World philosophy : an exploration in words and images / consultant editor, David Applebaum ; general editor, Mel Thompson.

Presents the blending of words and images in introducing the ideas that have given rise to philosophy.Presents the whole range of issues with which the great philosphers of both East and West have been concerned.Explores the nature of reality and man's understanding of it

the principles that lie behind what man can know and say about art,science,religion and ethics.Probes the purpose of education ,the meaning of historyand the place of law and politics.Exmaines language,logic and the nature of mind.Seeks to to go beyond othe rintroductions to philosophy,by using a wide rang eof images to suggest the historical or cultural context of the ideas being explored,and also to give visual expression to the arguments and insights themselves ,allowing the interplay of word and image .