Gottlieb, Anthony.
Summary: Philosophy is a subject with a long history and a short memory. In this landmark new study of Western thought, Anthony Gottlieb looks afresh at the writings of the great thinkers, questions many pieces of conventional wisdom and explains his findings with unbridled brilliance and clarity. From the pre-Socratic philosophers such as Empedocles, whose account of the cosmos seems "a mixture of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2000
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Summary: Traces philosophy from the rise of Greek civilization to the emergence of logical analysis in the twentieth century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1972
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Part 4 covers the period during the 17th and 18th centuries that saw widespread questioning of religious and other traditional authorities, growing faith in science, and early responses to the budding industrial revolution. This period marks the intellectual flowering that led to the American Revolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GRESummary: The "Long Debate" on the nature of truth, the scale of real values, the life one should aspire to live, the character of justice, the sources of law, and the terms of civic and political life is encompassed by the name philosophy. Three persistent themes--understood as problems--are knowledge, conduct, and governance, on which there is a storehouse of insights, some so utterly persuasive as to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GRESolomon, Robert C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1996