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A History of Western Philosophy

Bertrand Russell

Must be read after Meditations on First Philosophy.

Published1945
Pages872
Open Library4.2 / 5
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[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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