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History of Philosophy, A : Volume III - Late Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy - Ockham, Francis Bacon, and the beginning of the Modern World

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Outline: Conceived originally as a serious presentation of the development of philosophy for Catholic seminary students, the author's nine-volume book has journeyed far beyond the modest purpose of its author to universal acclaim as the best history of philosophy in English. The author, an Oxford Jesuit of immense erudition who once tangled with A. J. Ayer in a fabled debate about the existence of God and the possibility of metaphysics, knew that seminary students were fed a woefully inadequate diet of theses and proofs, and that their familiarity with most of history's great thinkers was reduced to simplistic caricatures. The author set out to redress the wrong by writing a complete history of Western philosophy, one crackling with incident and intellectual excitement - and one that gives full place to each thinkers, presenting his thought in a beautifully rounded manner and showing his links to those who went before and to those who came after him. The result of the author's prodigious labors is a history of philosophy that is unlikely ever to be surpassed. Thought magazine summed up the summed up the general agreement among scholars and students alike when it reviewed the author's book as "broad-minded and objective, comprehensive and scholarly, unified and well proportioned ... We cannot recommend [it] too highly."

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Call Number

190 C79h v.3

Publisher

New York, USA : Doubleday., 1993

Collation

479

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-385-46845-9

Classification

190

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Subject(s)

Philosophy, Ancient
Philosophy, Medieval
Philosophy, Renaissance

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