The Story of Thought: The Essential Guide to the History of Western Philosophy by Bryan Magee (PDF)

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⭐A interesting introduction to various philosophical thoughts. An awesome way to prepare yourself for college-level humanities courses.

⭐Outstanding book. Great Illustrations ..this book should be used a sociology or history text in high school or college. Very interesting..it ties history together in a way that really keeps it interesting.Highly recommend this book!!

⭐Excellent

⭐Lots of knowledge and formatted timeline to understand son of the ways our ways of thinking changed throughout time. Great

⭐I found myself pleasantly surprised by this book. It’s ginormous in size, with big glossy pictures, so I assumed it would likely be fluff. But I found the material to be a lot more in depth than I expected, giving good backgrounds on many of the philosophers lives as well as their ideas. And the pictures are quite lively and go well with the book.This is strictly an into for the layman book though. If you want to know the very most detailed stuff, keep looking. IF you want a nice history up until about the 1960’s or 70’s, then this is for you. I would have liked to see more returning to a timeline to continually give more context to the current material by showing lineage to past material, but it’s still done relatively well. Also, it’s really more about the old philosophers, virtually covering nothing after 1980, and a lot has happened. It could’ve also done a bit better covering political philosophy, which it only touches on by talking about Marx and Hobbes. Even certain people like Locke have their direct political ties downplayed, presented more as just a series of ideas.All in all though, very nice coffee table book.

⭐The Story of Thought packs a lot of information into a manageably-sized book. Magee does a great job of balancing the various aspects of the history of philosophy that may be of interest to different readers. Each philosopher is covered in a section of a few pages outlining the thinker’s major ideas, but also containing sidebars with famous quotes, major works, related topics and historical notes. The book is organized chronologically and philosophers are grouped into intellectual movements, introduced and expanded by insets. This format allows the book to be used as a point reference on a single thinker or school of thought, but also reads well from cover to cover as the “story of thought”. If you are looking for a good introduction to philosophy, it would be hard to find a more complete, accessible, and universally appealing resource.

⭐I have used this book to get some quick information on philosophers that fellow students would mention in class that I had never heard of. Magee does not go into much detail on each entry, but there is enough information there to acquaint yourself with a given philosopher and his ideas as well as the time period in which he/she lived. The book can also be a life saver when you need just a snip of information to support an idea in a research paper.

⭐I bought this not realizing it is a retitling of Story of Philosophy which I had bought at about the same time for my brother. I must say I agree with the majority opinion that this is an admirable introduction. I think the format helps. There is a need at times to ponder what has been read or to reread. The picture book format encourages this in a way that a plain text format never could. There is so much more about this book to admire.I ordered a further copy of Story of Philosophy for myself before this book arrived and I discovered my error. (The newer version had been shrunk to about 80% of its former size. It’s still no pocket book but you get to improve your mind and save the planet.)

⭐The late great Bryan Magee’s best work

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