The History of Philosophy

704 sidor

På English

Publicerades 11 juni 2019 av Penguin Books, Limited.

ISBN:: 978-0-241-30453-2

The first authoritative and accessible single-volume history of philosophy to cover both Western and Eastern traditions, from one of the world’s most eminent thinkers The story of philosophy is an epic tale, spanning civilizations and continents. It explores some of the most creative minds in history. But not since the long-popular classic by Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy, published in 1945, has there been a comprehensive and entertaining single-volume history of this great, intellectual, world-shaping journey.

With characteristic clarity and elegance, A. C. Grayling takes the reader from the age of the Buddha, Confucius, and Socrates through Christianity’s capture of the European mind, from the Renaissance and Enlightenment on to Mill, Nietzsche, Sartre and, finally, philosophy today. Surveying in tandem the great philosophical traditions of India, China, and the Persian-Arabic world, and astonishing in its range and accessibility, Grayling’s The History of Philosophy is destined to …

The first authoritative and accessible single-volume history of philosophy to cover both Western and Eastern traditions, from one of the world’s most eminent thinkers The story of philosophy is an epic tale, spanning civilizations and continents. It explores some of the most creative minds in history. But not since the long-popular classic by Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy, published in 1945, has there been a comprehensive and entertaining single-volume history of this great, intellectual, world-shaping journey.

With characteristic clarity and elegance, A. C. Grayling takes the reader from the age of the Buddha, Confucius, and Socrates through Christianity’s capture of the European mind, from the Renaissance and Enlightenment on to Mill, Nietzsche, Sartre and, finally, philosophy today. Surveying in tandem the great philosophical traditions of India, China, and the Persian-Arabic world, and astonishing in its range and accessibility, Grayling’s The History of Philosophy is destined to be a landmark work.

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technicat@bookwyrm.social recenserade The History of Philosophy av A. C. Grayling

impressive coverage of mostly Western philosophy but nice summary of other traditions at the end

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I don't remember when I started this massive book, I'm going to say three years, so I feel I should begin a reread, but I probably won't. Nevertheless, I remember I really liked the early history of philosophy, really Western philosophy (so you could think of this as a modern refresher of Russell's classic), slogged through the navel-gazing modern philosophy but perked up when we got to modern political philosophy starting with Rawls, which is pretty much a repetition of my experience with a philosophy minor in college. My favorite section is actually the ending chapters that quickly survey non-Western philosophy traditions, are what could be argued as such, such as from China and Africa, which the author hastens to disclaim he's not an expert in, but it's a lot more than I've seen in other histories of philosophy. Plus a primer on formal logic, which it's sad to say …

I don't remember when I started this massive book, I'm going to say three years, so I feel I should begin a reread, but I probably won't. Nevertheless, I remember I really liked the early history of philosophy, really Western philosophy (so you could think of this as a modern refresher of Russell's classic), slogged through the navel-gazing modern philosophy but perked up when we got to modern political philosophy starting with Rawls, which is pretty much a repetition of my experience with a philosophy minor in college. My favorite section is actually the ending chapters that quickly survey non-Western philosophy traditions, are what could be argued as such, such as from China and Africa, which the author hastens to disclaim he's not an expert in, but it's a lot more than I've seen in other histories of philosophy. Plus a primer on formal logic, which it's sad to say is probably introduced these days more by programming languages than schooling (I learned boolean logic in digital design courses before taking a logic course from the philosophy department and the engineering class was better). The book ends with a nicely categorized bibliography, so I guess I don't actually need to read this book again, I can go to the sources (time to break out the Rawls again).

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9 september 2022

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Philosophy, history