title: Introducing Philosophy for Everyday Life: A Practical Guide
author:  Trevor Curnow 
description: <div>Trevor Curnow is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Cumbria. He has taught philosophy for most of the last thirty years in various places including the Open University, the University of Central Lancashire and the University of Khartoum.</div>
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  THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
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  CHAPTER ONE 
   
  DO WE NEED PHILOSOPHY? 
  Before we start, you may be tempted to ask, "Well, what of it?" Is it really 
  necessary for us to bother about complicated questions of science and 
  philosophy? To such a question, two replies are possible. If what is meant is: do 
  we need to know about such things in order to go about our daily life, then the 
  answer is evidently no. But if we wish to gain a rational understanding of the 
  world in which we live, and the fundamental processes at work in nature, society 
  and our own way of thinking, then matters appear in quite a different light. 
  Strangely enough, everyone has a "philosophy." For a philosophy is a way of 
  looking at the world. We all believe we know how to distinguish right from 
  wrong, good from bad. These are, however, very complicated issues which have 
  occupied the attention of th