- Philosophers, Philosophy, History, Biography
Includes chapters on Plato, Aristotle, Francis Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, and Nietzsche.
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Earnest, classical in form, cool and grave.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Will Durant, 讀書新聞社
- First published
- 1926
- Pages
- 543
- Publisher
- Washington Souare Press, Simon and Schuster, Will Durant
- Editions
- 150
- Language
- urd, German, heb, Korean
- ISBN
- 9780486848556
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“IF YOU look at a map of Europe you will observe that Greece is a skeleton-like hand stretching its crooked fingers out into the Mediterranean Sea, South of it lies the great island of Crete, from which those grasping fingers captured, in the second millennium before Christ, the beginnings of civilization and culture.”
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