The Story of Philosophy. The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers

Kataloški broj: 087943

Nakladnik: Simon & Schuster

Mjesto izdanja: New York

Godina izdanja: 1961

Format: 10,5×17

Uvez: meki

Broj stranica: 543

Jezik: engleski

Cijena: 10,00 EUR

Zabilješke: The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers is a revolutionary book by the American historian and philosopher Will Durant from 1926, which successfully brought Western philosophy closer to the general public. Instead of dry academic debates, Durant has created a dynamic chronicle that connects the personal lives of thinkers with the evolution of their ideas, showing how each philosophical era directly influenced the next. The book is structured through biographical profiles, following thinkers from Socrates and Plato all the way to Friedrich Nietzsche and modern philosophers of the early 20th century. Durant strongly opposed the confinement of philosophy to academic towers, using a clear, witty and deeply humane tone adapted to laymen. Ideas are not presented in a vacuum, but within the economic, political and personal circumstances in which they were born.

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