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davidst 's review for:
The History of Western Philosophy
by Bertrand Russell
I started this shortly after reading Durant's History of Philosophy book, so its hard not to compare the two. Durant's book covered far less history and only a few select philosophers and I liked reading Durant's synopsis of the ones covered more than the similar shorter ones found here. Where this book seemed to excel was the amount of material covered, whereas Durant only covered a few, Russell covered a large number of philosophers and history. Just the amount of additional material covered here makes this a nice complementary read. Although both books are obviously biased and so I'll have to read a few more neutral accounts. I also didn't like that often in this book Russell seemed to go off on tangents about what he disagreed with and set up what seemed to be straw man arguments to disprove the other philosophers.