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A Short History of Philosophy: Forty Lectures on Western Philosophy Nigel Warburton139k Wordscompleted "A Short History of Philosophy" is a vivid introductory book on philosophy. The author selects 40 themes from the 2,500-year history of the West, and uses a story of about 3,000 words for each theme to introduce the main contributions to human thought by 52 philosophers, from Socrates the "questioner" to Peter Singer, the "modern gadfly". This reflects the development of Western philosophy and the main issues discussed, such as how we should live, whether God exists, how we understand the extern 254Reads9.3Score138Shelves