Story of PhilosophySimon and Schuster, 24/07/2012 - 432 من الصفحات This brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the world's great philosophers—Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell, Santayana, James, and Dewey—is "a delight" (The New York Times) and remains one of the most important books of our time. Will Durant chronicles the ideas of the great thinkers, the economic and intellectual environments which influenced them, and the personal traits and adventures out of which each philosophy grew. Durant’s insight and wit never cease to dazzle; The Story of Philosophy is an essential book for anyone who wishes to understand the history and development of philosophical ideas in the Western world. |
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الصفحة xiv
... superstitions recaptured the ground they had lost. The common man found himself forced to choose between a scientific priesthood mumbling unintelligible pessimism, and a theological priesthood mumbling incredible xiv the story of ...
... superstitions recaptured the ground they had lost. The common man found himself forced to choose between a scientific priesthood mumbling unintelligible pessimism, and a theological priesthood mumbling incredible xiv the story of ...
الصفحة xxvi
... common sense; and many a philosophic flight has been due to the elevating power of thin air. Let us resolve, on this voyage of ours, to put in only at the ports of light, to keep out of the muddy streams of metaphysics and the “many ...
... common sense; and many a philosophic flight has been due to the elevating power of thin air. Let us resolve, on this voyage of ours, to put in only at the ports of light, to keep out of the muddy streams of metaphysics and the “many ...
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... common good—that is the problem of political philosophy. VI. The Psychological Problem But behind these political problems lies the nature of man; to understand politics, we must, unfortunately, understand psychology. “Like man, like ...
... common good—that is the problem of political philosophy. VI. The Psychological Problem But behind these political problems lies the nature of man; to understand politics, we must, unfortunately, understand psychology. “Like man, like ...
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... common meals and live together, like soldiers in a camp. Gold and silver we will tell them that they have from God; the diviner metal is within them, and they have therefore no need of that earthly dross which passes under the name of ...
... common meals and live together, like soldiers in a camp. Gold and silver we will tell them that they have from God; the diviner metal is within them, and they have therefore no need of that earthly dross which passes under the name of ...
الصفحة 45
... common,” as Pythagoras used to say (Laws 807). So the authority of the guardians will be sterilized, and their power made poisonless; their sole reward will be honor and the sense of service to the group. And they will be such men as ...
... common,” as Pythagoras used to say (Laws 807). So the authority of the guardians will be sterilized, and their power made poisonless; their sole reward will be honor and the sense of service to the group. And they will be such men as ...
المحتوى
The Treatise on Religion and the State | 208 |
The Ethics | 216 |
chapter 5 | 257 |
Letters on the English | 267 |
The Encyclopedia and the Philosophic | 298 |
chapter 6 | 329 |
On Politics and Eternal Peace | 366 |
A Note on Hegel | 379 |
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The Work of Aristotle | 68 |
The Foundation of Logic | 74 |
The Organization of Science | 80 |
Aristotle as a Naturalist | 83 |
The Foundation of Biology | 85 |
Metaphysics and the Nature of God | 89 |
Psychology and the Nature of Art | 92 |
Ethics and the Nature of Happiness | 96 |
Politics | 102 |
Later Life and Death | 120 |
The Political Career of Francis Bacon | 134 |
The Essays | 140 |
The Great Reconstruction | 151 |
Criticism | 176 |
Epilogue | 183 |
chapter 7 | 389 |
The World as Idea | 399 |
The World as Evil | 419 |
The Wisdom of Life | 430 |
The Wisdom of Death | 443 |
chapter 8 | 457 |
First Principles | 473 |
The Evolution of Life | 482 |
The Evolution of Society | 489 |
chapter 9 | 522 |
HeroMorality | 545 |
Finale | 581 |
chapter 11 | 635 |
John Dewey | 678 |
Conclusion | 691 |
Index | 697 |
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action animals appear Aristotle asked Bacon become begin believe better body called cause comes common death desire determined doubt equal eternal Ethics Europe existence experience faith feeling followed force France give given greatest Greek hand happiness hope human ideas individual intellect Kant king knowledge later laws learned less light live logic material matter means merely metaphysics mind moral nature never objects once organism pass passion peace perhaps philosophy Plato pleasure political principle reality reason religion remains rule Schopenhauer sensations sense social society Socrates soul species Spinoza theory things thought tion true truth turn understanding universal virtue Voltaire whole wisdom writes wrote young youth