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Story of Philosophy
Story of Philosophy | Will Durant
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A brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the great philosophers—Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell, Santayana, James, and Dewey—The Story of Philosophy is one of the great books of our time. Few write for the non-specialist as well as Will Durant, and this book is a splendid example of his eminently readable scholarship. Durant’s insight and wit never cease to dazzle; The Story of Philosophy is a key book for any reader who wishes to survey the history and development of philosophical ideas in the Western world.
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KaustubhK434
Story of Philosophy | Will Durant
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Literally the philosophy. Extraordinary flashback of how democracy and liberty of loving and thinking developed.

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GoneFishing
Story of Philosophy | Will Durant

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Suet624 Oh that Will Durant is one wise man. 7y
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GoneFishing
Story of Philosophy | Will Durant

And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.