Name: A History of Philosophy
ISBN: 9780809100651

Frederick Charles Copleston

A detailed study, designed for use in Catholic seminaries, of classical philosophy, stressing the theories of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and their followers

Greece and Rome

A History of Philosophy

Evaluates important elements of Western philosophy from its classical origins to the present.

Zeke Taylor

Might need to turn around and read this again since I’ve gone through it over the course of two or so years. Still want to have German Idealism repeatedly presented until I really know about it.

I wouldn’t recommend this volume if a person has no prior acquaintance with some of these philosophers, as was somewhat the case when I began. At least its presentation didn’t easily click for me. Idealism in this book seems like it’s not simply a different way of looking at things in the contemporary sense of glossing over recognizable ideas as if in a religion or philosophy 1 college course, but almost as if it’s in an almost incommunicable manner of thought and expression insofar as why it was so influential and convincing, when it just sounds like interesting language. It might require a well laid out bridge between Idealism and contemporary thinking and speech which this book doesn’t accomplish for beginners.

But I enjoyed this book and I hope at some point to read the other volumes. And if anyone is reading this, I don’t want to make it sound as if this book is a huge undertaking. I believe it’s 400+ pages, and it took me a couple of years due to long absences of not reading it.

A History of Philosophy Greece and Rome

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