In his book, Nigel Warburton summarizes the main ideas of great western philosophical currents throughout the ages.
This is not the first publication where Warburton introduces philosophy to approach every reader in an accessible fashion. He previously published Philosophy: The Basics (1992), Thinking from A to Z (1996) and Free Speech: A Very Short Introduction (2009). A philosopher himself, he has served as a Senior Lecturer at the Open University and podcaster.
From ancient Socrates to contemporary Peter Singer, A Little History of Philosophy takes us on a delectable tour to finally grasp what the greatest western thinkers meant to say.
Through a simple and straightforward narrative, this book choice might be just for you if you seek to understand better the following people with a guide: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Pyrrho, Epicurus, Epictetus, Cicero, Seneca, Augustine, Boethius, Anselm, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Descartes, Pascal, Spinoza, Locke, Reid, Berkeley, Voltaire, Leibniz, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Bentham, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Mill, Darwin, Kierkegaard, Marx, Peirce, James, Nietzsche, Freud, Russell, Ayer, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Camus, Wittgenstein, Arendt, Popper, Kuhn, Foot, Thomson, Rawls, Turing, Searle and Singer.
An ideal and easy escape for those who find tedious reading the complete works of these forethinkers or brushing up an old school subject.
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