The invitation of this book is to remind us all that the need for philosophy has become more necessary today, its ontological benefit greater, and its position in cultural achievements gentler and nobler. Philosophy is an extraordinary path of individual enlightenment that enables people, if they choose to follow it, to gradually unfetter themselves from the symptoms of affairs, the minor aspects of events, and the superficiality of phenomena. It urges us to engage voluntarily in contemplation of the mysteries of existence, the meanings of life, the perplexities of history, and the ambiguities of human interactions.  Walking the path of philosophical wisdom distinguishes itself from all other paths of wisdom by its insistence on the freedom of intellectual, lived, existential, subjective personal endeavor. One of the characteristics of this wisdom is that it preserves in the philosopher, or those walking the path of philosophy, the uniqueness of enjoying their emotional exploration, as it does not impose upon them perceptions of the ideological power nor does it confine them within the chains of prevailing conventions.