In dit boekje wordt een vergelijking gemaakt tussen stervensbegeleiding in Tibet, in de moderne westerse cultuur en begeleiding door hedendaagse boeddhisten in het westen.

This is a book about the big questions in life: knowledge, consciousness, fate, God, truth, goodness, justice. It is for anyone who believes there are big questions out there, but does not know how to approach them. Think sets out to explain what they are and why they are important.

Simon Blackburn begins by putting forward a convincing case for the study of philosophy and goes on to give the reader a sense of how the great historical figures such as Descartes, Hume, Kant, and Wittgenstein ha...