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Title: muddled survey
Review: Though exceptionally well written, the author never can seem to decide if he wants to write a survey book on the history of philosophy, of if he wants to offer up his own brand of philosophizing and also weigh in in a philosophical way on what he thinks of certain philosophers of the past, or both. Sometimes he does the former, sometimes the latter, sometimes both. He doesn't pull it off and doesn't even seem to be aware that this is what he's doing. Nowhere is this exemplified at its worst than his tendentious treatment of the so-called sophists, for whom in a very peculiar way he tries to offer an apology, and of the skeptics, whom he lumps together in a lamentably one-dimensional way. This book is worth reading, and hopefully will inspire someone else to write an even more commendable book of this type.
