The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers.
"Life means for us constantly to transform into light and flame all that we are or meet with": Will Durant's The Story of Philosophy; inscribed by him
The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers.
DURANT, Will.
Item Number: 123634
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1926.
First edition of Durant’s classic work on the great philosophers. Octavo, bound in full blue cloth with a black morocco spine label lettered in gilt, frontispiece portrait of Socrates. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Cecilia Sheridan from Will Durant.” In near fine condition. Rare and desirable signed.
In The Story of Philosophy, Durant profiles several prominent Western philosophers and their ideas, beginning with Socrates and Plato and on through Friedrich Nietzsche in an attempt to show the interconnection of their ideas and how one philosopher's ideas informed the next.
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