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History of western philosophy

Author: Bertrand Russell
Publisher: London : Routledge, 2004.
Series: Routledge classics.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : New edView all editions and formats
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[The author's] purpose is to exhibit philosophy as an integral part of social and political life: not as the isolated speculations of remarkable individuals, but as both an effect and a cause of the character of the various communities in which different systems flourished. -Pref.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Bertrand Russell
ISBN: 0415325056 9780415325059
OCLC Number: 54975984
Description: xi, 778 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Ancient philosophy: Pre-Socratics; Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle; Ancient philosophy after Aristotle --
Catholic philosophy: Fathers; Schoolmen --
Modern philosophy: From the Renaissance to Hume; From Rousseau to the present day.
Series Title: Routledge classics.
Responsibility: Bertrand Russell.
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History Of Western Philosophy was published in 1946. A dazzlingly ambitious project, it remains unchallenged to this day as the ultimate introduction to Western philosophy.  Read more...

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