Philosophy: The Classics

Philosophy: The Classics
by Nigel Warburton

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Author: Nigel Warburton
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1960-07-09
ISBN: 0415356296
Number of pages: 280
Publisher: Routledge

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Book Review: A great entry point, but a little too thin
Summary: 4 Stars

I bought this book for a one-stop reference to the great western philosophers, and I was not disappointed. I enjoyed being able to spend 10 minutes brushing up on Hobbes, Kant, etc. But I think 20 minutes would have been better. Warburton does a great job in these little snippets, but that's all they really are: snippets. I can almost sense him, in many entries, running out of space and time and falling into oversimplification, slapping his hands together and saying, "OK then, moving on ..."

He could have made the book about 50 pages longer and gotten a tiny bit more in-depth. Still, it's a worthwhile purchase.

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Summary of Philosophy: The Classics

In his exemplary clear style, Warburton introduces and assesses twenty-seven philosophical classics from Plato?s Republic to Rawls? A Theory of Justice. For the third edition there is new text design and revised further reading make this the ideal book for all students, while three new chapters on Nietzsche?s Beyond Good and Evil, Russell?s The Problems of Philosophy and Sartre?s Existentialism and Humanism mean that all the A Level set texts are covered.

This brisk and invigorating tour through the great books of western philosophy explores the works of Plato, Aristotle, Boethius, Machiavelli, Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Schopenhauer, Mill, Kierkegaard, Marx and Engels, Nietzsche, Russell, Ayer, Sartre, Wittgenstein, and Rawls.

Offering twenty-seven guidebooks for the price of one, this is the most comprehensive introduction to philosophers and their texts currently available.

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