Wisdom of the West. A Historical Survey of Western Philosophy in Its Social and Political

Catalog number: 083966

Publisher: Doubleday & Company

Published in (city): New York

Year of publish: 1959

Format: 21×28

Binding: tvrdi

Number of pages: 320

Language: engleski

Price: 15,00 EUR

Notes: An outstanding, popular-styled exposition of the great thinkers of the Western World (starting with the Greeks before Socrates and Plato) who are the fountainhead of all Western European (including British & American, and ultimately the whole world) philosophy - political, 'metaphysical', ethical, religious (Jewish, Christian and even Islamic). Russell demonstrates that even the bare beginnings of what became true scientific thought: theory of basic 'elements' - atoms, chemical interactions etc. is foundational in these earliest thinkers (Empedocles, Pythagoras and Democritus). Highly recommended! Wisdom of the West is a colorfully illustrated version of Russell's more scholarly History of Western Philosophy.

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