内容简介
Abrilliantandconciseaccountofthelivesandideasofthegreatphilosophers—Plato,Aristotle,Bacon,Spinoza,Voltaire,Kant,Schopenhauer,Spencer,Nietzsche,Bergson,Croce,Russell,Santayana,James,andDewey—TheStoryofPhilosophyisoneofthegreatbooksofourtime.Fewwriteforthenon-specialistaswellasWillDurant,andthisbookisasplendidexampleofhiseminentlyreadablescholarship.Durant’sinsightandwitneverceasetodazzle;TheStoryofPhilosophyisakeybookforanyreaderwhowishestosurveythehistoryanddevelopmentofphilosophicalideasintheWesternworld.,
作者简介
WillDurant(1885–1981)wasawardedthePulitzerPrize(1968)andthePresidentialMedalofFreedom(1977).Hespentmorethanfiftyyearswritinghiscriticallyacclaimedeleven-volumeseries,TheStoryofCivilization(thelatervolumeswritteninconjunctionwithhiswife,Ariel).Achampionofhumanrightsissues,suchasthebrotherhoodofmanandsocialreform,longbeforesuchissueswerepopular,Durant’swritingstilleducatesandentertainsreadersaroundtheworld.,