Does a falling leaf make a sound if no one is around to hear it? Are the limits of your language the same as the limits of your world? Is a life unexamined worth living? By greatly highlighting these and other questions, this book explains how philosophy began, and reveals the philosophers and philosophical movements that applied them in ways both ingenious and wonderful. This includes: short biographies of all the great philosophers, from the ancient Greeks to Nietzsche and Chomsky. You will find philosophical theories from Stoicism to Hedonism; and from Communism to Capitalism. And you will find all the jokes, quotes, and assumptions you need to sound well-read at dinner parties. To purchase the e-version, Jarir Reader