Western Philosophers And Their Philosophies (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798887721521)

People have been asking questions about the world and their position in it since the dawn of time. Religion gave solutions to early cultures' most fundamental questions: the activities of the gods explained the workings of the cosmos and provided a framework for human civilizations. However, other individuals considered conventional religious explanations unsatisfactory, and they began to seek solutions based on logic rather than convention or religion.