Alsted, professor of philosophy and theology at the Calvinist academy of Herborn, was a man of many parts. This intellectual biography opens up unexpected perspectives on the central European Reformed tradition as a whole.
An account of the lives and opinions of the great philosophers of the Western World from Plato to Santayana.
Examines the history of speculative thought by focusing on such dominant personalities as Plato, Bacon, Spinoza, Kant, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche.
Chronicles the ideas of the great thinkers, the economic and intellectual environments which influenced them, and the personal traits and adventures out of which each philosophy grew.
"A brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the great philosophers-Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell, Santayana, James, and Dewey-The Story of Philosophy is one of the great books of our tim…
Examines the history of speculative thought by focusing on such dominant personalities as Plato, Bacon, Spinoza, Kant, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche.
