GREAT MINDS OF THE WESTERN INTELLECTUAL TRADITION Third Edition

Forty-two 45-minute lectures trace European philosophy from its origins in ancient Greece to the modern day. The "great minds" of the title are those influential thinkers who concerned themselves with the purpose, nature, and meaning of virtue, the divine, society, and the beautiful. The various male instructors share two qualities--an enthusiasm for the subject and a way of addressing the mike as if it were a room full of students. Otherwise, they range in style from humorless pedantry to wisecracking informality. Y.R. (c) AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine [Published: AUG/ SEP 04]