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A Historical Introduction to Philosophy: Texts and Interactive Guides

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The way the editorial review summarized the material in this textbook as "archaic and difficult" pretty much says it all. If you are an instructor looking for a Philosophy textbook for an introductory Philosophy class please keep looking! This is by far the worst textbook I have seen out there. Other texts do a better job of explaining and summarizing the ancient texts than this textbook does, as well as providing a simpler and more concise historical background.

This was the textbook for a Philosophy 1000 class I just finished. Reading it all but guarantees that students will never take another philosophy class.

It is a dry, boring, timid, and tepid exploration of the history of philosophy. It leads you to the conclusions they want, and although it obsessively focuses on the subject of God, it treats the subject with kid gloves. Maybe because it was written by professors at the University of Tennessee in Martin, they didn't want to offend the sensibilities of the local born-again christians.

The worst philosophy book I have ever read.