Oh, joy! I finally get to dig into the actual disciplines, starting with the most ambitious, philosophy. More ambitious even than theology, because it also undertakes to study the nature of God, and without benefit of any kind of revelation or Scripture! As I mentioned before, I am reading books from our church library whenever possible, so my selection for this decade is Will Durant's classic introduction The Story of Philosophy. It is available at just about every librare on the title page, and apparently many of the newer print editions are also not very well-made. It is available at just about every library in the old-fashioned, 450-page version.
There are many introductions to philosophy available; I think this one is still attractive because Durant is opinionated and therefore less dry than his subject might suggest. Of course some of his opinions may seem dated, and his choice of whom to cover is a bit idiosyncratic. He himself apologizes for omitting all Eastern philosophers, and of course he can't cover any developments in philosophy past 1920, the date of the book. But the ones he does include, being dead, are unlikely to have changed much in the last 100 years, so I look forward to reviewing them over the next few weeks.
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