The Great Philosophers: An Introduction to Western Philosophy

6 best books like The Great Philosophers: An Introduction to Western Philosophy (Bryan Magee): The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers, Meditations on First Philosophy, The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, The Philosophers Toolkit: A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and Methods, שלום לקנאים, In a Grove

The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

Author	Will Durant
ISBN	0671739166

A brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the great philosophers—Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell, Santayana, James, and Dewey—The Story of Philosophy is one of the great books of our time. Few write...

Meditations on First Philosophy

Author	René Descartes
ISBN	0872201929

Meditationes de prima philosophia = Meditations on First Philosophy, René Descartes
Meditations on First Philosophy is a philosophical treatise written by René Descartes first published in Latin in 1641. The book is made up of six meditations, in which Descartes first discards all belief...

The Oxford Companion to Philosophy

Author	Ted Honderich
ISBN	0198661320

Philosophy can be intriguing--and at times baffling. It deals with the central problems of the human condition--with important questions of free will, morality, life after death, the limits of logic and reason--though often in rather esoteric terms. Now, in The Oxford Companion to Philosophy,...

The Philosophers Toolkit: A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and Methods

Author	Julian Baggini
ISBN	0631228748

I've been looking about for a good reference-work on the conceptual tools used in philosophy, and even a bit curious about the tools used by those often dismissed as philosophical cranks.

This book is well-organized and well-describes, in the limits imposed by its size, the methods and ideas...

שלום לקנאים

Author

Amos Oz

הדפים האלה נכתבו גם, ואולי בעיקר, אל קוראים שדעותיהם שונות מדעותיו של עמוס עוז.
הם נכתבו מתוך תחושת דחיפות, מתוך דאגה, ובמיוחד מתוך אמונה בכך שעתיד טוב יותר...

In a Grove

Author

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

"In a Grove" (藪の中, Yabu no Naka?) is a short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, first appearing in the January 1922 edition of the Japanese literature monthly Shinchō. Akira Kurosawa used this story as the basis for his award-winning movie Rashōmon.

"In a Grove" is an early modernist...