Title:
The dream of reason : a history of western philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance / Anthony Gottlieb.
Author:
Gottlieb, Anthony.
Publication Information:
New York : W.W. Norton, c2000.
Call Number:
B72 .G68 2000
Edition:
1st American ed.
ISBN:
9780393049510
Physical Description:
ix, 468 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Contents:
The archetypes : the Milesians -- The harmony of the world : the Pythagoreans -- The man who searched for himself : Heraclitus -- The truth about nothing : Parmenides -- The ways of paradox : Zeno -- Love and strife : Empedocles -- Mind and matter : Anaxagoras -- He who laughs last : Democritus -- Opening Pandora's box : the Sophists -- Philosophy's martyr : Socrates and the Socratics -- The republic of reason : Plato -- The master of those who know : Aristotle -- Three roads to tranquillity : Epicureans, Stoics, and Sceptics -- The haven of piety : from late antiquity to the Renaissance.
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