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In Aristotle in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Aristotle's life and ideas and explains their influence on man's struggle to understand his existence in the world.
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- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,856
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,504
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,488
Durant lucidly describes the philosophical systems of such world-famous “monarchs of the mind” as Plato, Aristotle, Francis Bacon, Spinoza, Kant, Voltaire, and Nietzsche. Along with their ideas, he offers their flesh-and-blood biographies, placing their thoughts within their own time and place and elucidating their influence on our modern intellectual heritage. This book is packed with wisdom and wit.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic and insightful book
- De ESK en 01-25-13
De: Will Durant
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Socrates
- A Man for Our Times
- De: Paul Johnson
- Narrado por: John Curless
- Duración: 4 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 177
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 154
Acclaimed historian and best-selling author Paul Johnson’s books have been translated into dozens of languages. In Socrates: A Man for Our Times, Johnson draws from little-known resources to construct a fascinating account of one of history’s greatest thinkers. Socrates transcended class limitations in Athens during the fifth century B.C. to develop ideas that still shape the way we think about the human body and soul, including the workings of the human mind.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Plat-Soc-Paul
- De Megasaurus en 11-17-12
De: Paul Johnson
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Descartes' Bones
- A Skeletal History of the Conflict between Faith and Reason
- De: Russell Shorto
- Narrado por: Paul Hecht
- Duración: 9 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 243
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 105
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 103
On a brutal winter's day in 1650 in Stockholm, Frenchman Rene Descartes, the most influential and controversial thinker of his time, was buried after a cold and lonely deathfar from home. Sixteen years later, the pious French Ambassador Hugues de Terlon secretly unearthed Descartes' bones and transported them to France. Why would this devoutly Catholic official care so much about the remains of a philosopher who washounded from country after country on charges of atheism?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Philosophy of Modernity
- De Roger en 06-17-09
De: Russell Shorto
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The Enlightenment
- And Why It Still Matters
- De: Anthony Pagden
- Narrado por: Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 16 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 127
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 111
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 112
One of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the modern world. Liberty and equality. Human rights. Freedom of thought and expression. Belief in reason and progress. The value of scientific inquiry. These are just some of the ideas that were conceived and developed during the Enlightenment, and which changed forever the intellectual landscape of the Western world.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A thorough political tract rather than history
- De Jacobus en 03-08-14
De: Anthony Pagden
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Ibn Khaldun
- An Intellectual Biography
- De: Robert Irwin
- Narrado por: John Telfer
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 86
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 72
Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in the Arab world - a genius who ranks as one of the world's great minds. Yet the author of the Muqaddima, the most important study of history ever produced in the Islamic world, is not as well known as he should be, and his ideas are widely misunderstood. In this groundbreaking intellectual biography, Robert Irwin provides an engaging and authoritative account of Ibn Khaldun's extraordinary life, times, writings, and ideas.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Issues with accuracy, pronounciation
- De Moh 3aly en 01-02-19
De: Robert Irwin
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The Genesis of Science
- How the Christian Middle Ages Launched the Scientific Revolution
- De: James Hannam
- Narrado por: Rich Germaine
- Duración: 13 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 64
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 58
If you were taught that the Middle Ages were a time of intellectual stagnation, superstition, and ignorance, you were taught a myth that has been utterly refuted by modern scholarship. As a physicist and historian of science James Hannam shows in his brilliant new book, The Genesis of Science: How the Christian Middle Ages Launched the Scientific Revolution, without the scholarship of the "barbaric" Middle Ages, modern science simply would not exist. The Middle Ages were a time of one intellectual triumph after another.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Insightful!
- De John en 07-07-15
De: James Hannam
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Philosophy: 100 Essential Thinkers
- The Ideas That Have Shaped Our World
- De: Philip Stokes
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 8 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 114
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 93
This engaging and accessible book invites the listener to explore the questions and arguments of philosophy through the work of 100 of the greatest thinkers within the Western intellectual tradition - covering philosophical, scientific, political, and religious thought over a period of 2500 years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unpretentious, honest, with a big picture
- De Mike S. en 05-29-17
De: Philip Stokes
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How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization
- De: Thomas E. Woods Jr.
- Narrado por: Barrett Whitener
- Duración: 7 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,291
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,035
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,032
Western civilization has given us modern science, the wealth of free-market economics, the security of law, a sense of human rights and freedom, charity as a virtue, splendid art and music, philosophy grounded in reason, and innumerable other gifts we take for granted.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating and informative
- De Michael Kellogg en 09-29-05
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The Rise and Fall of Alexandria
- Birthplace of the Modern Mind
- De: Justin Pollard, Howard Reid
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 11 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,033
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 701
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 699
Founded by Alexander the Great and built by self-styled Greek pharaohs, the city of Alexandria at its height dwarfed both Athens and Rome. It was the marvel of its age, legendary for its vast palaces, safe harbors, and magnificent lighthouse. But it was most famous for the astonishing intellectual efflorescence it fostered and the library it produced. If the European Renaissance was the "rebirth" of Western culture, then Alexandria, Egypt, was its birthplace.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A good listen
- De Jeffrey en 10-02-08
De: Justin Pollard, y otros
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Nature's God
- The Heretical Origins of the American Republic
- De: Matthew Stewart
- Narrado por: Michael Quinlan
- Duración: 17 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 120
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 110
Where did the ideas come from that became the cornerstone of American democracy? Not only the erudite Thomas Jefferson, the wily and elusive Ben Franklin, and the underappreciated Thomas Paine, but also Ethan Allen, the hero of the Green Mountain Boys, and Thomas Young, the forgotten Founder who kicked off the Boston Tea Party. These radicals who founded America set their sights on a revolution of the mind. Derided as "infidels" and "atheists" in their own time, they wanted to liberate us not just from one king but from the tyranny of supernatural religion.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent exploration of this subject
- De Caroline en 01-13-15
De: Matthew Stewart
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The Metaphysical Club
- De: Louis Menand
- Narrado por: Henry Leyva
- Duración: 6 h y 53 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 304
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 167
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 163
Hardly a club in the conventional sense, the organization referred to in the title of this superb literary hybrid (part history, part biography, part philosophy) consisted of four members and probably existed for less than nine months.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Great American Experiment
- De Victoria en 12-08-03
De: Louis Menand
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Battling the Gods
- Atheism in the Ancient World
- De: Tim Whitmarsh
- Narrado por: James Langton
- Duración: 10 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 93
Long before the European Enlightenment and the Darwinian revolution, which we often take to mark the birth of the modern revolt against religious explanations of the world, brave people doubted the power of the gods. Religion provoked skepticism in ancient Greece, and heretics argued that history must be understood as a result of human action rather than divine intervention. They devised theories of the cosmos based on matter and notions of matter based on atoms.
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5 out of 5 stars
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We have a history as long and as rich as any relig
- De Glencannnon en 08-13-19
De: Tim Whitmarsh
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Seven Types of Atheism
- De: John Gray
- Narrado por: James Langton
- Duración: 6 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 59
For a generation now, public debate has been corroded by a shrill, narrow derision of religion in the name of an often vaguely understood “science.” John Gray’s stimulating and enjoyable new book, Seven Types of Atheism, describes the complex, dynamic world of older atheisms, a tradition that is, he writes, in many ways intertwined with and as rich as religion itself.
De: John Gray
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The House of Wisdom
- How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
- De: Jim Al-Khalili
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 10 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 350
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 312
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 313
The Arabic legacy of science and philosophy has long been hidden from the West. British-Iraqi physicist Jim Al-Khalili unveils that legacy to fascinating effect by returning to its roots in the hubs of Arab innovation that would advance science and jump-start the European Renaissance.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very interesting book, well-narrated for sure
- De Roderic Rinehart en 11-07-20
De: Jim Al-Khalili
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Socrates in 90 Minutes
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
- Duración: 1 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,036
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 857
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 847
Just a century after it had begun, philosophy entered its greatest age with the appearance of Socrates, who spent so much of his time talking about philosophy on the streets of Athens that he never got around to writing anything down. His method of aggressive questioning, called dialectic, was the forerunner of logic; he used it to cut through the twaddle of his adversaries and arrive at the truth. Rather than questioning the world, he believed, we would be better off questioning ourselves.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I thought it was OK
- De Theodore en 11-21-11
De: Paul Strathern
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Plato in 90 Minutes
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
- Duración: 1 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 739
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 619
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 612
In an age when philosophers had scarcely glimpsed the horizons of the mind, a boy named Aristocles decided to forgo his ambitions as a wrestler. Adopting the nickname Plato, he embarked instead on a life in philosophy. In 387 B.C. he founded the Academy, the world's first university, and taught his students that all we see is not reality but merely a reproduction of the true source. And in his famous Republic he described the politics of "the highest form of state."
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2 out of 5 stars
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Less progressive opinion, more on Plato
- De Josiah Brunette en 09-08-21
De: Paul Strathern
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Nietzsche in 90 Minutes
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
- Duración: 1 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 992
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 822
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 817
With Friedrich Nietzsche, philosophy was dangerous not only for philosophers but for everyone. His ideas presaged a collective madness that had horrific consequences in Europe in the early 1900s. Though his philosophy is more one of aphorisms than a system, it is brilliant, persuasive, and incisive. His major concept is the will to power, which he saw as the basic impulse for all our acts. Christianity he saw as a subtle perversion of this concept, thus Nietzsche's famous pronouncement, "God is dead."
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1 out of 5 stars
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Shallow and misleading
- De Mark G en 07-17-04
De: Paul Strathern
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Descartes in 90 Minutes
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
- Duración: 1 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 440
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 370
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 370
Rene Descartes spent most of his childhood in solitude, a situation that also came to characterize his adult life. Fortunately, these countless lonely hours helped Descartes produce the declaration that changed all philosophy: "I think, therefore I am." Eventually convincing himself to doubt and disregard sensory knowledge, Descartes found he could prove his existence through his thoughts. This internal information, he believed, was the true reality and external forces were hopelessly deceiving.
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2 out of 5 stars
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The title says it all
- De James McIlvaine en 10-27-20
De: Paul Strathern
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Kierkegaard in 90 Minutes
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
- Duración: 1 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 605
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 488
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 486
Kierkegaard wasn't really a philosopher in the academic sense. Yet he produced what many people expect of philosophy. His subject was the individual and his or her existence, the "existing being." In Kierkegaard's view, this purely subjective entity lay beyond the reach of reason, logic, philosophical systems, theology, or even "the pretenses of psychology." Nonetheless, it was the source of all these subjects. The branch of philosophy to which Kierkegaard gave birth has come to be known as existentialism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great intros
- De Peter en 09-05-04
De: Paul Strathern
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Spinoza in 90 Minutes
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
- Duración: 1 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 620
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 506
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 502
Spinoza's brilliant metaphysical system was derived neither from reality nor experience. Starting from basic assumptions, with a series of geometric proofs he built a universe which was also God, one and the same thing, the classic example of pantheism. Although his system seems an oddity today, Spinoza's conclusions are deeply in accord with modern thought, from science (the holistic ethics of today's ecologists) to politics (the idea that the state exists to protect the individual).
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very Useful for the Beginner
- De Jesse en 05-06-06
De: Paul Strathern
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Socrates in 90 Minutes
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
- Duración: 1 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,036
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 857
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 847
Just a century after it had begun, philosophy entered its greatest age with the appearance of Socrates, who spent so much of his time talking about philosophy on the streets of Athens that he never got around to writing anything down. His method of aggressive questioning, called dialectic, was the forerunner of logic; he used it to cut through the twaddle of his adversaries and arrive at the truth. Rather than questioning the world, he believed, we would be better off questioning ourselves.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I thought it was OK
- De Theodore en 11-21-11
De: Paul Strathern
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Plato in 90 Minutes
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
- Duración: 1 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 739
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 619
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 612
In an age when philosophers had scarcely glimpsed the horizons of the mind, a boy named Aristocles decided to forgo his ambitions as a wrestler. Adopting the nickname Plato, he embarked instead on a life in philosophy. In 387 B.C. he founded the Academy, the world's first university, and taught his students that all we see is not reality but merely a reproduction of the true source. And in his famous Republic he described the politics of "the highest form of state."
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2 out of 5 stars
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Less progressive opinion, more on Plato
- De Josiah Brunette en 09-08-21
De: Paul Strathern
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Nietzsche in 90 Minutes
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
- Duración: 1 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 992
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 822
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 817
With Friedrich Nietzsche, philosophy was dangerous not only for philosophers but for everyone. His ideas presaged a collective madness that had horrific consequences in Europe in the early 1900s. Though his philosophy is more one of aphorisms than a system, it is brilliant, persuasive, and incisive. His major concept is the will to power, which he saw as the basic impulse for all our acts. Christianity he saw as a subtle perversion of this concept, thus Nietzsche's famous pronouncement, "God is dead."
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1 out of 5 stars
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Shallow and misleading
- De Mark G en 07-17-04
De: Paul Strathern
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Descartes in 90 Minutes
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
- Duración: 1 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 440
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 370
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 370
Rene Descartes spent most of his childhood in solitude, a situation that also came to characterize his adult life. Fortunately, these countless lonely hours helped Descartes produce the declaration that changed all philosophy: "I think, therefore I am." Eventually convincing himself to doubt and disregard sensory knowledge, Descartes found he could prove his existence through his thoughts. This internal information, he believed, was the true reality and external forces were hopelessly deceiving.
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2 out of 5 stars
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The title says it all
- De James McIlvaine en 10-27-20
De: Paul Strathern
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Kierkegaard in 90 Minutes
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
- Duración: 1 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 605
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 488
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 486
Kierkegaard wasn't really a philosopher in the academic sense. Yet he produced what many people expect of philosophy. His subject was the individual and his or her existence, the "existing being." In Kierkegaard's view, this purely subjective entity lay beyond the reach of reason, logic, philosophical systems, theology, or even "the pretenses of psychology." Nonetheless, it was the source of all these subjects. The branch of philosophy to which Kierkegaard gave birth has come to be known as existentialism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great intros
- De Peter en 09-05-04
De: Paul Strathern
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Spinoza in 90 Minutes
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
- Duración: 1 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 620
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 506
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 502
Spinoza's brilliant metaphysical system was derived neither from reality nor experience. Starting from basic assumptions, with a series of geometric proofs he built a universe which was also God, one and the same thing, the classic example of pantheism. Although his system seems an oddity today, Spinoza's conclusions are deeply in accord with modern thought, from science (the holistic ethics of today's ecologists) to politics (the idea that the state exists to protect the individual).
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very Useful for the Beginner
- De Jesse en 05-06-06
De: Paul Strathern
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Hume in 90 Minutes
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
- Duración: 1 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 469
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 387
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 387
David Hume reduced philosophy to ruins: he denied the existence of everything, except our actual perceptions themselves. I alone exist, he argued, and the world is nothing more than part of my consciousness. Yet we know that the world remains, and we go on as before. What Hume expressed was the status of our knowledge about the world, a world in which neither religion nor science is certain.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A cynical history of philosophy
- De Kindle Customer en 12-07-10
De: Paul Strathern
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Kant in 90 Minutes
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
- Duración: 1 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 584
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Immanuel Kant taught and wrote prolifically about physical geography yet never traveled further than forty miles from his home in Kvnigsberg. How appropriate it is then that in his philosophy he should deny that all knowledge was derived from experience. He insisted that all experience must conform to knowledge. According to Kant, space and time are subjective; along with various "categories," they help us to see the phenomena of the world, though never its true reality.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Kant lite
- De CyberMind en 05-25-04
De: Paul Strathern
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Rousseau in 90 Minutes
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
- Duración: 1 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 305
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 250
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 251
In Rousseau we encounter a walking ego, naked sensibility. Feeling triumphs over intellectual argument in his works, which are both deeply stirring and deeply inconsistent. Yet while his contemporaries Kant and Hume may have been superior academic philosophers, the sheer power of Rousseau's ideas was unequaled in his time. It was he who encouraged the introduction of both liberty and irrationality into the public domain.
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4 out of 5 stars
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In 90 Minutes Series overview
- De L Mark Higgins en 08-01-12
De: Paul Strathern
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Thomas Aquinas in 90 Minutes
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
- Duración: 1 h y 21 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 463
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 390
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We see our age as the greatest in human history, filled with seemingly unending originality. Yet such dynamism is not a necessary characteristic of great eras. Among the most long-lasting and stable civilizations was that of medieval Europe. There stasis was achieved, and with it a stability that permitted the development of structured thought and intellectual embellishment of unparalleled degree.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A mixed bag
- De RAC en 11-26-05
De: Paul Strathern
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Hegel in 90 Minutes
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
- Duración: 1 h y 15 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 423
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 339
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 335
With Hegel, philosophy became very difficult indeed. His dialectical method produced the most grandiose metaphysical system known to man. Even Hegel conceded that "only one man understands me, and even he does not." Hegel's system included absolutely everything, but its most vital element was the dialectic of the thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. This method sprang from Hegel's ambition to overcome the deficiencies of logic and ascended toward mind as the ultimate reality.
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1 out of 5 stars
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WWF Bodyslam on Hegel
- De quinet en 10-22-05
De: Paul Strathern
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Confucius in 90 Minutes
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
- Duración: 1 h y 15 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 548
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Confucius knew all about life and told us how to behave, but we can't find out precisely what he was up to. His well-meaning platitudes, quaint maxims, and quasi-enigmatic anecdotes combined to produce an ideal philosophy for civil servants. It would appear that his aim was to turn his pupils into good government officials, but his teachings succeeded beyond his wildest expectations, providing rules of conduct and spiritual fodder for more than two thousand years.
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2 out of 5 stars
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The author seems to dislike Confucius
- De DMC en 06-07-06
De: Paul Strathern
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Sartre in 90 Minutes
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
- Duración: 1 h y 40 m
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During his lifetime, Jean-Paul Sartre enjoyed unprecedented popularity for a philosopher, due partly to his role as a spokesman for existentialism at the opportune moment, when this set of ideas filled the spiritual gap left amidst the ruins of World War II. Existentialism was a philosophy of action and showed the ultimate freedom of the individual. In Sartre's hands, it became a revolt against European bourgeois values.
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4 out of 5 stars
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In 90 Minutes Series overview
- De L Mark Higgins en 08-01-12
De: Paul Strathern
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Schopenhauer in 90 Minutes
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
- Duración: 1 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 430
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 349
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 346
Schopenhauer, the "philosopher of pessimism", makes it very plain that he regards the world and our life in it as a bad joke. But if the world is indifferent to our fate, it doesn't thwart us on purpose. The world's facade is supported by what Schopenhauer calls the Universal Will, blind and without purpose. This Will brings on all our misery and suffering; our only hope is to liberate ourselves from its power and from the trappings of individualism and egoism that are at its mercy.
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4 out of 5 stars
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In 90 Minutes Series overview
- De L Mark Higgins en 08-01-12
De: Paul Strathern
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Wittgenstein in 90 Minutes
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
- Duración: 1 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 326
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 251
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 249
"If we accept Wittgenstein's word for it," Paul Strathern writes, "he is the last philosopher. In his view, philosophy in the traditional sense was finished."
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1 out of 5 stars
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Hatchet Job
- De Joseph en 05-13-05
De: Paul Strathern
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Marx in 90 Minutes
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
- Duración: 1 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 518
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 426
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Karl Marx's devastating critique of capitalism, and his proposal of communism as the answer to the failings of the capitalist system, bore their greatest fruits in the twentieth century with the formation of the communist state in the Soviet Union. This great venture has now all but completely failed. Yet the force of the communist belief offered the prospect of "justice on this earth" to countless numbers. And Marx's critique has influenced generations of thinkers who call themselves Marxists.
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Save your 90 minutes
- De Derek en 04-15-06
De: Paul Strathern
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Dostoevsky in 90 Minutes
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
- Duración: 2 h y 6 m
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After narrowly avoiding a firing squad when he was just twenty-eight years old, Dostoevsky never took things lightly. His great novels burst upon the European literary scene like a succession of thunderbolts. His understanding of the darker and more extreme recesses of the human mind cast a forceful light into these areas of experience. The raw psychology and passionate involvement of his books galvanized writers and thinkers as disparate as Nietzsche and Kafka.
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Author doesn’t actually like Dostoevsky
- De Customer en 07-11-21
De: Paul Strathern
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Heidegger in 90 Minutes
- De: Paul Strathern
- Narrado por: Robert Whitfield
- Duración: 1 h y 27 m
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One of the two major philosophical traditions of the twentieth century was linguistic analysis, derived largely from Wittgenstein. The other, diametrically opposed, came from Heidegger, and its fundamental question was, "What is the meaning of existence?" For Heidegger, this question could not simply be "analyzed away". It was beyond the reach of logic or reason. It was the primary "given" of every individual life. To confront it, Heidegger needed to develop an entire new form of philosophy.
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not a fair treatment
- De Robert en 07-16-07
De: Paul Strathern
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Aristotle in 90 Minutes
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- L Mark Higgins
- 08-01-12
In 90 Minutes Series overview
If you could sum up Aristotle in 90 Minutes in three words, what would they be?
aka Cliff Notes
Would you recommend Aristotle in 90 Minutes to your friends? Why or why not?
Yes - I've listened to each book in the series about a major philosopher that is available on Audible. Strathern's books don't have the analytical depth found in Will Durant's "The Story of Philosophy" books, but he does a good job summarizing each philosopher's biography, major philosophical points, and criticisms. Additionally, Strathern's breadth is broader than Durant's in that he covers a greater number of philosophers. I believe that the time spent listening to these books has been well-spent.
My reviews for each book in the series about a philosopher are identical.
What about Robert Whitfield’s performance did you like?
Voice is clear, well-modulated, and easily understood, even at 1 1/2 speed.
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- sir james
- 08-26-24
Stupid people have been around forever
Aristotle was inspiring and brilliant, those who tried to change his stuff were idiots.
Saying a unicorn is a horse is niave, in reality it is a one horn rhinoceros.
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- michael
- 01-11-21
QUICK AND EASY
HEADER SAYS IT ALL. Add the series if you aren't too familiar with who these people were and want to learn a little.
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- Adam Mason
- 07-05-21
Great synopsis of Aristotle
Aristotle and the men he conversed with throughout his life, have left heavy foot prints on the modern philosophical view of the world. This is a great run through on who Aristotle was amongst those men.
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- John Struska
- 12-20-21
Cold
Little dull. Not what I was expecting. Hard to explain. Sorta attempt to comically portray his life felt odd. It was not what I was expecting. Learned a little bit, only little. Final word: it felt odd. Sorry!
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- Joshua Burke
- 10-03-22
like an entire undergrad degree in one
everything you need to know in one book about the man that used to take 9 college courses . love it
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- Sam.i.Ann
- 07-26-21
Informative
I like short informative books to tell me just the facts, which this book accomplishes. It is interesting how the Christian faith went from a Spiritual view to a philosophical view so early.
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- Robert Lyons
- 11-26-22
Quick read ok not great
Hard to get all in on the subject in short time. But it’s free so worth a listen.
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- B from the D
- 01-04-23
A dry reading of too many facts
Starts out with a useless story about the author and Aristotle's statue. The rest of the book drones on and on and on ... about a litany of facts. Ugh.
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- Okay
- 01-06-23
Not bad
Was hoping it would focus just a bit more on his Philosophy, but it's pretty good over all.
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