This compendium offers the reader an easily understandable yet highly informative introduction to the various disciplines and directions of philosophy at the highest level. Starting with the first article, which encompasses the description, distinction, and presentation of the different philosophical concepts that have developed throughout the history of philosophy, all the specially focused articles in this collection, ranging from anthropology to the philosophy of language, are drawn from the esteemed three-volume encyclopedia of philosophy edited by Hans Jörg Sandkühler in 2010, in collaboration with Dagmar Borchers, Arnim Regenbogen, Volker Schürmann, and Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer. The compendium includes the following articles: aesthetics, analytical philosophy, anthropology, epistemology, first philosophy, ethics, existential philosophy, and philosophy of history.