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Loading... The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers (1926)by Will Durant, Ariel Durant (Author)
  
No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) KKBucher | Feb 13, 2024 |  ) harishwriter | Oct 12, 2023 | Plato,Aristotle ,Francis Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Immanuel Kant, Schopenhauer ,Herbert Spencer,Freidrich Nietzsche, Contemporary European, Contemporary American iwb | May 18, 2023 |  ) Alvaritogn | Jul 1, 2022 | ) soylentgreen23 | Aug 9, 2021 |
 To sum up, then, Dr. Durant's book deserves a wide reading, but it lacks the continuity, the historical scope that a history of philosophy must have. As an appetizer, The Story of Philosophy should be unstintingly recommended, but twenty-five hundred years of thought cannot be popularized in such small compass; and the danger is that the majority of readers will think that they have now traversed the vast field of speculative thought since antiquity.  Not being intended as a contribution to original scholarship, but rather as a work of art, the book deserves something better than a meticulous picking of flaws which are half the time mere differences of interpretation and emphasis. Dr. Durant reaches real eloquence in the chapters of Spinoza, Bacon, Voltaire, Spencer, and Nietzsche, men for whom he feels a real enthusiasm and of whom he writes with evident gusto. If we mistake not, many readers will admire the book for these chapters alone. ContainsVan Socrates tot Bergson : hoofdfiguren uit de geschiedenis van het denken. - 3: Van Spencer tot Bergson by Will Durant Van Socrates tot Bergson : hoofdfiguren uit de geschiedenis van het denken. - 1: Van Plato tot Bacon by Will Durant Distinctions
A brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the great philosophers--Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell, Santayana, James, and Dewey--The Story of Philosophy is one of the great books of our time. Few write for the non-specialist as well as Will Durant, and this book is a splendid example of his eminently readable scholarship. Durant's insight and wit never cease to dazzle; The Story of Philosophy is a key book for any reader who wishes to survey the history and development of philosophical ideas in the Western world. No library descriptions found. |
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