Great Conversation A Historical Introduction to Philosophy

By David R Morrow, Norman Melchert, David R. Morrow

Book Overview

Tracing the exchange of ideas among history's key philosophers, The Great Conversation: A Historical Introduction to Philosophy, Eighth Edition, provides a generous selection of excerpts from major philosophical works and makes them more easily understandable to students with lucid and engaging explanations. Extensive cross-referencing shows students how philosophers respond appreciatively or critically to the thoughts of other philosophers. The Great Conversation, Eighth Edition, is also available in two separate volumes to suit your course needs: The Great Conversation: Volume I: Pre-Socratics through Descartes, Eighth Edition The Great Conversation: Volume II: Descartes through Derrida and Quine, Eighth Edition This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0767420381
• ISBN13: 9780767420389
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Length: 28 Pages
• Weight: 3.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 7.5" x 1.5"

Customer Reviews

Excellent overview - highly recommended for majors and for anyone who wants to know more about the h

This book provides a highly readable and accessible introduction to some of the major participants and their important contributions to the historical and ongoing conversation that is philosophy. Philosophy, as it developed in the Western tradition, is not a set of doctrines or ideas; it is, rather, a kind of ongoing conversation that began with the ancient Greeks and continues into the present. It turns out there are certain...

Excellent!

This textbook is comprehensive in covering a broad historical overview of philosophy from ancient Greece through modern 20th-21st century contemporary philosophers. Highly recommended for anyone who would like to know more of the history behind philosophy and how we have come to think and believe what we do.

The just-right philosophy book

A professor of mine in college assigned this book for a class, and it quickly became my favorite book of all time and remains so a decade later. I have what I would consider a sizable passion for philosophy, but I found taking a survey of the great philosophers rather difficult. Reading the primary, original texts are often opaque and dense at best (and there is no way one can read everything, even by a single philosopher),...