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I use this as the intro text for a high school philosophy class and though i disagree with the interpretations of various philo...  Read More


In keeping with the spirit of the book ill keep this review short and end here


The book begins with the provocativeness of the major greek philosopher socrates moving on to his pupil plato’s metaphor of the...  Read More

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Some of the hardest concepts are explained in laymans language

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    good, great, western, short and little.
  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
  • Our engine has determined that the review content quality is high and informative.
  • Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
  • This product had a total of 642 reviews as of our last analysis date on Feb 14 2022.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Warburton manages to grab some of the best insights of great philosophers and bring them to the bloodflow of any intellectually curious reader outside of the narrow confines of contemporary philosophy


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    A personal view of the human history by a scholar who knows history deeply in a informal language


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    This would be a good place to start if you want to get back into the philosophy you might have studied as an undergrad in an intro class


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Enough meat on the bone here to be useful but not enough to put you to sleep


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The author however does leave his role as dispassionate narrator when he dismisses anyone who believes in god as an idiot and inserts a chapter on darwin even though hes not a philosopher


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Good for the beginner but also the enthusiast looking for a refresher to pull their knowledge together


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Im not sure yet if it will click for my 12 yr old


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    As any other list the philosophers included and left over are based on the criteria of the author

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