In a very popular, accessible form, the famous Norwegian philosopher L. Svendsen gives his original vision of what philosophy is. The science of wisdom - this is the definition offered by the author. To philosophize is to question your understanding of yourself. After all, philosophy is not just a search for wisdom external to us, it is the inevitability of meeting one’s own ignorance, it is the need to ask yourself uncomfortable questions, to doubt everything that you know and what you are. This deeply personal aspect of philosophy runs as a guiding thread throughout the book. Based on the Western philosophical tradition, the author talks about the foundations of philosophy, the relationships between philosophy and literature, science, the currently dominant schools of analytical and continental philosophy, the past and future of philosophy, which he considers immortal...