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A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
2.0
A history of western philosophy covers the most prominent philosophers from recorded western history, beginning with the first Archaic Greek Philosophy to his contemporary period in the 20th century.
I found this book hard going; not only is it over eight-hundred pages long his writing style (at least in my view) isn't very captivating. that in itself isn't very important as long as the book is informative and well-researched however it seemed like a lot of the space taken up by each philosophy was used explaining their life and not their contributions to philosophy.
overall while I appreciate Russel's obvious knowledge of the subject I found this a difficult read and would recommend just skimming some of the key Philosophers.
I found this book hard going; not only is it over eight-hundred pages long his writing style (at least in my view) isn't very captivating. that in itself isn't very important as long as the book is informative and well-researched however it seemed like a lot of the space taken up by each philosophy was used explaining their life and not their contributions to philosophy.
overall while I appreciate Russel's obvious knowledge of the subject I found this a difficult read and would recommend just skimming some of the key Philosophers.