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An edition of A history of western philosophy (1945)

A history of western philosophy

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This book offers the remarkable opportunity to examine the great traditions that have shaped western civilization from the point of view of one of the greatest of modern philosophers.

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Simon and Schuster
Language
English
Pages
895

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Subjects

Western influences, Philosophy, Political science, History, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Filosofie, Western Civilization, Histoire, Filosofia (Historia), Philosophie, Philosophy, history

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Cover of: A history of Western philosophy
A history of Western philosophy
1984, Unwin Paperbacks
in English - 2nd ed.
Cover of: A history of western philosophy
A history of western philosophy
1972, Simon and Schuster
in English

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Table of Contents

Ancient philosophy: The Pre-Socratics
Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
Ancient philosophy after Aristotle
Catholic philosophy: The fathers
The schoolmen
Modern philosophy: From the Renaissance to Hume
From Rousseau to the present day

Edition Notes

Includes index

"A Touchstone book"

Published in
New York, N.Y

Classifications

Library of Congress
B72 .R8 1945, B72 .R8

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxiii, 895 p. ;
Number of pages
895

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL18162408M
ISBN 10
0671314009, 0671201581
LCCN
45008884
OCLC/WorldCat
368394, 6275079, 4519551, 2813997
LibraryThing
46716
Goodreads
1501648
243685

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OL1088357W

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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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