A History of Western Philosophy: And Its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day

Name: A History of Western Philosophy: And Its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
Author: Bertrand Russell
ISBN: 9780671314002

Bertrand Russell

1972 · Simon and Schuster · 895 pages

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[The author's] purpose is to exhibit philosophy as an integral part of social and political life: not as the isolated speculations of remarkable individuals, but as both an effect and a cause of the character of the various communities in which different systems flourished.-Pref.

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