, Some Questions About Indeterminism, Ethics The Downward Path, Ethics The Upward Path, Human The Mind-Body Problem and Survival After Death