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Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition

Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition

Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 3rd Edition

This course brings together 12 professors for 84 lectures on more than 60 of the most important thinkers in history. Enjoy the benefit of learning from the finest scholar-teachers active today while you study the key ideas of influential philosophers from the pre-Socratics to the Postmodernists. The curriculum is comprehensive, incisive, and thought-provoking—in short, an intellectual experience to be treasured.

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