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Richard H. Popkin

British philosopher

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history of philosophy

  • Plutarch
    In Western philosophy: Ways of ordering the history

    …Erasmus to Descartes (1960) by Richard H. Popkin (1923–2005). In the second type of ordering, the historian, impressed by the producers of ideas as much as by the ideas themselves—that is, with philosophers as agents—reviews the succession of great philosophical personalities in their rational achievements. This ordering has produced the…

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