The Dream of Reason A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance New Edition by Gottlieb 0393354229 9780393354225

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• ISBN 10: 0393354229
• ISBN 13: 9780393354225
• Author: Gottlieb

“His book…supplant[s] all others, even the immensely successful History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell.”—A. C. Grayling Already a classic, this landmark study of early Western thought now appears in a new edition with expanded coverage of the Middle Ages. This landmark study of Western thought takes a fresh look at the writings of the great thinkers of classic philosophy and questions many pieces of conventional wisdom. The book invites comparison with Bertrand Russell’s monumental History of Western Philosophy, “but Gottlieb’s book is less idiosyncratic and based on more recent scholarship” (Colin McGinn, Los Angeles Times). A New York Times Notable Book, a Los Angeles Times Best Book, and a Times Literary Supplement Best Book of 2001.

Table of contents:

1. The Archetypes: The Milesians

2. The Harmony of the World: The Pythagoreans

3. The Man Who Searched for Himself: Heraclitus

4. The Truth About Nothing: Parmenides

5. The Ways of Paradox: Zeno

6. Love and Strife: Empedocles

7. Mind and Matter: Anaxagoras

8. He Who Laughs Last: Democritus

9. Opening Pandora’s Box: The Sophists

Part Two

10. Philosophy’s Martyr: Socrates and the Socratics

11. The Republic of Reason: Plato

12. The Master of Those Who Know: Aristotle

Part Three

13. Three Roads to Tranquillity: Epicureans, Stoics and Sceptics

14. The Haven of Piety: Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

15. Voyages of Rediscovery: the Renaissance

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