In twelve brilliant, concise essays, Andre Comte-Sponville introduces twelve central philosophical concepts in the terms that we all use the words, and in which philosophers from Plato and Aristotle onwards have explored them:Morality, Politics, Love, Death, Knowledge, Liberty, God, Atheism, Art, Time, Man and WisdomPreludes to Philosophy is as sparklingly written and as thought-provoking and brilliant as the same author's international bestseller, A Short Treatise on the Great Virtues.