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The Great Philosophers: The Lives and Ideas of History's Greatest Thinkers | 
 enlarge | Author: Stephen Law
Publisher: Quercus
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 440772
Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 10.5 x 7.4 x 1.2
ISBN: 1847240186
Dewey Decimal Number: 109
EAN: 9781847240187
ASIN: 1847240186
Publication Date: February 28, 2008
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A little bit is sometimes not really enough March 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
There are books which take a small part of a very large reality and represent it in a good and fair way. And there are other books like this one which take very complex realities and use a small sample of the reality in question to show how unfair such a method can be. I will take one example from this book. There is a chapter here on the political philosopher Hannah Arendt. Hannah Arendt is most well known for her work on the origins of Totalitarianism. But her most comprehensive philosophical effort is her work 'The Human Condition'. What this book does take what is arguably Arendt's least philosophical work her coverage of the Eichmann trial and make that stand for her work as a whole. It is simply bad judgment.
There are other problems with the work as a whole. The small biographical sketches appended are truly too small to really give a fair idea of the life of the philosopher involved.
If one is looking for quick understandings of the work of great philosophers I believe one is essentially contradicting what the philosophical enterprise is all about.
OK, but.. February 22, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this book for a breif overview of philosophy, and it's good for that. A page or two on each. But the omission of Epicurus is simply unforgivable! I'm afaid I must grade F.
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