Author | : Ben-Ami Scharfstein |
File Size | : 51,9 Mb |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 18 May 1989 |
ISBN | : 9780195059274 |
Pages | : 497 pages |
The Philosophers by Ben-Ami Scharfstein Book PDF Summary
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.