History of Modern Philosophy
Gelesen von Pamela Nagami
Alfred William Benn
(4,556 Sterne; 18 Bewertungen)
This book is a brief, but cogent discussion of Western philosophy-- from Francis Bacon and Giordano Bruno through Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, Hume, Berkeley and Kant, the German idealists and Hegel, and ending with such nineteenth century luminaries as Mill, Spencer, and Nietzsche. Enchanted with Copernicus, Bruno goes to the stake for positing an infinity of inhabited worlds. Descartes, a professed skeptic, manages to justify everything the Jesuits taught him at La Flèche, while Spinoza, in mystical awe, envisions a pantheistic cosmos in which thought and extension are one and the same thing--God. The British philosopher, A.W. Benn, presents each thinker biographically and within the context of his philosophical predecessors and contemporaries. (Pamela Nagami, M.D.) (5 hr 1 min)
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Solid Overview
Nicholas Stehly
(5 Sterne)
The author has an opinion but luckily he carries with it a formed background of the philosophers and their ideas
well read
Thiago Coelho
(5 Sterne)
Benn has very dubious opinions about the philosophers he covers, but he does cover them
Exceptional Reader. Amongst the best I have so far. would be nice if reader rea…
excellent reader! wish he would Hegel or Heidegger
(5 Sterne)