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The Uses and Abuses of Philosophical Biographies

Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2015 10:24 pm
by Philosophy Now
Tim Madigan on the Lives of the Great Saints (not!).

https://philosophynow.org/issues/35/The ... iographies

Re: The Uses and Abuses of Philosophical Biographies

Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2015 12:11 am
by Dalek Prime
I had planned on reading Durant's The Story of Philosophy for another historical overview, but as I skimmed it, noted his criticism of philosophical positions he did not agree with, and dropped it as overly biased.

Re: The Uses and Abuses of Philosophical Biographies

Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2015 8:11 am
by Dubious
Dalek Prime wrote:I had planned on reading Durant's The Story of Philosophy for another historical overview, but as I skimmed it, noted his criticism of philosophical positions he did not agree with, and dropped it as overly biased.
I read it many moons ago. Far prefer it to Bertrand Russell's The History of Western Philosophy. The subject invites bias since it's almost impossible for the writer, at least to some extent not to assert his own opinions when confronting those of others. History is even worse in the way it's often represented especially 20th century history.