Story of PhilosophySimon and Schuster, 24 июл. 2012 г. - Всего страниц: 432 This brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the world's great philosophers—Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell, Santayana, James, and Dewey—is "a delight" (The New York Times) and remains one of the most important books of our time. Will Durant chronicles the ideas of the great thinkers, the economic and intellectual environments which influenced them, and the personal traits and adventures out of which each philosophy grew. Durant’s insight and wit never cease to dazzle; The Story of Philosophy is an essential book for anyone who wishes to understand the history and development of philosophical ideas in the Western world. |
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... became too great for communication, it would degenerate into scholasticism, and the weak acceptance of authority; mankind would slip into a new age of faith, worshiping at a respectful distance its new priests; and civilization, which ...
... became too great for communication, it would degenerate into scholasticism, and the weak acceptance of authority; mankind would slip into a new age of faith, worshiping at a respectful distance its new priests; and civilization, which ...
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... became popular, and historians became alarmed. Now it would be necessary for them to write as interestingly as H.G. Wells. Strange to say, two of them did. Professor Breasted, of Chicago and Egypt, revised and improved an old text-book ...
... became popular, and historians became alarmed. Now it would be necessary for them to write as interestingly as H.G. Wells. Strange to say, two of them did. Professor Breasted, of Chicago and Egypt, revised and improved an old text-book ...
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... became the fashion to praise, to buy, even, occasionally, to read, this book that had been written for a few. All in all it was such a success as no author who has known it once can ever hope to know again. Then came the flood. Outline ...
... became the fashion to praise, to buy, even, occasionally, to read, this book that had been written for a few. All in all it was such a success as no author who has known it once can ever hope to know again. Then came the flood. Outline ...
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Will Durant. the easy road to critical repute; it became the style to speak with a delicate superiority of any non-fiction book that could be understood. The snob movement in literature began. III. Many of the criticisms were disagreeably ...
Will Durant. the easy road to critical repute; it became the style to speak with a delicate superiority of any non-fiction book that could be understood. The snob movement in literature began. III. Many of the criticisms were disagreeably ...
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... became one of the greatest trading cities of the ancient world. Sparta relapsed into agricultural seclusion and stagnation, while Athens became a busy mart and port, the meeting place of many races of men and of diverse cults and ...
... became one of the greatest trading cities of the ancient world. Sparta relapsed into agricultural seclusion and stagnation, while Athens became a busy mart and port, the meeting place of many races of men and of diverse cults and ...
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The Treatise on Religion and the State | 208 |
The Ethics | 216 |
chapter 5 | 257 |
Letters on the English | 267 |
The Encyclopedia and the Philosophic | 298 |
chapter 6 | 329 |
On Politics and Eternal Peace | 366 |
A Note on Hegel | 379 |
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The Work of Aristotle | 68 |
The Foundation of Logic | 74 |
The Organization of Science | 80 |
Aristotle as a Naturalist | 83 |
The Foundation of Biology | 85 |
Metaphysics and the Nature of God | 89 |
Psychology and the Nature of Art | 92 |
Ethics and the Nature of Happiness | 96 |
Politics | 102 |
Later Life and Death | 120 |
The Political Career of Francis Bacon | 134 |
The Essays | 140 |
The Great Reconstruction | 151 |
Criticism | 176 |
Epilogue | 183 |
chapter 7 | 389 |
The World as Idea | 399 |
The World as Evil | 419 |
The Wisdom of Life | 430 |
The Wisdom of Death | 443 |
chapter 8 | 457 |
First Principles | 473 |
The Evolution of Life | 482 |
The Evolution of Society | 489 |
chapter 9 | 522 |
HeroMorality | 545 |
Finale | 581 |
chapter 11 | 635 |
John Dewey | 678 |
Conclusion | 691 |
Index | 697 |
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