About the Book: Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
A renowned philosophers guide to the history of Western philosophy."Written
with a graceful simplicity that belies its profundity, this is a book that
reconnects philosophy with perennial questions … Kolakowskis work is exemplary
and indispensable."-John Gray, New York Review of Books Can nature make us
happy? How can we know anything? What is justice? Why is there evil in the
world? What is the source of truth? Does God exist? Can we really believe what
we see? There are questions that have intrigued the worlds great thinkers over
the ages, which still touch a chord