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ARCHETYPES OF WISDOM, 9E uses a historical approach to bring philosophy to life through lively narratives, engaging illustrations, and a student-friendly writing style. Using its signature conversational prose, the textbook guides students through the lives and works of history’s greatest philosophers, drawing from both canonical primary sources and the latest philosophical critiques.
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Author Douglas J. Soccio presents students, academics, and general interest readers with the ninth edition of his examination of major philosophers from antiquity through the twentieth century. The author has organized the main body of his text in eighteen chapters devoted to the Lao-tzu, Confucius, and Buddha, the presocratic sophos, Protagoras, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius, Thomas Aquinas, Ren Descartes, David Hume, and a wide variety of other related subjects. Douglas J. Soccio is the author of many philosophy textbooks and a former faculty member of Shasta College, California. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
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