The Philosophers

The Philosophers PDF Author: Ben-Ami Scharfstein
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195059271
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 497

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Book Description
This highly readable volume offers a broad introduction to modern philosophy and philosophers. Scharfstein contends that personal experience, especially that of childhood, affects philosophers' sense of reality and hence the content of their philosophies. Basing his argument on biographical studies of twenty great philosophers, from Descartes to Sartre, he provides the beginnings of a psychological history of philosophy.