{"id":189680,"date":"2024-05-18T21:36:24","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T02:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/a-history-of-western-philosophy"},"modified":"2024-05-18T21:36:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T02:36:24","slug":"a-history-of-western-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/a-history-of-western-philosophy","title":{"rendered":"A History of Western Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-history-of-western-philosophy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty \u2014 a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>- Bertrand Russell (1972 \u2014 1970) <i>A <i>History of Western Philosophy<\/i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk\/Biographies\/Russell\/\">https:\/\/mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk\/Biographies\/Russell\/<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The book was written during the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Second_World_War\" class=\"\" title=\"Second World War\">Second World War<\/a>, having its origins in a series of lectures on the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_philosophy\" title=\"History of philosophy\">history of philosophy<\/a> that Russell gave at the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barnes_Foundation\" title=\"Barnes Foundation\">Barnes Foundation<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philadelphia\" title=\"Philadelphia\">Philadelphia<\/a> during 1941 and 1942.<sup id= cite_ref-3 class= reference>[2]<\/sup> Much of the historical research was done by Russell\u2019s third wife <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patricia_Russell_(nee_Spence)\" class=\"\" title=\"Patricia Russell (nee Spence)\">Patricia<\/a>. In 1943, Russell received an advance of $3000 from the publishers, and between 1944 and 1945 he wrote the book while living at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bryn_Mawr_College\" title=\"Bryn Mawr College\">Bryn Mawr College<\/a>. The book was published in 1946 in the United Kingdom and a year later in the US. It was re-set as a \u2018new edition\u2019 in 1961, but no new material was added. Corrections and minor revisions were made to printings of the British first edition and for 1961\u2019s new edition; no corrections seem to have been transferred to the American edition (even Spinoza\u2019s birth year remains wrong).<\/p>\n<p><b>Summary [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=A_History_of_Western_Philosophy&action=edit&section=2\" title=\"Edit section: Summary\"> edit<\/a> ]<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The work is divided into three books, each of which is subdivided into chapters; each chapter generally deals with a single philosopher, school of philosophy, or period of time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/a-history-of-western-philosophy\">Continue reading \u201cA History of Western Philosophy\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty \u2014 a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.\u201d \u2014 Bertrand Russell (1972 \u2014 1970) A History of Western Philosophy https:\/\/mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk\/Biographies\/Russell\/ The book was written during the Second World War, having its origins in a series of lectures on the history of philosophy that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}