The Story of Philosophy
Subtitle: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
Publisher: Tandem Library
Published: October 1999
Language: eng
Format: School & Library Binding
ISBN-13: 9780808577690
Subjects: Philosophy; General; Philosophers; Reference; History
First sentence: IF YOU look at a map of Europe you will observe that Greece is a skeleton-like hand stretching its crooked fingers out into the Mediterranean Sea, South of it lies the great island of Crete, from which those grasping fingers captured, in the second millennium before Christ, the beginnings of civilization and culture.