num_pages: 352
description: The author turns the history of philsophy on its head, re-examining the basic assumption of philosophical thought from the pre-Socratic philosophers to Erasmus.
language: English
title: The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance
titlecomplete: The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance
characters: Parmenides, Johannes Kepler, Aristotle (philosopher), Nicolaus Copernicus, Heraclitus of Ephesus, Pythagoras, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Plato, Robert Boyle, Galileo Galilei, Immanuel Kant, Zeno, Homer (Greek Poet), Lucretius, Socrates (philosopher), Francis Bacon (philosopher), Augustine of Hippo, Democritus, Epicurus, René Descartes, Anaximander, Thomas Aquinas, Anaxagoras, Empodecles
genres: Medieval, Classics, Humanities, History, Science, Philosophy, Greece, Ancient History, Nonfiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 1851
publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc