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Cover, Will Durant, Philosophy and the Social Problem

(Review) by F. W. Coker of « Philosophy and the Social Problem » by Will Durant.

The purpose of this book can best be stated in the words of the author’s opening paragraph. It is “to show: first, that the social problem has been the basic concern of many of the greater philosophers; second, that an approach to the social problem through philosophy is the first condition of even a moderately Lire la suite

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(Review) by H. W. Wright of « Philosophy and the Social Problem » by Will Durant.

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The ethical theory on which the argument of this book is based is that virtue is intelligence because intelligence gives foresight and makes possible the coordination of human desires. This is a well-known and perfectly respectable view, as old as Socrates, whom the author accepts as the fount of all wisdom in matters ethical. A

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(Review) Nietzsche, The Thinker.

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Wilbur Marshall Urban’s Review[1] Perhaps the most melancholy phase of the storm and stress through which the English-speaking peoples have been passing is the Nietzsche horror which seems to have taken possession of them body and soul. It was not so long ago that Mr. Gilbert Chesterton, with that finality which so easily besets him, told us that the ‘superman’ makes any discussion absurd into which he enters, and most of us were well pleased with this sign of robust English sense. We were told that art is the last refuge of the overman and, never having taken art

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