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Title: A PASSION FOR WISDOM
A VERY BRIEF HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
By: Professor Robert C. Solomon, Kathleen Marie Higgins
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0195112091
ISBN 13: 9780195112092
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Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC
Pub. date: 1 January, 1999
Pages: 160
Description: Perfect for readers eager to acquire a basic familiarity with the history of philosophy but intimidated by the task, A Passion for Wisdom is a lively, accessible, and highly enjoyable tour of the world's great ideas.
Synopsis: This is a greatly abridged adaptation of Solomon and Higgins' 1995 OUP publication, A Short History of Philosophy. As in the longer book, the authors offer a guided tour of the full panorama of philosophy. Here, however, they concentrate on a few highlights of world philosophical history, offering the general reader a quick and painless introduction to the world's great philosophers.
Publication: US
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
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