The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers by Will Durant

The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

Will Durant

704 pages first pub 1926 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy challenging informative medium-paced
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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 on...

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