Distilled from Donald Palmer's more than 30 years of teachingexperiences, this approachable, historically organized textexemplifies Dr. Palmer's very successful light-hearted approach toteaching introduction to philosophy. Through the use of humor,drawings, charts, and diagrams, serious philosophical topics comealive for the readers--without compromising the seriousness of thesubject matter. The text can be used as a core text or as asupplement to any reader.
本書由具有三十年教授哲學導論經驗的資深教授編寫,簡明易讀。作者以輕松幽默的方式,結合數百幅生動的插圖和圖表,深入淺出地繫統講解嚴肅的哲學話題。本書囊括了西方哲學史上的主要人物和流派,既是核心教材,也非常適合作為其他學科的補充讀物。這本教材自1988年問世以來,一直受到業內的肯定和讀者的歡迎,不斷再版。難以理解的哲學命題被唐納德·帕爾瑪教授以清晰風趣的文風及百多幅原創插圖詮釋出來,本書集唐納德·帕爾瑪數十年教授哲學導論經驗之大成,輕松、愉悅,不僅值得中國大學生學習,也值得中國大學教師的借鋻。