Slate Live with Anthony Gottlieb and Laura Miller

Wednesday, October 26, 2016 7:30 pmCentral LibraryThe author of the classic The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought. Western philosophy is now two and a half millennia old, but much of it came in just two staccato bursts, each lasting only about 150 years. In his landmark survey of Western philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance, The Dream of Reason, Anthony Gottlieb documented the first burst, which came in the Athens of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.
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