The second truth : a brief introduction to the intellectual and spiritual journey that is philosophy

This is an accessible volume that explores the different modalities of thinking from a philosophical viewpoint.

We are born into families, communities, and cultures that provide us with an initial understanding of the world through which to interpret our experience - the first truth.

Throughout history there have been many individuals, such as Copernicus, Socrates, and Jesus who have strived for a better way to conceptualize and interpret their experience - the second truth.

Eventually, civilisation inherits filtered versions of the second truth of these individuals as part of our initial understanding but such an understanding originated out of a specific form of thinking known as philosophy.