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The dream of reason, a history of western philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance, Anthony Gottlieb

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The dream of reason, a history of western philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance, Anthony Gottlieb

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 432-456) and index

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index present

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non fiction

Main title

The dream of reason

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bibliography

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45100229

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Anthony Gottlieb

Sub title

a history of western philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance

Table Of Contents

The archetypes : the Milesians -- The harmony of the world : the Pythagoreans -- The man who searched for himself : Heraclitus -- The truth about nothing : Parmenides -- The ways of paradox : Zeno -- Love and strife : Empedocles -- Mind and matter : Anaxagoras -- He who laughs last : Democritus -- Opening Pandora's box : the Sophists -- Philosophy's martyr : Socrates and the Socratics -- The republic of reason : Plato -- The master of those who know : Aristotle -- Three roads to tranquillity : Epicureans, Stoics, and Sceptics -- The haven of piety : from late antiquity to the Renaissance

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