Het Avontuur Filosofie

by Fernando Savater

Fernando Savater [* 1947] is one of the most widely read philosophers of our time. He gained fame with international bestsellers such as 'The Good Life', 'Foundations of Ethics' and 'The Value of Education'. His most successful work also includes The Adventure Philosophy, an overview of Western philosophy that is as lively as it is instructive, based on the 25 most important thinkers in history, according to Savater. In the form of short and crystal-clear chapters about these thinkers who changed the world, philosophy is presented as an actual adventure, a story of unruly questions and impertinent answers, of personal doubts, of the vain search for certainties and of embracing uncertainties. This book makes it clear that thinking is always an individual act, that requires courage and is by no means always welcome in a world that would rather not know about anything. Savater introduces the reader to the great philosophers in an extremely accessible but also astute and always challenging way: from Plato to Wittgenstein, from Aristotle to Sartre, from Spinoza to Marx, from Hobbes to Hegel and from Aquino to Nietzsche. They all appear to have played an indispensable role in the great human adventure called philosophy. "By far the nicest introduction to philosophy there is." - El País from Hobbes to Hegel and from Aquino to Nietzsche. They all appear to have played an indispensable role in the great human adventure called philosophy. "By far the nicest introduction to philosophy there is." - El País from Hobbes to Hegel and from Aquino to Nietzsche. They all appear to have played an indispensable role in the great human adventure called philosophy. "By far the nicest introduction to philosophy there is." - El País

Genres: Philosophy

367 pages, Paperback

Published November 1, 2016

About the author

Born 21 June 1947, Savater is one of Spain's most popular living philosophers, as well as an essayist and celebrated author.

Born in San Sebastián, he was an Ethics professor at the University of the Basque Country for over a decade. Presently he is a Philosophy professor at the Complutense University of Madrid. He has won several accolades for his literary work, which covers issues as diverse as contemporary ethics, politics, cinema and literary studies. In 1990, Savater and columnist and publisher, Javier Pradera, founded the magazine, Claves de Razón Práctica

He defines himself as an agnostic, an anglophile and a defender of the Enlightenment in the Voltaire tradition.