In the spring of 1672, German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz arrived in Paris, home of France's two greatest philosopher-theologians of the period, Antoine Arnauld and Nicolas de Malebranche. The meeting of these three men represents a profoundly important moment in the history of philosophical and religious thought. In "The Best of All Possible Worlds"...(展开全部)

In the spring of 1672, German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz arrived in Paris, home of France's two greatest philosopher-theologians of the period, Antoine Arnauld and Nicolas de Malebranche. The meeting of these three men represents a profoundly important moment in the history of philosophical and religious thought. In "The Best of All Possible Worlds"...(展开全部)

Optimists believe this is the best of all possible worlds. And pessimists fear that might really be the case. But what is the best of all possible worlds? How do we define it? This question has preoccupied philosophers and theologians for ages, but there was a time, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when scientists and mathematicians felt they could provide the a...(展开全部)

Optimists believe this is the best of all possible worlds. And pessimists fear that might really be the case. But what "is" the best of all possible worlds? How do we define it? Is it the world that operates the most efficiently? Or the one in which most people are comfortable and content? Questions such as these have preoccupied philosophers and theologians for ages, but there...(展开全部)

Optimists believe this is the best of all possible worlds. And pessimists fear that might really be the case. But what "is" the best of all possible worlds? How do we define it? Is it the world that operates the most efficiently? Or the one in which most people are comfortable and content? Questions such as these have preoccupied philosophers and theologians for ages, but there...(展开全部)

Optimists believe this is the best of all possible worlds. And pessimists fear that might really be the case. But what is the best of all possible worlds? How do we define it? This question has preoccupied philosophers and theologians for ages, but there was a time, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when scientists and mathematicians felt they could provide the a...(展开全部)

威尔?杜兰特（Will Durant，1885—1981），美国作家、哲学家、历史学家，普利策奖（1968年）、美国总统自由勋章（1977年）获得者。 早年与胡适均曾师从美国实用主义哲学家杜威，1917年获哥伦比亚大学博士学位，前期著作以《哲学的故事》一书畅销成名。此后著作亦以其鲜明主张的自由和公平，赢得东方读者包括亚洲首位诺贝尔文学奖得主泰戈尔的尊重。后半生更以莫大的毅力和勇气撰写《文明的故事》，超级马拉松般持续近半世纪，曾环球考察实地历史（包括广东、上海等地），*后一段写作行程幸有金婚伴侣杜兰特夫人执笔加入，终于留下这一部传世之作。 杜兰特博士亦可谓20世纪*会讲故事的人，讲完了“哲学的故事”，再讲“文明的故事”。终其一生，他都热情地致力于将哲学和知识从学术的象牙塔中解放出来，化复杂为易懂，我们读者获益良多。 他说，历史的教训，就是我们总也记不住...(展开全部)

The Story of Philosophy chronicles the ideas of the great thinkers, the economic and intellectual environments which influenced them, and the personal traits and adventures out of which each philosophy grew.

The Story of Philosophy chronicles the ideas of the great thinkers, the economic and intellectual environments which influenced them, and the personal traits and adventures out of which each philosophy grew.

在线阅读本书 Set in the volatile Paris summer of 1938, The Age of Reason follows two days in the life of Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher, and his circle in the cafés and bars of Montparnasse. Mathieu has so far managed to contain sex and personal freedom in conveniently separate compartments. But now he is in trouble, urgently trying to raise 4,000 francs to procure a s...(展开全部)