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The Greatest Thinkers: The Thirty Minds That Shaped Our Civilization

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There is nothing more powerful than an idea in the mind of man. At some point in time the thinking of a single man puts things together in a new way and an idea is born. That idea can change the world and the lives of everyone living in the world. Something as insubstantial as thinking, someone as unimportant as a single person, can have this effect. That is the fascination of thinking and ideas. This book is about the greatest thinkers-the minds that have shaped our civilisation. Essays on 30 great thinkers-Edward de Bono's individual selection-are set in the context of the history of Western thought. From Moses, through such diverse figures as Jesus, Columbus, Descartes, Marx and Freud, to Sartre, the book ranges across the wide field of human achievement and perhaps, surprisingly, includes a few philosophers. A particularly original features of the book is the visualisation of each thinker's achievement and the way it changed the existing line of thought. The book is fully illustrated with portraits and other documentary material.

.An excellent overview regarding some of the most basic thinking to very complex and how societies accept or reject logic vs. superstition.