23 Questions from Great Philosophers

1. the good: Why do we do evil? / Socrates

2. Being and non-being: What is real? / Parmenides of Elea

3. Change, conflict and harmony: How does the cosmos work? /
Hera****us of Ephesus

4. The good and the just: What is the source of truth? / Plato

5. Life in accordance with nature: Can it make us happy? / Epictetus
of Hierapolis

6. Knowledge and belief: Can we know anything? / ***tus Empiricus

7. God and man: What is evil? / St. Augustine

8. God's necessity: Could God not exist? / St. Anselm

9. Knowledge, faith and the soul: Is the world good? / St. Thomas
Aquinas

10. What there is: Do ideas exist? / William of Ockham

11. God, the world and our minds: How can we achieve certainty? / Rene
Descartes

12. The nature of God: Do we have free will? / Benedict Spinoza

13. God and the world: Why is there something rather than nothing? /
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

14. Faith: Why should we believe? / Blaise Pascal

15. Reason, freedom and equality: What did God endow us with? / John
Locke

16. Perception and causality: What can we know? / David Hume

17. Reason, necessity and morality: How is knowledge possible? /
Immanuel Kant

18. Hiostory and the absolute: Progress without good and evil? / Georg
Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

19. World, will and ***: Should we commit suicide? / Arthur
Schopenhauer

20. God and faith: Do we need the church? / Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

21. The will to power: Is there good and evil? / Friedrich Nietzsche

22. Consciousness and evolution: What is the human spirit? / Henri
Bergson

23. The foundations of certainty: What can we know and how can we know
it? / Edmund Husserl.

Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?:
23 Questions from Great Philosophers
by Leszek Kolakowski
http://www.amazon.com/There-Something-Rather-Than-Nothing/dp/0465004997/