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Great Thinkers, Great Ideas: An Introduction to Western Thought

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This book is essentially a formalization of the notes from a course that Mr. Falcone gave for many years as a high-level senior elective at my high school. Although it is not the same without the outwardly sarcastic (but actually friendly and constructive) commentary, pointed questions, and general banter with which he accompanied the presentation of these ideas in person to often-too-smug but nevertheless impressionable 17-to-18-year-olds, it is still great. As the previous reviewer said, open it up to a random page and you'll learn something interesting. This puts it in a league with the annual Baseball Prospectus volume, which is high praise indeed from me, and Mr. Falcone manages to do so with a subject on a considerably higher intellectual plane. :-> Seriously, I am now a professor, and not of philosophy, and over 30 years removed from Mr. Falcone's class, and I still find new ways every year to weave the insights in this book into research projects and class sessions on a surprising number of topics. Be the first on your block to discover this gem of a teacher!

this book gives breif histories on many great thinkers an their idea`s. straight to the point in an often too wordy subject of philosophy. open to any page and read. how many books can you say that about?