It is a relevant as tonight's news, as immediate as the choices you make in a career. If you want to interact wisely with the world you live in, you need to understand the ideas that shape its commerce, launch its humanitarian efforts, trigger its wars, and profoundly impact the way you yourself approach God, life and relationships. In this book, you'll gain essential insights into more than 40 of the world's major thinkers like Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Augustine, Descartes, Locke, Marx, Freud, Wittgenstein, and others. You will also develop a working knowledge of numerous key ideas and movements, and you will learn how philosophers and religious thinkers through the ages have grappled with the critical questions influencing your life today.