History of Western Philosophy (Routledge Classics)

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in other respects it is a marvelously readable, magnificently sweeping survey of Western thought, distinctive for placing it informatively into its historical context.

Instead it has belonged to the amateurs of philosophy, in the sense of both those who love the pursuit and those who read it in their own time for their own instruction. The only negative criticism I'd level against it was due to mid-section,which dealt with the relation between state and church in the middle ages.

In the second volume, Russell describes how Catholic philosophy developed throughout the Middle Ages. I'll probably pick Gottlieb's Dream of Reason for Greek philosophy, and later Anthony Kenny's book for another reference when I decide to do this again. And although it may not cover every philosopher to have raised their head (particularly twentieth-century ones), it certainly covers all the major philosophers that anyone would care to know about.

The variety of thought and ideas here was really incredible and made for very easy and interesting reading throughout. Para se poder criar um bom crivo crítico desta leitura é preciso começar por compreender a bagagem de Russell, alguém que começou por estudar matemática e filosofia naquilo que mais une ambas as disciplinas, a lógica, a partir do que viria lançar a corrente de pensamento que ficou conhecida como: filosofia analítica. Russell's position is much more humble than all these bigheaded philosophers who pretended to be the first one to really have found the truth, only to introduce their own favourite (ethical) positions. This is not a book that requires either an extensive knowledge of philosophy, nor an extensive knowledge of history to be understood.It ends (if I remember correctly) with a summary of his own work in Principia Mathematica and a fascinating account of how Godel undermined Russell's masterwork twenty years later. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Full title A History of Western Philosophy And Its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day – the indefinite article was deleted in the British editions. Sobre este último ponto, tenho de dizer que é algo que sempre me tinha feito alguma confusão, o modo como a filosofia estava tão carregada de religião, de deuses ou forças universais que tudo explicavam.