- Western influences, Philosophy, Political science, History
[The author's] purpose is to exhibit philosophy as an integral part of social and political life: not as the isolated speculations of remarkable individuals, but as both an effect and a cause of the character of the various communities in which different systems flourished.-Pref.
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Cool, epic, earnest and classical in form.
- cooloverwhelming
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Bertrand Russell
- First published
- 1945
- Pages
- 895
- Publisher
- Feniks, Routledge, Simon and Schuster
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- Chinese, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9780671314002
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“IN all history, nothing is so surprising or so difficult to account for as the sudden rise of civilization in Greece.”
Bertrand Arthur William Russell (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic.
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