Contents: Preface Introduction: The indestructible questions -- Part one: Plato. 1. Virtue is knowledge ; 2. Shadow and substance ; 3. The divided line ; 4. The tripartite soul ; 5. The ideal state --Part two: Descartes. 6. Historical transition to the modern world ; 7. Doubting to believe ; 8. God exists ; 9. The clockwork universe ; 10. Body and soul --Part three: Hume. 11. How do you know? ; 12. "A well-meanin' critter" ; 13. Will the sun rise tomorrow? ; 14. Reason: "Slave of the passions" --Part four: Hegel. 15. A revolution in thought ; 16. The real is the rational ; 17. Master and slave ; 18. The cunning of reason ; 19. The owl of Minerva --Part five: Marx. 20.The young Hegelian ; 21. Alienated man ; 22. The conflict of classes ; 23. The world to come --Part six: Sartre. 24. My existence is absurd ; 25. Nausea ; 26. "Condemned to be free" ; 27. No exit --
Part seven: In search: The contemporary scene in philosophy.28. In Search Glossary Index