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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... sense that the development of thought was a romance as stirring as any in history. No apology is offered for the neglect of epistemology. That dismal science received its due in the chapter on Kant, where for many pages the reader was ...
... sense that the development of thought was a romance as stirring as any in history. No apology is offered for the neglect of epistemology. That dismal science received its due in the chapter on Kant, where for many pages the reader was ...
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... sense of humor, being born of perspective, bears a near kinship to philosophy; each is the soul of the other. But this appears to have displeased the pundits; nothing so hurt the book with them as its smiles. A reputation for humor is ...
... sense of humor, being born of perspective, bears a near kinship to philosophy; each is the soul of the other. But this appears to have displeased the pundits; nothing so hurt the book with them as its smiles. A reputation for humor is ...
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... sense; and many a philosophic flight has been due to the elevating power of thin air. Let us resolve, on this voyage of ours, to put in only at the ports of light, to keep out of the muddy streams of metaphysics and the “many-sounding ...
... sense; and many a philosophic flight has been due to the elevating power of thin air. Let us resolve, on this voyage of ours, to put in only at the ports of light, to keep out of the muddy streams of metaphysics and the “many-sounding ...
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... sense there was not much democracy to denounce; for of the 400,000 inhabitants of Athens 250,000 were slaves, without political rights of any kind: and of the 150,000 freemen or citizens only a small number presented themselves 4 the ...
... sense there was not much democracy to denounce; for of the 400,000 inhabitants of Athens 250,000 were slaves, without political rights of any kind: and of the 150,000 freemen or citizens only a small number presented themselves 4 the ...
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... sense, had pronounced him the wisest of the Greeks; and he had interpreted this as an approval of the agnosticism which was the starting-point of his philosophy—“One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.” Philosophy begins ...
... sense, had pronounced him the wisest of the Greeks; and he had interpreted this as an approval of the agnosticism which was the starting-point of his philosophy—“One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.” Philosophy begins ...
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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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