Portada

THE STORY OF PHILOSOPHY IBD

CLASSIC WISDOM REPRINT
01 / 2022
9781950330928
Inglés

Sinopsis

The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophersáis a 1926 book byáWill Durant, in which he profiles several prominentáWestern philosophersáand their ideas, beginning witháSocratesáandáPlatoáand on througháFriedrich Nietzsche. Durant attempts to show the interconnection of their ideas and how oneáphilosopherâÇÖsáideas informed the next.There are nine chapters each focused on one philosopher, and two more chapters each containing briefer profiles of three early 20th century philosophers.The book was published in 1926, with a revised second edition released in 1933. The work was preceded by a number of pamphlets in theáLittle Blue Booksáseries of inexpensive worker education pamphlets. They proved so popular they were assembled into a single book and published in hardcover form byáSimon & Schusteráin 1926.Philosophers profiled are, in order:áPlatoá(with a section onáSocrates),áAristotle,áFrancis Bacon,áBaruch Spinozaá(with a section onáDescartes),áVoltaireá(with a section onáRousseau),áImmanuel Kantá(with a section onáHegel),áArthur Schopenhauer,áHerbert Spencer, andáFriedrich Nietzsche.The final two chapters are devoted to European and then American philosophers.áHenri Bergson,áBenedetto Croce, andáBertrand Russelláare covered in the tenth, andáGeorge Santayana,áWilliam James, andáJohn Deweyáare covered in the eleventh.

PVP
22,81€