The Story of Western PhilosophyThis book was born of the paperback boom, and it is meant as an aid in the interpretation of the history of Western philosophy. It is designed especially for use in a course in the history of philosophy, but I hope that it may also prove useful for other purposes, such as an historical introduction to philosophy or a comprehensive review of the history of philosophy or just as a help to the general reader trying to make some sense out of the history of Western philosophy.-Preface. |
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... story , and a story in each of the main subdivisions of those parts . Thus , the story of Western philosophy has stories within stories , wheels within wheels . Moreover , the stories we shall follow in this book are doubtless not the only ...
... story , and a story in each of the main subdivisions of those parts . Thus , the story of Western philosophy has stories within stories , wheels within wheels . Moreover , the stories we shall follow in this book are doubtless not the only ...
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... stories and the overall story which they compose as human his- tory , as the expression of the developing nature of temporal man in his natural and social world . As has already been fore- shadowed in the Preface and as will become ...
... stories and the overall story which they compose as human his- tory , as the expression of the developing nature of temporal man in his natural and social world . As has already been fore- shadowed in the Preface and as will become ...
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... Story of German Voluntarism The story of German Voluntarism begins with Kant's " Coper- nican " revolution which was itself the end of the stories of Con- tinental Rationalism and British Empiricism . Since those stories ended in the ...
... Story of German Voluntarism The story of German Voluntarism begins with Kant's " Coper- nican " revolution which was itself the end of the stories of Con- tinental Rationalism and British Empiricism . Since those stories ended in the ...
Contents
The Philosophical Story Previewed | 3 |
The Cosmological Philosophers | 13 |
The Anthropological Philosophers | 34 |
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