The Story of Philosophy, Will Durant
The Story of Philosophy, Will Durant
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The Story of Philosophy
The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers

Author: Will Durant

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 19 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/17/2010

Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Synopsis

The product of eleven years of research, The Story of Philosophy is an endlessly inspiring and instructive chronicle of the worlds greatest thinkers, from Socrates to Santayana. Written with exacting and scrupulous scholarship, it was designed both to command the respect of educators and to capture the interest of the layman. Durant lucidly describes the philosophical systems of such worldfamous monarchs of the mind as Plato, Aristotle, Francis Bacon, Spinoza, Kant, Voltaire, and Nietzsche. Along with their ideas, he offers their fleshandblood biographies, placing their thoughts within their own time and place and elucidating their influence on our modern intellectual heritage. This book is packed with wisdom and wit.

About Will Durant

Will Durant (1885–1981) was an award-winning American writer, historian, and philosopher. He and his wife were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1968 for Rousseau and Revolution, and he was a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Durant spent over forty years writing the critically acclaimed eleven-volume Story of Civilization, the later volumes with the help of his wife, Ariel. He sought
to revitalize history by unifying and humanizing the great body of historical
knowledge, which had become voluminous and fragmented into esoteric
subcategories. He also strove to bring
philosophy to the common man. Durant was a champion of human rights, social reform, and the brotherhood of man long before they became well-known issues.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Riku on March 10, 2014

This was a long postponed book as I always thought it would be a long and trudging read, hard to comprehend and harder to remember afterwards. But Durant's treatment of the philosophers and their ideas as organic evolutions of their character and their times was what made the book a joy to read. The......more

Goodreads review by فؤاد on April 25, 2017

نكات مثبت از خصوصيات ويل دورانت، چه اينجا و چه در تاريخ تمدن، نثر ساده و همه فهم اوست كه گهگاه چاشنى طنازى هم به آن مى افزايد. نيز، هميشه در چنته ى خود مقدار زيادى اطلاعات رنگارنگ و جالب تاريخى دارد كه به مناسبت، رويشان مى كند و خواننده را هر چه بيشتر پاى نوشته اش ميخكوب مى كند. نكات منفى از دو جهت کتاب......more

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