Reviews for Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Great Philosophers - Will Durant - Mass M...

The average rating for Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Great Philosophers - Will Durant - Mass M... based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-06-02 00:00:00 Jeremy Damstra The Story of Philosophy, Will Durant The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers is a 1926 book by Will Durant, in which he profiles several prominent Western philosophers and their ideas, beginning with Socrates and Plato and on through Friedrich Nietzsche. Durant attempts to show the interconnection of their ideas and how one philosopher's ideas informed the next. تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز نخست نوامبر سال 1986میلادی عنوان: تاریخ فلسفه؛ گردآوری: ویل دورانت؛ مترجم: عباس زریاب خویی؛ چاپ نخست 1336؛ در 426ص این کتاب «داستان فلسفه»، در کشور ما با عنوان: «تاریخ فلسفه» بسیار چاپ شده است؛ کتاب شامل یازده فصل است، فصل نخست: «افلاطون (به علاوه قسمتی در مورد سقراط)»؛ فصل دوم: «ارسطو»؛ فصل سوم: «بیکن»؛ فصل چهارم: «اسپینوزا»؛ فصل پنجم: «ولتر (به علاوه قسمتی در مورد روسو)»؛ فصل ششم: «کانت (به علاوه قسمتی در مورد هگل)»؛ فصل هفتم: «شوپنهاور»؛ فصل هشتم: «اسپنسر»؛ فصل نهم: «نیچه»؛ فصل دهم: «برگسون، کروچه و راسل»؛ فصل یازدهم: «سانتایانا، جیمز و دیویی».؛ تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 19/07/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی

Review # 2 was written on 2011-10-25 00:00:00 Joseph Morris This was a long postponed book as I always thought it would be a long and trudging read, hard to comprehend and harder to remember afterwards. But Durant's treatment of the philosophers and their ideas as organic evolutions of their character and their times was what made the book a joy to read. The ideas and the long dead philosophers come alive magnificently in these pages and Durant even manages to fill one with the thirst to go ahead and read all these works that are compressed and presented here. This is one of those books which takes a long time to read not because they are long and arduous but because you end up spending more time thinking about each section than in the reading. The best part of the book was the fact that wherever possible the ideas are put forth in the philosopher's own words without commentary or interpretation marring the expostulation. With the right mix of history, biography and philosophy, Durant has achieved a wonderful synthesis and summary of the evolution of thought. It leaves one with a tantalizing glimpse of great minds and a partial open door through which is too filled with riches to be left unexplored.