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The dream of reason ...
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The dream of reason : a history of Western philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance / Anthony Gottlieb.
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Gottlieb, Anthony.
New York : W.W. Norton, 2000.
Subjects
Philosophy -- History.
ISBN:
0393049515
9780393049510
Description:
ix, 468 p. ; 24 cm.
Edition:
1st American ed.
Contents:
The archetypes : the Milesians -- The harmony of the world : the Pythagoreans -- The man who searched for himself : Heraclitus -- The truth about nothing : Parmenides -- The ways of paradox : Zeno -- Love and strife : Empedocles -- Mind and matter : Anaxagoras -- He who laughs last : Democritus -- Opening Pandora's box : the Sophists -- Philosophy's martyr : Socrates and the Socratics -- The republic of reason : Plato -- The master of those who know : Aristotle -- Three roads to tranquillity : Epicureans, Stoics, and Sceptics -- The haven of piety : from late antiquity to the Renaissance.
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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 physics of Stephen Hawking and the romantic novels of Barbara Cartland," through the celebrated days of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, up to Renaissance visionaries like Erasmus and Bacon, "philosophy" emerges here as a phenomenon unconfined by any one discipline. Indeed, as Gottlieb explains, its most revolutionary breakthroughs in the natural and social sciences have repeatedly been co-opted by other branches of knowledge, leading to the illusion that philosophers never make any progress.
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