Title: Gaping holes and flagrant prejudices
Product review: Unfortunately, this is probably the best introduction to philosophy available in the mass market. The book was the basis for a PBS series, which also helped its popularity.The author ignores religious philosophers completely. Augustine, Ambrose, and Aquinas are barely mentioned. They are not in style today, but they were three of the major forces in Western civilization. Far too much attention is paid to David Hume, and Russian philosophy (Berdyaev, Soloviev) is ignored.I think the author wanted to show how the atheistic, materialistic doctrines of Marx and Sartre were derived through Descartes and Hume from Plato and Aristotle. An interesting thesis, but hardly the basis for an introductory text in philosophy.
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