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Anthony Gottlieb

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Anthony Gottlieb is a British writer, former Executive Editor of The Economist, historian of ideas, and the author of The Dream of Reason. He was educated at Cambridge University and has held visiting fellowships at All Souls College, Oxford, and Harvard University. He has taught at the CUNY Graduate Center and the New School in New York, and been a visiting scholar at New York University and fellow at the Cullman Centre for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. He is a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities and the series editor of The Routledge Guides to the Great Books.

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	In Praise of Idleness and other essays by Bertrand Russell, Anthony Gottlieb (Preface), Howard Woodhouse (Introduction) 4.01 avg rating — 5,436 ratings — published 1935 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance 4.08 avg rating — 1,801 ratings — published 2000 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy 4.05 avg rating — 1,161 ratings — published 2016 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Routledge Guidebook to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (The Routledge Guides to the Great Books) by Robert Stern, Anthony Gottlieb (Series Editor) 3.78 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 2001 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Socrates 3.62 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 1997 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Routledge Guidebook to Heidegger's Being and Time (The Routledge Guides to the Great Books) by Stephen Mulhall, Anthony Gottlieb (Series Editor) 3.96 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 1996 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Routledge Guidebook to Descartes' Meditations (The Routledge Guides to the Great Books) by Gary Hatfield, Anthony Gottlieb (Series Editor) 3.92 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2002 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Routledge Guidebook to Plato's Republic (The Routledge Guides to the Great Books) by Nickolas Pappas, Anthony Gottlieb (Series Editor) 3.48 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1995 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Routledge Guidebook to Plato's Republic by Nickolas Pappas, Anthony Gottlieb (Series Editor) 3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“A small but typical example of how ‘philosophy’ sends out new shoots is to be found in the case of Georg Cantor, a nineteenth-century German mathematician. His research on the subject of infinity was at first written off by his scientific colleagues as mere ‘philosophy’ because it seemed so bizarre, abstract and pointless. Now it is taught in schools under the name of set-theory.”
― Anthony Gottlieb, The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance

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“There were three main new schools of thought: the Epicureans, the Stoics and the Sceptics. On the whole, if an Epicurean said one thing, a Stoic would say the opposite and a Sceptic would refuse to commit himself either way.”
― Anthony Gottlieb, The Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance

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“A critic of the Bible who was more radical than Hobbes was Isaac La Peyrère (1596–1676), a French heretic who believed that the world would soon be run by a Jewish messiah acting in partnership with the king of France. La Peyrère was apparently of Marrano origin and probably met Spinoza. He argued that the Bible offered not an account of human history but only an account of the history of the Jews; that there were other men before Adam (in China, for example); and that the flood was merely a little local difficulty in Palestine. Spinoza”
― Anthony Gottlieb, The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy

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