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"Western philosophy is now two and a half millennia old, but much of it came in just two staccato bursts, each lasting only about 150 years. In his landmark survey of Western philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance, The Dream of Reason, Anthony Gottlieb documented the first burst, which came in the Athens of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Now, in his sequel, The Dream of Enlightenment, Gottlieb expertly navigates a second great explosion of...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 The seeds of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment were sown in the seventeenth century, when some people began to think that history was the wrong way round. It was not Plato and Aristotle who were the ancients to be revered, but the admirable ancients are us.
#2 Bacon was an advocate of careful and systematic observation, and he adopted as the mascot of the Royal...
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