Silent Legacy

This book invites you into conversation with some of the great minds that have formed history; those who have thought and dreamed great things, shaping and moulding the culture and the civilisation we have inherited. It invites you to think about truth, reality, knowledge, beauty and community and to look deeper into contemporary culture and see the imprint and impact of ideas. Silent Legacy is the story of philosophy: from ancient Greece to the contemporary West; a primer, an introduction to digging a little deeper.

As ideas permeate down from the academic ivory tower to the street, the pub and the café, we can see them begin to affect wider culture and the way we live our lives. To grapple with these giants of philosophy, politics and thought, we must be brave and unafraid, but more that that, willing "to strive, to seek, to find" and, if yielding, doing so only to conviction and truth.