An intelligent person's guide to philosophy

In a personal view of the subject, critic and thinker Roger Scruton focuses on the ideas and arguments that have attracted him to philosophy, showing how philosophy is relevant not just to intellectual questions, but to life in the modern world.Although Scruton does refer to the great philosophers, particularly to Kant and Wittgenstein who greatly influenced him, he does not attempt to give a comprehensive guide to their arguments.

Instead he aims to bring philosophy to life.