Will Durant (together with his wife, Ariel) is today best known for the magnificent accomplishment The Complete Story of Civilization (which I find to be selling today for the remarkable price of $99.99 for the Kindle version, and while there is no argument that the work is mammoth and should bring a respectable price, still this is the highest price I have ever seen for a Kindle book).
He also wrote The Story of Philosophy, which became a bestseller and which provided Durant with the financial wherewithal to leave teaching and devote his efforts to writing what evolved into the eleven volume Story of Civilization and was written over a span of four decades.
The volume here, Philosophy and the Social Problem, was actually his first book and was written as Durant was working on his doctorate in philosophy at Columbia University, in 1917. He presented his viewpoint that philosophy "had not grown because it avoided the actual problems of society" (quote taken from the wiki article on Will Durant).
This is a very readable and straightforward statement of his view regarding philosophy, and a worthwhile stand-alone book as well as an interesting supplement to his other works, particularly the Story of Philosophy.
With respect to Kindle editions of this book, and noticing one other reviewer who seems to have received a poor quality Kindle edition, I can report that the version I have myself, published by Didactic Press, is formatted perfectly for Kindle and illustrated, with working table of contents and so forth. There are three Kindle versions presently listed on Amazon, and I can't speak for the other versions, but this particular one is perfectly fine.
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Utterly brilliant. I came to this book more or less ...
