The Problems of Philosophy

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CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, May 22, 2017 - Philosophy - 102 pages
In 'The Problems of Philosophy' Bertrand Russell attempts to create a brief and accessible guide to the problems of philosophy. Russell guides the reader through the distinction between "knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description" and introduces important theories of Plato, Aristotle, René Descartes, David Hume, John Locke, Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and others to lay the foundation for philosophical inquiry by general readers and scholars alike.

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Bertrand Russell (18 May 1872 - 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist and Nobel laureate.

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