About the Book: How The World Thinks : A Global History Of Philosophy
There to fill the Sapiens-size hole in your life Observer In this
groundbreaking global overview of philosophy, Julian Baggini travels the world
to provide a wide-ranging map of human thought. One of the great unexplained
wonders of human history is that written philosophy flowered entirely separately
in China, India and Ancient Greece at more or less the same time. These early
philosophies have had a profound impact on the development of distinctive
cultures in different parts of the world. What we call philosophy in the West is
not even half the story. Julian