The summary in global philosophy: a small book full of big ideas

The book The Summary of Global Philosophy is an enjoyable journey into what the best minds have reached over the past 2500 years regarding the big questions in life, and why they are still relevant to us today. The "Summary of Global Philosophy," by Johnny Thompson and translated by Ismail Kazem, covers various topics from Sun Tzu's strategy to Freud's insights, and explains why De Beauvoir believed that the motherly instinct is a myth, and why Schopenhauer was not an enjoyable companion. All these philosophical summaries will expand your mental horizons, stimulate your thinking, and explore what it means to be a human philosopher. In each summary of this book filled with big ideas, Johnny Thompson uses five hundred words to explain each philosophical idea and summarize it in simple language, with thought-provoking questions, and he uses some stories and examples drawn from contemporary life. Hoping, as he says, to bring philosophy down from its high, impregnable tower where it is limited to the elite, so that it is discussed in living rooms, cafes, or transportation, all in his desire to make people think. In this summary, Thompson will make us meet Kierkegaard, Kant, and Hume, but they will speak to us directly, in a way we can apply in our daily lives. And when we encounter terms like necessity such as: determinism, boredom, and phenomenology, he explains and frames them within a readable narrative.