Socrates' Children: Ancient: The 100 Greatest Philosophers - Softcover

Kreeft, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1587317834 ISBN 13: 9781587317835

Publisher: St. Augustines Press, 2019

Synopsis

"How is this history of philosophy different from all others? 1. It's neighter very long (like Copleston's twelve-volumet tome, which is a clear and hepful reference work but pretty dull reading) nor very short (like many skimpy one-volume summaries) just long enough. 2. It's available in separate volumes but eventually in one complete work (after the four volumes - Ancient, Medieval, Modern, Contemporary - are produced in paperbound editions, a one-volume clothbound will be published). 3. It focuses on the "big ideas" that have influenced present people and present times. 4. It includes relevant biographical data, proportionate to its importance for each thinker. 5. It is not just history but philosophy. Its aim is not merely to record facts (of life oropinion) but to stimulate philosophizing, controversy, argument. 6. It aims above all at understanding, at what the old logic called the "first act of the mind" rather than the third: the thing computers and many "analytic philosophers" cannot understand. 7. It uses ordinary language and logic, not academic jargon or symbolic logic. 8. It is commonsensical (and therefore is sympathetic to commonsense philosophers like Aristotle). 9. It is "existential" in that it sees philosophy as something to be lived and tested"--

About this title

About the Author:

Peter Kreeft teaches philosophy at Boston College and is the author of scores of books in philosophy and religion, among them, from St. Augustine's Press: An Ocean Full of Angels, Socratic Logic, The Philosophy of Jesus, Jesus-Shock, The Sea Within, I Surf Therefore I Am, If Einstein Had Been a Surfer, and Summa Philosophica.

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Augustines Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1587317834
• ISBN 13: 9781587317835
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232