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Socrates' Children Special Edition Box Set

Socrates' Children Special Edition Box Set

An Introduction to Philosophy from the 100 Greatest Philosophers

by Peter Kreeft

Illustrated by Peter Voth

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Winner of the CMA 2024 Book Award for Design & Production (2nd Place)

Winner of the CMA 2024 Book Award for Theological & Philosophical Studies (2nd Place)

Winner of the ACP 2024 Excellence in Publishing Award for General Interest (3rd Place)

Peter Kreeft, esteemed philosophy professor and author of over eighty books, has taught college philosophy for sixty years. Throughout those decades, he yearned for a beginner's philosophy text that was clear, accessible, enjoyable, and exciting (perhaps even funny). Finding none that met those criteria, he eventually decided to write it himself.

In this special edition four-volume box set, Kreeft delivers, with his characteristic wit and clarity, an introduction to philosophy via the hundred greatest philosophers of all time. Socrates’ Children examines the big ideas of four major eras—ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary—and immerses the reader in the “great conversation,” the ongoing dialogue among the great thinkers of history, including the most influential philosopher of all: Socrates, the father of Western philosophy. 

 

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Socrates' Children Volume I: Ancient Philosophers

Publisher: Word on Fire
ISBN: 978-1-68578-008-1
Binding: Paperback
Page count: 216
Dimensions: 6 x 9
Thickness: 0.65 (in)
Language: English
Release date: Feb 27, 2023

Socrates' Children Volume II: Medieval Philosophers

Publisher: Word on Fire
ISBN: 978-1-68578-011-1
Binding: Paperback
Page count: 168
Dimensions: 6 x 9
Thickness: 0.49 (in)
Language: English
Release date: Feb 27, 2023

Socrates' Children Volume III: Modern Philosophers

Publisher: Word on Fire
ISBN: 978-1-68578-007-4
Binding: Paperback
Page count: 304
Dimensions: 6 x 9
Thickness: 0.9
Language: English
Release date: Feb 27, 2023

Socrates' Children Volume IV: Contemporary Philosophers

Publisher: Word on Fire
ISBN: 978-1-68578-008-1
Binding: Paperback
Page count: 384
Dimensions: 6 x 9
Thickness: 1.09 (in)
Language: English
Release date: Feb 27, 2023

About the Author

Peter Kreeft

Dr. Peter Kreeft is professor of philosophy at Boston College and the author of more than one hundred books. His many bestsellers cover a vast array of topics in spirituality, theology, and philosophy. They include Heaven: The Heart’s Deepest Longing, Christianity for Modern Pagans, The Mirror, the Mask, and the Masterpiece, An Ocean Full of Angels, the Socrates’ Children series, the Socrates Meets series, and the Food for the Soul series.

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Socrates' Children Volume I: Ancient Philosophers

An Introduction to Philosophy from the 100 Greatest Philosophers

by Peter Kreeft

Illustrated by Peter Voth

Volume I: Ancient Philosophers investigates the foundations of philosophy laid by the ancient sages, Greeks, and Romans and introduces the philosophers who asked the first great philosophical questions―about good and evil; truth and falsehood; wisdom, beauty, and love; and the self, the world, and God.

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Publisher: Word on Fire
ISBN: 978-1-68578-008-1
Binding: Paperback
Page count: 216
Dimensions: 6 x 9 (in)
Thickness: 0.65 (in)
Made in: United States
Language: English
Release date: Feb 27, 2023
Socrates' Children Volume I: Ancient Philosophers book cover, by Peter Kreeft, part of Socrates Children book series, philosophy book, walkthrough guide of philosophers throughout history, paperback 9781685780067

Socrates' Children Volume II: Medieval Philosophers

An Introduction to Philosophy from the 100 Greatest Philosophers

by Peter Kreeft

Illustrated by Peter Voth

Volume II: Medieval Philosophers studies the transformation of philosophy that came about due to an unprecedented figure―Jesus Christ―and considers the philosophers of the great monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as they sought to marry the Greek philosophical tradition with divine revelation.

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Publisher: Word on Fire
ISBN: 978-1-68578-011-1
Binding: Paperback
Page count: 168
Dimensions: 6 x 9 (in)
Thickness: 0.49 (in)
Made in: United States
Language: English
Release date: Feb 27, 2023
Purple book cover of Socrates' Children Volume II: Medieval Philosophers by Peter Kreeft, featuring gold ornate border and medieval philosopher illustration, part of Socrates Children book series, philosophy book, overview of philosophers throughout history, paperback 9781685780111

Socrates' Children Volume III: Modern Philosophers

An Introduction to Philosophy from the 100 Greatest Philosophers

by Peter Kreeft

Illustrated by Peter Voth

Volume III: Modern Philosophers explores a philosophical world caught up in the spirit of the Enlightenment―a time of both scientific discovery and social upheaval―and examines the philosophers who sought above all to answer the great questions of epistemology and politics: What is knowledge? How can we be certain? What is society? What is its greatest good?

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Publisher: Word on Fire
ISBN: 978-1-68578-007-4
Binding: Paperback
Page count: 304
Dimensions: 6 x 9 (in)
Thickness: 0.9
Made in: United States
Language: English
Release date: Feb 27, 2023
Cover of Socrates' Children Volume III: Modern Philosophers by Peter Kreeft, part of Socrates Children book series, philosophy book, overview of philosophers throughout history, paperback 9781685780074

Socrates' Children Volume IV: Contemporary Philosophers

An Introduction to Philosophy from the 100 Greatest Philosophers

by Peter Kreeft

Illustrated by Peter Voth

Volume IV: Contemporary Philosophers surveys the great philosophers of the last two hundred years and observes the splintering of philosophy into a wide array of philosophical enterprises. Some, unhinged from the past, rebel against the very endeavor of philosophy, but others, seeking to revitalize ancient conversations, return to and renew the deepest questions of meaning, happiness, and the human person.

More Info

Publisher: Word on Fire
ISBN: 978-1-68578-008-1
Binding: Paperback
Page count: 384
Dimensions: 6 x 9 (in)
Thickness: 1.09 (in)
Made in: United States
Language: English
Release date: Feb 27, 2023
Socrates' Children Volume IV: Contemporary Philosophers by Peter Kreeft features a blue cover with gold embossed details, part of Socrates Children book series, philosophy book, overview of philosophers throughout history, paperback 9781685780081
Elderly man with glasses, wearing a suit and white shirt, smiling gently against a dark, blurred background.

Peter Kreeft

Author of Socrates' Children Volume I: Ancient Philosophers

Dr. Peter Kreeft is professor of philosophy at Boston College and the author of more than one hundred books. His many bestsellers cover a vast array of topics in spirituality, theology, and philosophy. They include Heaven: The Heart’s Deepest Longing, Christianity for Modern Pagans, The Mirror, the Mask, and the Masterpiece, An Ocean Full of Angels, the Socrates’ Children series, the Socrates Meets series, and the Food for the Soul series.

What People are Saying

Michael Augros headshot

“When I first began to pursue philosophy, I wanted a single resource to introduce me to all its principal players, to teach me their names, relative importance, and chief works, and to help me think their greatest thoughts. I wanted an introduction that let the philosophers have their say, but at the same time avoided the false impartiality of indifference to truth—one that, moreover, went about the whole daunting business with such brevity, directness, enthusiasm, wonder, storytelling, and humor as would suit my needs as a beginner. That resource did not exist. Now it does. It is Socrates’ Children.”

—Michael Augros, author of Who Designed the Designer? and The Immortal in You

Ed Feser headshot

“The moral, social, and religious problems of our time all ultimately reflect deep philosophical errors and thus, at least in part, require a philosophical solution. Yet philosophy has in recent decades retreated so far within the academy that the average person would not know where to begin to look for instruction. Peter Kreeft has long helped to remedy this problem, and this new work may be his most important yet.”

—Edward Feser, Professor of Philosophy, Pasadena City College

Chris Kaczor

“Peter Kreeft provides bite-sized snapshots of one hundred of the most famous and influential philosophers who shape, often in unrealized ways, today’s world. In his trademark crisp and clear style, he presents ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary thinkers. While putting each philosopher in historical context, Socrates’ Children also avoids historical relativism. This book provides both historical context and philosophical summaries of the most important ideas of the most important philosophers. Kreeft focuses on the ideas that make a difference for our lives, as well as on the most influential views of all time.”

—Christopher Kaczor, Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University, St. Thomas Aquinas Fellow for the Renewal of Catholic Intellectual Life for the Word on Fire Institute

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