AC Grayling on the history of philosophy

AC Grayling ranges through 2,500 years of history to explore the impact of great thinkers like Aristotle, Immanuel Kant and Bertrand Russell

A C Grayling. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)

July 4, 2019 at 3:46 pm

Author and philosopher AC Grayling ranges through 2,500 years of history to explore the impact of great thinkers like Aristotle, Immanuel Kant and Bertrand Russell and to show how philosophers have guided and been guided by the great changes of their times

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