The Dream of Reason
Subtitle: history of Western philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance
Edition: First American ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780393323658
Copyright date: 2000
Notes: "First American edition 2000. First published as a Norton paperback 2002." - T.p. verso.
A New York Times Notable Book, a Los Angeles Times Best Book, and a Times Literary Supplement Best Book of 2001.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part one.; title: The archetypes : the Milesians; title: The harmony of the world : the Pythagoreans; title: The man who searched for himself : Heraclitus; title: The truth about nothing : Parmenides; title: The ways of paradox : Zeno; title: Love and strife : Empedocles; title: Mind and matter : Anaxagoras; title: He who laughs last : Democritus; title: Opening Pandora's box : The Sophists; title: Part two.; title: Philosophy's martyr : Socrates and the Socratics; title: The republic of reason : Plato; title: The master of those who know : Aristotle; title: Part three.; title: Three roads to tranquility : Epicureans, Stoics & Sceptics; title: The haven of piety : from late antiquity to the Renaissance