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Includes chapters on Plato, Aristotle, Francis Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, and Nietzsche.
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Philosophers, Philosophy, History, Biography, Philosophie, Philosophes, Philosophy, dictionaries, Philosophy, historyPeople
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), Benedetto Croce (1866-1952), Plato, George Santayana (1863-1952), Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900), Benedictus de Spinoza (1632-1677), Aristotle, Voltaire (1694-1778), Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), John Dewey (1859-1952), William James (1842-1910), Henri Bergson (1859-1941)Book Details
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"IF YOU look at a map of Europe you will observe that Greece is a skeleton-like hand stretching its crooked fingers out into the Mediterranean Sea, South of it lies the great island of Crete, from which those grasping fingers captured, in the second millennium before Christ, the beginnings of civilization and culture."
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