书名: Philosophy And Philosophers
作者: John Shand (Author)
出版社: McGill-Queen's University Press; 1st edition (December 1, 1993)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 1857280741
ISBN-13: 978-1857280746
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Book Description
"Philosophy and philosophers" is an introduction to Western philosophy aimed directly at those who are unfamiliar with the nature of philosophy and its history. As a survey of the ideas of history's major thinkers and of the central areas of philosophy, the book should be of value as a source of reference to both student and general reader alike. Organized around the main schools of thought, and ranging from ancient Greece through the explosion of ideas in the 17th century to the Enlightenment and the challenge of 20th-century philosophy, each chapter assesses the contribution of a philosopher with particular attention paid to the key areas of the theory of knowledge, the nature of reality and the nature of philosophy itself. An extensive annotated bibliography is included which serves as an invaluable guide to works by and about the philosophers discussed.
Review
"The book is clear, astute, and rightly self-confident. It surveys all of the central and fundamental history of philosophy, but comes close enough to the great arguments and doctrines to introduce them effectively to a questioning reader. Plato, Hume, Wittgenstein, and the other makers of philosophy appear as they were, not as types of thinkers, but individual thinkers. What they believed and why is brought firmly into view." -- Ted Honderich, Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic, University College London.
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作者: John Shand (Author)
出版社: McGill-Queen's University Press; 1st edition (December 1, 1993)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 1857280741
ISBN-13: 978-1857280746
电子书格式：HTML
Book Description
"Philosophy and philosophers" is an introduction to Western philosophy aimed directly at those who are unfamiliar with the nature of philosophy and its history. As a survey of the ideas of history's major thinkers and of the central areas of philosophy, the book should be of value as a source of reference to both student and general reader alike. Organized around the main schools of thought, and ranging from ancient Greece through the explosion of ideas in the 17th century to the Enlightenment and the challenge of 20th-century philosophy, each chapter assesses the contribution of a philosopher with particular attention paid to the key areas of the theory of knowledge, the nature of reality and the nature of philosophy itself. An extensive annotated bibliography is included which serves as an invaluable guide to works by and about the philosophers discussed.
Review
"The book is clear, astute, and rightly self-confident. It surveys all of the central and fundamental history of philosophy, but comes close enough to the great arguments and doctrines to introduce them effectively to a questioning reader. Plato, Hume, Wittgenstein, and the other makers of philosophy appear as they were, not as types of thinkers, but individual thinkers. What they believed and why is brought firmly into view." -- Ted Honderich, Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic, University College London.
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