Dimensions
165 x 242 x 41mm
The Dream of Reason illustrates how the story of philosophy is more the history of a sharply inquisitive cast of mind than of a sharply defined discipline. We engage immediately with both the personalities and the arguments of every major philosopher from Ancient Greece to the birth of modern philosophy in the seventeenth century; the modern era will be addressed in a second volume.Proceeding by anecdote and example, Anthony Gottlieb shows us how to celebrate the great philosophers, how to understand their ideas and how to relate those ideas to the development of the natural sciences. The Dream of Reason offers a richer, more inviting and more intelligible picture of philosophy than has emerged in any earlier history.
