La saggezza dell'Occidente

A História do Pensamento Ocidental faz um panorama rápido e acessível dos filósofos, suas ideias e fatos relevantes dos períodos históricos que cercaram cada onda filosófica. É um livro introdutório, pincelando sinteticamente os assuntos. Em geral, para aqueles que tem um mínimo vocabulário filosófi Leggi tutto

I felt that the prerequisite study of philosophical history I had under my belt helped immensely while reading this. I consider myself a layman, but I have read a considerable amount of history regarding the great thinkers and their respective philosophic sciences. This book covers a lot of ground a Leggi tutto

While Russell is no historian and some of the information is wrong it's a good textbook on philosophy and how it shaped the world.

A strange book which endeavors to incorporate the whole field of what was (at one time, I presume) perceived to be uniquely 'Western'. We are less inclined to allow such a 'west vs the rest' approach nowadays, but Russell's ability to survey the whole of a certain intellectual tradition, and the aut Leggi tutto

RUSSELL WRITES A BROADER, "ILLUSTRATED" HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872-1970) was an influential British philosopher, logician, mathematician, and political activist. In 1950, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, in recognition of his many books. He wrote in the F Leggi tutto

This book is an overview of Western philosophers and their philosophical doctrines, from the mathematics of Pythagoras before Greece, to the philosophy of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle in the Greek period; from the Neoplatonism originated in Alexandria in Egypt to early Christianity; from the Proph Leggi tutto

I received this book from my girlfriend in my freshman year of college in 1974. It's been on my shelf for 48 years until I picked it up in 2022 to finally read it. Some of it's dated for sure and the narrative obviously ends well before the present day but it still was a great overview of western ph Leggi tutto