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The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

Will Durant

Paperback | Pages: 704 pages

Rating: 4.12 | 13120 Users | 858 Reviews

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Original Title:	The Story of Philosophy
ISBN:	0671739166 (ISBN13: 9780671739164)
Edition Language:	English

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A brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the great philosophers—Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell, Santayana, James, and Dewey—The Story of Philosophy is one of the great books of our time. Few write for the non-specialist as well as Will Durant, and this book is a splendid example of his eminently readable scholarship. Durant’s insight and wit never cease to dazzle; The Story of Philosophy is a key book for any reader who wishes to survey the history and development of philosophical ideas in the Western world.

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Title	:	The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
Author	:	Will Durant
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 704 pages
Published	:	January 1st 1991 by Pocket Books (first published 1926)
Categories	:	Philosophy. Nonfiction. History

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As a total philosophy novice, this book served as a great introduction lucidly written, a gripping kaleidoscopic look at the lives of some of the great thinkers of our time, and largely accessible apart from the (unavoidable) strays into abstruse philosophy talk. To me, philosophy is most appealing when applied to the political, social or personal realm; its the metaphysical part that I struggle to get my head around. The most interesting sections in this book were those that dealt with the

Everyone is a philosopher in some capacity. We all have some belief as how the world works, how we should live and what we should live for. Some of us acquire it from parents or elders or other role-models or even movies. Some take it from religion. It's easy really, because it is passive mostly. But for others things start to lose sense. All the certainties they had in their youth start crumbling away. Or maybe they never were truly comfortable with the world they were living in. It is these

Subtle and finely written. It leads the way to the spiritual awakening! a must-read for anyone who shares a deep interest in non-fiction and philosophy, in particular.

One of the best books I have ever read. It's a must read for people who want to start reading philosophy. The language is very good and the writing is passionate. It gives two things to the beginner which in my opinion are very important : the life and background of the philosopher which led him to come up with that particular philosophy and also the limitations and fallacies of every philosophical outlook, which cautions the reader when he decides to start reading any major philosophical book.

This was a long postponed book as I always thought it would be a long and trudging read, hard to comprehend and harder to remember afterwards. But Durant's treatment of the philosophers and their ideas as organic evolutions of their character and their times was what made the book a joy to read.The ideas and the long dead philosophers come alive magnificently in these pages and Durant even manages to fill one with the thirst to go ahead and read all these works that are compressed and presented

In August of 1982 I was invited down to Tampa-St. Pete with my girlfriend to visit her paternal grandmother. We stayed in a trailer court with a pool during a week of hot and muggy weather. With no car, the only activities available to us were walks to the mall or sitting by the pool. For me, this being my first trip to Florida, the high points were the many varieties of reptiles: turtles in the drainage ditch behind the house and magical little lizards darting about everywhere.School was to

I bought it purely by chance. There was a bookstore in baroda which kept my usual staple diet of thrillers etc. so as usual i went to buy my Ludlum and Forsyth. While browsing i saw it and was impressed by names most of which were unknown to me. So i bought it. And i didn't make a mistake. It is a very good book for the uninitiated. written in a clear concise form anybody can appreciate it. Gives a brief background of the philosopher and his times and then dvelves into his philosophy. It left me