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Founders of Western Philosophy: Thales to Hume

Founders of Western Philosophy: Thales to Hume

Berliner, Michael S.
Peikoff, Leonard

Paperback

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0996010173
ISBN13: 9780996010177
Publisher: Ayn Rand Inst
Published: May 11 2023
Pages: 602
Weight: 1.92
Height: 1.34 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Based on a lecture course given by Leonard Peikoff in 1972, this book provides essential knowledge for everyone whose life pursuits are threatened by our culture's widespread irrationality. To fight for your values in a world such as ours, you must regard yourself as a psychotherapist of an entire culture, states Dr. Peikoff in his opening lecture. Its present state at any given time cannot be understood except as an outgrowth from its past. The errors of today are built on the errors of the last century, and they in turn on the previous, and so on back to the childhood of the Western world, which is ancient Greece.

For example, he says, the phenomenon of progressive education can be explained only by reference to John Dewey: But Dewey simply applied to education the principles of William James, and James made an obvious deduction from Hegel, and Hegel is a minor variant on Kant, and Kant was trying to answer Hume, who was the last consistent consequence of the

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