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    Just Thinking About Philosophy: An Introduction to the Great Philosophers
    Just Thinking About Philosophy: An Introduction to the Great Philosophers
    Just Thinking About Philosophy: An Introduction to the Great Philosophers
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    Just Thinking About Philosophy: An Introduction to the Great Philosophers

    By Shell Abegglen

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    Washed up on warm beaches around the world is a creature called the Bluebottle Jellyfish, or Man O' War, a small harmless looking mass of blue jelly with a rather painful stinging response to human touch and curiosity. Having been warned about the Bluebottle Jellyfish, I have stayed away from it. However, I have ignored the warnings about the stinging response to the human mind from the jelly mass of philosophers and how their philosophical ideas will befuddle your thinking. Eventually my curiosity overcame my reluctance to go near it, and now after considerable study, I have put together a succinctly canned overall historical look at philosophy and the lives of the great philosophers. It is written as an introduction to philosophy, as opposed to being hit upside the head with a plethora of complex books on comprehensive philosophical knowledge designed for a much longer period of study. Therefore this introduction to Philosophy is a fun quick intellectual look for those who have been stung with a mild curiosity for this subject, but neither has the time nor the inclination to get deeply involved in the many complicated avenues of the esoteric discipline of philosophy.
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    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateMar 31, 2016
    ISBN9781524600822
    Just Thinking About Philosophy: An Introduction to the Great Philosophers
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    Shell Abegglen

    The author was born and raised in a rural area of North Eastern Utah on a dairy farm. His early years were naturally oriented in the philosophies of the prevailing religious community. However, after five years of college, a stint in the US Army, eleven years as a professional petroleum geologist, twenty years as a public school teacher, and five years as a geology instructor at a small university in an adult education program, he feels confident that he is neither naive nor worldly in his thinking. Philosophy has piqued his interest from time to time ever since he took a philosophy class in college to fill a humanities requirement. Now, after authoring two books on religion, he has decided to try his hand at trimming down the thoughts of the world's greatest thinkers to a level where ordinary people can at least have a taste of what those great minds were thinking. His goal is to see interested readers find enjoyment, new knowledge, and a good, healthy taste of provocative thinking through the discipline of philosophy.

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