Annotation Adapted from the renowned Encyclopedia of Philosophy and its Supplement, Philosophy and Ethics provides an authoritative one-stop resource on the most-studied questions in philosophy.

For introductory philosophy courses. This popular introductory text/reader on modern philosophy intersperses primary sources with commentary to keep students interested and critically engaged in what they are reading. Each chapter deals with a fundamental question about human existence, exploring the subject through representative readings by classic, modern, and contemporary philosophers--with at least two contrasting perspectives for each main position.