- Mass Market Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (31 Jan 1985)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140221670
- ISBN-13: 978-0140221671
- Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 13 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,157,347 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Presents a unified sequence of essays each of which examines metaphysical solutions to their best advantage.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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T.L.S.Sprigge provides a useful overview of the main strands of Western philosophical thought. The eight essays are presented with academic impartiality and without giving the reader the sense that Sprigge is advocating any one view (though his own theory of existence is made plain). While Sprigge makes every effort to use plain English there is no escaping the complexity of some of the concepts that he is explaining. A friendly tip would be to disregard the order of the chapters, reading and re-reading them in different orders is more likely to result in some, if not total, enlightenment. A good start for people going beyond faith, well referenced for further reading.
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Not what I expected
25 April 2009
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Because Sprigge has an academic reputation as a serious philosophical commentator on certain issues in British Idealism and Santayana studies, I suppose I expected a serious, high level treatment of the problem of existence.
Instead, what Sprigge has written is a very superficial freshman-college level introduction to the philosophical problem of existence, organized by philosopher or school of thought. This is all fine - such a book has its place. It just isn't what I was expecting.
Add to that that the book is a bit unfashionable and dated at any rate (written at a time when the obligatory nod to continental philosophy involved a recognition of Sartre).
It is a fine book as written, as long as you know what you are buying.
Instead, what Sprigge has written is a very superficial freshman-college level introduction to the philosophical problem of existence, organized by philosopher or school of thought. This is all fine - such a book has its place. It just isn't what I was expecting.
Add to that that the book is a bit unfashionable and dated at any rate (written at a time when the obligatory nod to continental philosophy involved a recognition of Sartre).
It is a fine book as written, as long as you know what you are buying.
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