A History of Western Philosophy and Its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day - Bertrand Russell

Advantages: Very valuabe book
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...Bertrand Russell Genre: Philosophy/History Title: A History of Western Philosophy (And Its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day) Pages: xxiii + 895 Original release year: 1946, by Simon & Schuster Copyright 1945 by Bertrand Russell My edition: © 1995 by Book of the Month Club, Inc. This edition was especially created in 1995 for Book-of-the-Month Club by arrangement with Simon & Schuster, ...
...reformers of his time. While a fellow and lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge, he published his most important philosophical and mathematical works, The Principle of Mathematics (1903), and, with Alfred North Whitehead, Principia Mathematica (3 volumes). In 1938 he began teaching in the United States, at the University of Chicago and the later at UCLA. In 1950 he received the Nobel Prize of Literature. ************************************************* ... Read review

Advantages: Concise.
Disadvantages: Is it dated.

...Below my text submitted for the April book competition: BERTRAND RUSSELL - History of Western Philosophy and its connection with Political and Social Circumstances from Earliest Times to the Present Day. *** INTRODUCTION *** Russell first published this non - specialist text in 1946. It was based on work designed and partly delivered as lectures at the Barnes Foundation in Pennsylvania. My text (1995) including the index is 842 pages long and divided into 3 books. *** INTELLECTUAL CONTENT *** The text introduces itself by drawing the distinction between ethics (theology) and the scientific (theory of knowledge) in it's definition of philosophy. In more detail "like theology, it consists of speculations on matters as to which definite knowledge has, so far, been unascertainable; but like science, it appeals to human... Read review

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