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In the ninth century BCE, the peoples of four distinct regions of the civilized world created the religious and philosophical traditions that have continued to nourish humanity to the present day: Confucianism and Daoism in China, Hinduism and Buddhism in India, monotheism in Israel, and philosophical rationalism in Greece. Later generations further developed these initial insights, but we have never grown beyond them. Now, Karen Armstrong reveals...
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Great books of the Western world volume 8-9
Publisher
Encyclopædia Britannica
Pub. Date
[1952]
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English
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History of Western philosophy volume 1
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1989.
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1320L
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English
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Barnes & Noble
Pub. Date
[2005]
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English
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From the Publisher: Western philosophy starts with Socrates and his student Plato. By way of the dialectic that evolved between master and student, Plato invented the philosophical method of inquiry and analysis, and became the first to use a logical framework to ask-and try to answer-the eternal questions about ethics, politics, art, and life that still haunt humanity. Along with such exemplars of Plato's thought as Symposium, Apology, and Phaedrus,...
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Great books of the Western world volume 7
Publisher
Encyclopædia Britannica
Pub. Date
[1952]
Language
English